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Title:  The Algerine captive; or, The life and adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill: six years a prisoner among the Algerines. [Three lines from Shakespeare] : Vol. I[-II]. : Published according to act of Congress.
Author: Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826.
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Mollah.So the doctors of your church tell you; but a sensual heaven is no more imputable to us than to you. When the Most Holy condescends to reveal him|self to man in human language, it must be in terms commensurate with our con|ception. The enjoyment of the Houri, those immortal virgins, who will attend the beatified believer; the splendid pa|vilions of the heavens, are all but types and significations of holy joys too sub|lime for man in flesh to conceive of. In your bible, I read, your prophet refers to the time, when he should drink new wine in his father's kingdom. Now would it be candid in me to hastily brand the heav|en of your prophet as sensual, and to rep|resent your faithful in bliss as a club of wine bibbers?Author.But you will allow the pre|eminence of the morality of the sacred scriptures.Mollah.Your scriptures contain many 0