The Busy Man's Hand-Book

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Chapter VIII — From the Rise of Mahomet, to the Commencement of the Crusades

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Chapter VIII — From the Rise of Mahomet, to the Commencement of the Crusades

CHAPTER VIII: Mahomet

This, then, was the very nick of time most favorable for such a revolution in the world as was undertaken by the wily and daring Mahomet…

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