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[ The man was said to have been killed in cold blood simply to silence a wagging tongue.]
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[ See Shakespeare's King John, act i., scene i.]
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[ Burton's translation of the Lusiads, vol. ii., p. 425.]
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[ Although Burton began El Islam about 1853, he worked at it years after. Portions of it certainly remind one of Renan's Life of Jesus, which appeared in 1863.]
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[ To some of the beauties of The Arabian Nights we shall draw attention in Chapter 27.]