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| | For History Lovers : Arthur's Classic Novels |
 | | We need not visit Egypt or go so far back in history to encounter crocodile worship, as this can be readily found in France at the end of the last century. |
 | | Say, rather, this Viking, king of the Bays, for it is not an innocent plant; it suggests not merely commerce, but its attendant vices, as if its fibres were the stuff of which pirates spin their yarns. |
 | | The entire first book is devoted to a selective history of the Eastern Church and a denunciation of heresies, concluding with an extensive invective against Mahomet, compounding sex, excrement, and disease. |
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