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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 66
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...Mahomet made the people believe that he would call an hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled...If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will c/o to the hill. So these men, when they have promised great matters and failed most shamefully, yet...
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled":...said, " If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will-go to the hill." So these men, when they have promised great matters, and failed most shamefully,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works

Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...Mahomet made the people believe that he would call an hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled...not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill. So these men, when they have promised great matters and failed most shamefully, yet (if they have the...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled...said, " If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will-go to the hill." So these men, when they have promised great matters, and failed most shamefully,...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - English essays - 1861 - 630 pages
...Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled...again ; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit"abashed, but 1 Pint Vst. Demosth. 11, 18. * Politic, Political; civil. ' Whit. The least degree...
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled...and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit 2 abashed, but i Tlut. Vit. Demnnth. i7, i8. s Politic. Palitienl : ciril. 3 Whit. The, laut degree...
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Penny readings in prose and verse, selected and ed. by J.E. Carpenter, Volume 5

Penny readings - 1866 - 304 pages
...Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled...not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill." So these men, when they have promised great matters, and failed most shamefully, yet (if they have...
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The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Old English Bible Words

Jonathan Eastwood - Bible - 1866 - 586 pages
...laboure. Erasmus, On the Creed, Eng. tr., Pref. Mahomet cald the hill to come to him, againe, and againe ; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit...said ; If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet wil go to the hil. Bacon, Ess. X11. p. 45. Whit is used adverbially like A.-S. wihte, at all. White,...
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The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Old English Bible Words

Jonathan Eastwood - Bible - 1866 - 588 pages
...laboure. Erasmus, On the Creed, Eng. tr., Pref. Mahomet cald the hill to come to him, againe, and againe ; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit...said ; If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet wil go to the hil. Bacon, Ess. XII. p. 45. Whit is used adverbially like A.-S. 2vihte, at all. White,...
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The Cheltonian

Cheltenham College - Endowed public schools (Great Britain) - 1867 - 362 pages
...prophet made the people believe he could call a hill to him — "Why, so can I, and so can any man." «' If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill." What did it matter, one way or the other, the people were equally pleased. Our American brethren, as...
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