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Uth, he could not aticulate a single word,
and fell
senseless to the ground" Nor did his successor, "who was reputed to be
a prince in rhetoric, and an ocean of language," fare much better; for
though he began
fluently, "all of a sudden he stopped for want of a word which did not
occur to him, and thus put an end to his peroration." In this awkward
dilemma, the reputation of the Andalusian rhetoricians was saved by
Mundhir Ibn Said, who not only poured forth a torrent of impromptu
eloquence, but delivered a long ex-tempore poem, "which to this day
stands
unequalled; and Abdurrahman
was so pleased, that he appointed

him preacher and Imam to the great mosque; and some time after, the
office of Kadi-'l-jamah, or supreme judge, being vacant,
he named him to that high post, and
made him besides reader of the Khoran to the mosque of Az-zahra." The
palace of Az-zahra,
where the eyes of the Greeks were dazzled by this costly pageant, is
one of the familiar names of the romance of Spanish history:--it is
known to all the world how Abdurrahman, to gratify the capricious fancy
of a beautiful and beloved mistress, expended millions, and tasked the
labour of thousands, in
erecting on
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