| Jonathan Swift - 1766 - 408 pagina’s
...of us muft be pleafed ; perhaps both, you with an old acquintance, and I with a new one : it is fo well worth taking a journey for> that if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet muft go to the mountain. But before either of our journies are fettled, I defire you would refolve... | |
| Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1766 - 410 pagina’s
...of us muft be pleafed ; perhaps both, you with an old acquintance, and I with a new one : it is fo well worth taking a journey for, that if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet muft go to the mountain. But before either of our journies are fettled, I defire you would refolve... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1766 - 440 pagina’s
...of us muft be pleafed $ perhaps both, you with an old acquaintance, and I with a new one : it is fo well worth taking a journey for, that if the mountain will not come to Makomet, Mahomet muft go to the mountain. But before either of our journeys are fettled, I defire you... | |
| 1814 - 630 pagina’s
...since that of Jerusalem. L. But we admit none other to be Christian churches but those who do own it. the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain. It is like the bed Procrustes made to fit all persons, by stretching those to the length of it who... | |
| 1822 - 494 pagina’s
...observing that a hill which he had called on to approach him continued immoveable, he exclaimed — " Well, if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain." HUMAN SYMPATHY. — Among common accidents, standing on the brink of a precipice, or walking over a... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 628 pagina’s
...is so fair a chance that one of us must be pleased ; perhaps both, you with an old acquaintance, and I with a new one: it is so well worth taking a journey...journeys are settled, I desire you would resolve me one question—whether a man, who thinks himself well where he is, should look out for his house and servants... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 324 pagina’s
..."Mahomet!" repeated Harry. "What do you mean ?" " Do not you know, Harry, the common saying, Since the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain? You were by, Harry, when I read this in our Universal 23 History to mamma. Do not you remember it?"... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 662 pagina’s
..."Mahomet!" repeated Harry. "What do you mean ?" " Do not you know, Harry, the common saying, Since the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain? You were by, Harry, when I read this in our Universal 23 History to mamma. Do not you remember it?"... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1827 - 316 pagina’s
..."Mahomet!" repeated Harry. "What do you mean ?" " Do not you know, Harry, the common saying, Since the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain? You were by, Harry, when I read this in our Universal 23 History to mamma. Do not you remember it?"... | |
| 1842 - 268 pagina’s
...comforted. More, then, than the mere pulpit dnties must be performed ; and here the old proverb, ' If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain,' was most applicable. If the people will not come to the house of God, the minister must go to the people,... | |
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