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{40} The 29th of April.
{41} These are the names given by the Prophet to certain chapters
of the Koran.
{43} It was after the interview which I am talking of, and not
from the Jews themselves, that I learnt this fact.
{44} An enterprising American traveller, Mr. Everett, lately
conceived the bold project of penetrating to the University of
Oxford, and this notwithstanding that he had been in his infancy
(they begin very young those Americans) an Unitarian preacher.
Having a notion, it seems, that the ambassadorial character would
protect him from insult, he adopted the stratagem of procuring
credentials from his Government as Minister Plenipotentiary at the
Court of her Britannic Majesty; he also wore the exact costume of a
Trinitarian. But all his contrivances were vain; Oxford disdained,
and rejected, and insulted him (not because he represented a
swindling community, but) because that his infantine sermons were
strictly remembered against him; the enterprise failed.
{45} The rose-trees which I saw were all of the kind we call
"damask"; they grow to an immense height and size.
{46} A dragoman never interprets in terms the courteous language
of the East.
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