Hebrew Humour and Other EssaysLuzac & Company, 1905 - 186 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... religious mysticism , which theory had commonly been accepted by their readers as the only correct and plausible one . These commentators have gone so far as to declare most emphatically that even the " Song of Songs , " that master ...
... religious mysticism , which theory had commonly been accepted by their readers as the only correct and plausible one . These commentators have gone so far as to declare most emphatically that even the " Song of Songs , " that master ...
Pagina 23
... religious point of view . Surely , it could not but gain in popular estimation if its great literary worth attracted more general attention . 1 Ac veluti magno in populo quum saepe coorta est Seditio , saevitque animis ignobile vulgus ...
... religious point of view . Surely , it could not but gain in popular estimation if its great literary worth attracted more general attention . 1 Ac veluti magno in populo quum saepe coorta est Seditio , saevitque animis ignobile vulgus ...
Pagina 24
... religion , and owed its development to religion , so it was among the Jews . The first feeble attempt at archi- tecture , though it is perhaps incorrect to call it by that name , was the erection of the Tabernacle in the wilderness ...
... religion , and owed its development to religion , so it was among the Jews . The first feeble attempt at archi- tecture , though it is perhaps incorrect to call it by that name , was the erection of the Tabernacle in the wilderness ...
Pagina 31
... religion alone that music was performed among the ancient Hebrews : it permeated their whole public and private life . Following the ex- ample of David and Solomon , who had attached to their courts " singing men and singing women " ( 2 ...
... religion alone that music was performed among the ancient Hebrews : it permeated their whole public and private life . Following the ex- ample of David and Solomon , who had attached to their courts " singing men and singing women " ( 2 ...
Pagina 32
... religious element is not entirely excluded from these books , yet they chiefly treat of worldly subjects . Some passages therein contain humorous descriptions of various human characters . The bookworm , the scribbler , the miser , the ...
... religious element is not entirely excluded from these books , yet they chiefly treat of worldly subjects . Some passages therein contain humorous descriptions of various human characters . The bookworm , the scribbler , the miser , the ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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Populaire passages
Pagina 1 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation ; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Pagina 3 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Pagina 16 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Pagina 3 - And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Pagina 12 - The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light : they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
Pagina 144 - IF there are ranks in suffering, Israel takes precedence of all the nations, — if the duration of sorrows and the patience with which they are borne ennoble, the Jews are among the aristocracy of every land, — if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a National Tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes...
Pagina 18 - And it shall come to pass in that day, That the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, And for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Pagina 15 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.