[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire CHAPTER L: Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants 27/48
94;) the one in the style of a legislator, the other in that of a fanatic.
The public and private motives of Mahomet are investigated by Prideaux (Life of Mahomet, p.
62-64) and Sale, (Preliminary Discourse, p.
124.)] [Footnote 105: The jealousy of Maracci (Prodromus, part iv.p.
33) prompts him to enumerate the more liberal alms of the Catholics of Rome. Fifteen great hospitals are open to many thousand patients and pilgrims; fifteen hundred maidens are annually portioned; fifty-six charity schools are founded for both sexes; one hundred and twenty confraternities relieve the wants of their brethren, &c.
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