Excerpt from Letters Written by a Turkish Spy, Who Lived Five-and-Forty Years Undiscovered at Paris, Vol. 8: Giving an Impartial Account to the Divan at Constantinople of the Most Remarkable Transactions of Europe, and Discovering Several Intrigues and Secrets of the Christian Courts, (Especially of That of France) Continued From the Year 1673 to the Year 1682
As to the ohjefiiomr - Some people, more precife than they need to he, find rfnult °with our Arabian for the feemi'ng lewdhefo of hid fentimentt, and profane expreflions of God and his works, laying, that he writes more like a difciple of Cémeades. And Epicur l'us, than of Mahomet, who taught his followers to think and (peak with profound veneration of the Code. Head, and of all faint: and prophets. They add, that in fome of his letters he feems to banter all religion; whim in others he appears like a hypocrite, extra? gantly devout and zealous, even to the heights of en thnfiafth and divine madnefs.
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