George Sale, The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, translated into English immediately from the original Arabic; with Explanatory Notes, taken from the most approved Commentators. To which is prefixed A Preliminary Discource (1734)

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John Lord Carteret,

Notwithstanding the great hounour and respect generally, and deserysly, paid to the memories of those who have founded states, or obliged a people by the instituion of laws which have made them prosperous and considerable in the world, yet the legislator of the Arabs has been treated in so very different a manner by all who achnowledge not his claim to a divine mission, and by Christians especially, that were not