The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶94
The Oriental library of a Frenchman would instruct the most learned mufti of the East; and perhaps the Arabs might not find in a single historian so clear and comprehensive a narrative of their own exploits as that which will be deduced in the ensuing sheets.Read in context ›
Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #735 (Milman edition) — public domain
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