Hebrew Humour and Other EssaysLuzac & Company, 1905 - 186 pagina's |
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... various literary societies , such as the Inter- national Congress of Orientalists , the Biblical Archaeological Society , and the Jews ' College Literary Association . Several of them have already appeared in various periodicals , such ...
... various literary societies , such as the Inter- national Congress of Orientalists , the Biblical Archaeological Society , and the Jews ' College Literary Association . Several of them have already appeared in various periodicals , such ...
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... various countries , what objection can be raised to the assumption that it attracted the attention of some Greek and Roman writers , and influenced them to a certain extent in the composition of several of their beautiful metaphors and ...
... various countries , what objection can be raised to the assumption that it attracted the attention of some Greek and Roman writers , and influenced them to a certain extent in the composition of several of their beautiful metaphors and ...
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... various Jewish kings , and parti- cularly the Temple of Solomon , show the pitch of artistic excellence which they had attained . There is no doubt much exaggeration in the statement made by some writers that classical antiquity was ...
... various Jewish kings , and parti- cularly the Temple of Solomon , show the pitch of artistic excellence which they had attained . There is no doubt much exaggeration in the statement made by some writers that classical antiquity was ...
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... various modern travellers ( cp . Layard , Nineveh and Babylon , p . 62 ) . These enormous stones were , strange to say , put together without the aid of tools . The latter , made as they were out of a material from which weapons of war ...
... various modern travellers ( cp . Layard , Nineveh and Babylon , p . 62 ) . These enormous stones were , strange to say , put together without the aid of tools . The latter , made as they were out of a material from which weapons of war ...
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... various marble buildings , with artistically formed roofs , each building having magnificent halls and colonnades . Pleasure grounds , tiny forests , and gardens of every kind surrounded it , and elaborate waterworks were built to give ...
... various marble buildings , with artistically formed roofs , each building having magnificent halls and colonnades . Pleasure grounds , tiny forests , and gardens of every kind surrounded it , and elaborate waterworks were built to give ...
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Agada Alcharizi ancient Hebrews appeared beautiful Bechinath Olam Berlin Bible Biblical Book of Proverbs called century chap chapter charm commentary composed Dante David David Kaufmann death Dervish Eben Bochan entitled Erter existence Frankel Geiger German Graetz Greek happy heaven Hebrew literature Hebrew periodical Hebrew women Heine humour ibid Ibn Ezra Immanuel interesting ISAAC ERTER Isaiah Italian Jewish community Jewish literature Jews Judaism Kalonymos Kalonymos's king Latin light literary living Luzzatto Machberoth Maimonides mentioned metaphors Mishna MODERN HEBREW Moses Moses Mendelssohn once original passages Piyutim poems Poesie poet poetical poetry Prince prophets Proverbs published Purim Rabbi Rebbe reference religious remarks rhymed prose Robert of Naples runs as follows SAMUEL DAVID LUZZATTO satire says scholars Solomon songs soul spirit Steinschneider style subjects subsequently synagogue Talmud Temple thee translation verse wife woman words writers Yedaya Zunz Zunz's
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.