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CHAPTER XXVIII: Destruction Of Paganism
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xvii .-- M.] [Footnote 65: Yet the Pagans of Africa complained, that the times would not allow them to answer with freedom the City of God; nor does St.
Augustin (v.

26) deny the charge.] [Footnote 66: The Moors of Spain, who secretly preserved the Mahometan religion above a century, under the tyranny of the Inquisition, possessed the Koran, with the peculiar use of the Arabic tongue.

See the curious and honest story of their expulsion in Geddes, (Miscellanies, vol.i.p.

1-198.)] [Footnote 67: Paganos qui supersunt, quanquam jam nullos esse credamus, &c.

Cod.Theodos.l.xvi.tit.


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