A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Sale, George

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Sale, George (1697?-1736). -- Orientalist, a Kentish man, and practising solicitor. In 1734 he pub. a translation of the Koran. He also assisted in the Universal History, and was one of the correctors of the Arabic New Testament issued by the S.P.C.K.