The History of the Jews: From the Earliest Period Down to Modern Times, Volumen3J. Murray, 1883 |
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Página 236 - the God of our Fathers, to whom none can say, ' What doest thou ? ' calls upon us to die for our Law. Death is inevitable ; but we may yet choose whether we will die speedily and nobly, or ignominiously, after horrible torments and the most barbarous usage : my advice is, that we voluntarily render up our souls to our Creator, and fall by our own hands. The...
Página 355 - 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 176 - Penniless, and under the guidance of a goose and a goat, assembled near the city of Treves, a murmur rapidly spread through the camp, that while they were advancing to recover the sepulchre of their...
Página 231 - 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 148 - The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea...
Página 176 - 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 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 the...
Página 398 - Godolphin, when this proposal was made ; and as soon as the agent was gone, pressed him to close with it. Lord Godolphin was not of his opinion. He foresaw that it would provoke two of the most powerful bodies in the nation, the clergy and the merchants ; he gave other reasons too against it ; and, in fine, it was dropped.
Página 358 - Cromwell did on this occasion. When they were all met, he ordered the Jews to speak for themselves. After that he turned to the clergy, who inveighed much against the Jews as a cruel and accursed people. Cromwell, in his ananswer to the clergy, called them
Página 310 - They were permitted to carry away their moveables, excepting gold and silver, for which they were to accept letters of change, or any merchandise not prohibited. Their property they might sell ; but the market was soon glutted, and the coldhearted purchasers waited, till the last instant, to wring from their distress the hardest terms. A contemporary author states, that he saw Jews give 'a house for an ass, and a vineyard for a small quantity of cloth or linen. Yet many of them concealed their gold...