The history of the Jews [by H.H. Milman]. |
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Página 146 - The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea...
Página 356 - Can you really be afraid," said he, "that this mean despised people, should be able to prevail in trade and credit over the merchants of England, the noblest and most esteemed merchants of the whole world!" — Thus he went on, till he had silenced them too; and so was at liberty to grant what he desired to the Jews.
Página 353 - Barabas is a mere monster, brought in with a large painted nose, to please the rabble. He kills in sport, poisons whole nunneries, invents infernal machines. He is just such an exhibition as a century or two earlier might have been played before the Londoners, by the Royal command, when a general pillage and massacre of the Hebrews had been previously resolved on in the cabinet.
Página 318 - Dear beloved brethren in Moses, we have received your letter in which you tell us of the anxieties and misfortunes which you are enduring. We are pierced by as great pain to hear it as yourselves. "The advice of the Grand Satraps and Rabbis is the following: " 1 . As for what you say that the King of France obliges you to become Christians: do it, since you cannot do otherwise...
Página 229 - They supposed that it would be concealed, but our Lord showed that he was a holy martyr. And the monks took him, and buried him with high honour in the minster. And through our Lord he worketh wonderful and manifold miracles, and is called St. William.
Página 174 - In the words of Jewish tradition, no doubt generally faithful in its record of their calamities, " the abominable Germans and French rose up against them, — people of a fierce countenance that have no respect to the persons of the old, neither have they mercy upon the young, — and they said, ' Let us be revenged for our Messiah upon the Jews that are among us, and let us destroy them from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be had no more in remembrance ; so shall they change their glory...
Página 88 - We gave unto the children of Israel the book of the law, and wisdom, and prophecy; and we fed them with good things, and preferred them above all nations; and we gave them plain ordinances concerning the business of religion...
Página 315 - For there were among them who were cast into the isles of the sea upon Provence, a Jew and his old father fainting from hunger, begging bread; and there was no one to break unto him in a strange country. And the man went and sold his little son for bread, to restore the soul of the old man. And it came to pass, when he returned unto his father, that he found him fallen down dead, and he rent his clothes. And he returned unto the baker to take his son, and the baker would not give him back. And he...
Página 6 - The reader at each successive extract from this extraordinary compilation hesitates whether to admire the vein of profound allegorical truth, and the pleasing moral apologue, to smile at the monstrous extravagance, or to shudder at the daring blasphemy. The influence of the Talmud -on European superstitions, opinions, and even literature, remains to, be traced ; .to the Jew the Talmud became the magic circle, within which the national mind patiently laboured for ages in performing the bidding of...
Página 353 - Shylock, in the midst of his savage purpose, is a man. His motives, feelings, resentments, have something human in them. " If you wrong us, shall we not revenge ?" Barabas is a mere monster, brought in with a large painted nose, to please the rabble. He kills in sport, poisons whole nunneries, invents infernal machines. He is just such an exhibition as a century or two earlier might have been played before the Londoners by...