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mahomet n.= Mohammed.

mahometanism

I could ha been content to ha taken this moor with me , and ha drown d the boy , but there was no venturing to trust him : when he was gone i turn d to the boy , who they call d xury , and said to him , xury , if you will be faithful to me i ll make you a great man , but if you will not stroak our face to be true to me , that is , swear by mahomet and is father s beard , i must throw you into the sea too ; the boy smil d in my face and spoke so innocently that i could mistrust him ; and swore to be faithful to me , and go all over the world with me 前面提到過,那個摩爾小孩名叫馬列司科,但大家都叫他“佐立“ 。那摩爾人走后,我就對他說: “佐立,假如你忠于我,我會使你成為一個出色的人。但如果你不打自己的耳光向我發誓,如果你不憑著穆罕默德起誓效忠于我,我也把你扔到海里去。

The brahmin legends assert that this city is built on the site of the ancient casi , which , like mahomet s tomb , was once suspended between heaven and earth ; though the benares of to - day , which the orientalists call the athens of india , stands quite unpoetically on the solid earth 火車十二點半到達貝拿勒斯,據婆羅門教的傳說,現在的貝拿勒斯是古代卡西城的舊址,卡西城從前就象穆罕默德的陵墓一樣是空懸在天頂和天底之間的。

The traveller waited and watched for some time , and at last he laughed . i see , he said , the mountain will never be brought to mahomet , so all you can do is to aid mahomet to go to the mountain ; i must beg of you to come here “我明白, ”他說, “山是永遠搬不到穆罕默德這邊來的,因此你所能做到的,是幫助穆罕默德走到山那邊去,我得請你到這兒來。 ”

Napoleon is the mahomet of the west , and is worshipped by his commonplace but ambitions followers , not only as a leader and lawgiver , but also as the personification of equality . 拿破侖是西方的穆罕默德,他的那些庸庸碌碌卻又野心勃勃的信徒們很崇拜他,他們不僅把他看作一個領袖和立法者,還把他看作平民的化身。 ”

“ after we had counted our treasures we put them back into the chest and carried them to the gate - way to show them to mahomet singh “我第一個想法是:他們一定和叛兵一伙,這也就是他們突擊的開始。

If the mountain will not come to mahomet , mahomet must go to the mountain 大山從不向穆罕默德移來,穆罕默德只好向大山走去;他若不遷就你,你只好遷就他。