 | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe - Authors - 1888 - 680 pages
...attendants in ' Amadis/ marvellously evil-favoured), and go seek adventures in the High Tae and Lochmaben. If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain, — so go to Master Ellick, and demand what he means by this procrastination. Tell him that he shall... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 534 pages
...of those forty millions of schemes that hindered him from being good company. I would fain see you here, there is so fair a chance that one of us must...the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must come to the mountain. But before either of our journeys are settled, I desire you would resolve me... | |
 | Robert Thorne - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 538 pages
...succeeded him as Klialif of the Soudan. Mahomet and the Mountain. — The origin of the expression, " If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain," probably is contained in the story that the Arabs demanded from Mahomet some supernatural proofs of... | |
 | Robert Thorne - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 502 pages
...succeeded him as Khali f of the Soudan. Mahomet and the Mountain. — The origin of the expression, " If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain," probably is contained in the story that the Arabs demanded from Mahomet some supernatural proofs of... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Proverbs - 1889 - 362 pages
...so he says ; the fact being that it is too accurate. When a sermon is too true it is too personal. If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain. 260 Proverbs and Quaint Sayings, If the sun shines on me, what matters the moon ? If (!i id's blessing... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1892 - 522 pages
...party will not be a week behind you. Remember we are to be rfood neighbors, as well as neighbors ; and if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain." " Which means, Mr. Bulstrode," said Mary Wallace, with one of her sweet smiles, and one that was as... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1892 - 768 pages
...party will not be a week behind you. Remember we are to be good neighbors as well as neighbors ; and if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain." " Which means, Mr. Bulstrode," said Mary Wallace, with one of her sweet smiles, and one that was as... | |
 | William Ralston Balch - Bookbinding - 1895 - 836 pages
...one, all would be amended. ff the brain plants not corn, it sows thistles. If the cap fit, wear it. IT the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain. If things were to be done twice, all would be wise. If we subdue not our passions, thcywil subdue us.... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1896 - 408 pages
...a short course of one-half year, the usual length of one term at the existing state normal schools. If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain. This should be a normal school on wheels, — one half year in one place, then changing to another.... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1896 - 340 pages
...a short course of one-half year, the usual length of one term at the existing state normal schools. If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain. This should be a normal school on wheels,- — one-half year in one place, then changing to another.... | |
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Remember we are to be good neighbors as well as neighbors ; and if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain. 
