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Von Hammer took liberties with the text which can compare only with those of Lane: he abridged and retrenched till the likeness in places entirely disappeared; he shirked some difficult passages and he misexplained others.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
