6/33 26, 27, 28.) I blush for a respectable prelate (de Poesi Hebraeorum, p. Michaelis; and letter of a late professor in the university of Oxford, p. 15-53,) who justifies and applauds this patriarchal inquisition.] [Footnote 117: D'Herbelot, Bibliot.Orient.p.445.He quotes a particular history of the flight of Mahomet.] [Footnote 118: The Hegira was instituted by Omar, the second caliph, in imitation of the aera of the martyrs of the Christians, (D'Herbelot, p. 444;) and properly commenced sixty-eight days before the flight of Mahomet, with the first of Moharren, or first day of that Arabian year which coincides with Friday, July 16th, A.D.622, (Abulfeda, Vit Moham, c. |