- a variation of Alkoran.
Alcoran
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"I had rather," he says, "believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind."
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
Incorrectly called the Alcoran, l'Alcoran, or il Alcorano, 351.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by James Grey Jackson
The inquisition likewise takes cognizance of such as are accused of being magicians, and of such who read the bible in the common language, the Talmud of the Jews, or the Alcoran of the Mahometans.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
And in the Alcoran; You did not kill them, but God kill'd them; when thou threwest the Darts, it was not thou that threwest them, but God.
From The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Ibn Tufail
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