[Footnote 40: I shall not stop to refute the strange errors
and fancies of Sir William Temple (his Works, vol. iii. p.
371 - 374, octavo edition) and Voltaire (Histoire Generale,
c. xxviii. tom. ii. p. 124, 125, edition de Lausanne)
concerning the division of the Saracen empire. The mistakes
of Voltaire proceeded from the want of knowledge or
reflection; but Sir William was deceived by a Spanish
impostor, who has framed an apocryphal history of the
conquest of Spain by the Arabs.]