 | Maurice Henry Harris - 1899 - 64 pagina’s
...Testament, not to say Jewish spirit." This is most noticeable in the Puritan movement of England. " The early Protestant defenders of civil liberty derived...Testament, and the defenders of despotism from the New." Lecky, Rationalism in Europe, ii., 168. 3. The Hussite movement, although it gained victory on the... | |
 | American Jewish Historical Society. Executive Committee - 1906 - 296 pagina’s
...thus building up their civil state upon a purely religious, democratic foundation. As Lecky says: " It is at least an historical fact, that in the great...and the defenders of despotism from the New." The American Jews, as loyal and faithful citizens, have shared willingly in all the trials our country... | |
 | Maurice Henry Harris - 1907 - 344 pagina’s
...further declares : "The early Protestant defenders of civil liberty derived their political principles from the Old Testament, and the defenders of despotism from the New." A war was the outcome, which continued fitfully from 1420 to 1434. Although the Emperor could summon... | |
 | Peter Wiernik - 1912 - 506 pagina’s
...through their religious creed. "It is, at least, an historical fact — says the historian Lecky — that in the great majority of instances the early...of civil liberty derived their political principles chielly from the Old Testament, and the defenders of despotism from the New. The rebellions that were... | |
 | Oscar Solomon Straus - 1913 - 408 pagina’s
...thus they built up their civil state upon a purely religious, democratic foundation. As Lecky says: "It is at least an historical fact, that in the great...and the defenders of despotism from the New." The American Jews, as loyal and faithful citizens, have shared willingly in all the trials our country... | |
 | George Cohen - 1924 - 298 pagina’s
...page 1 68), commenting on English revolutionary methods, which were paralleled also in America, writes "It is at least an historical fact that in the great...that were so frequent in Jewish history formed the favorite topic of the one — the unreserved submission inculcated by St. Paul, of the other." The... | |
 | Henry Watson Fox - 1925 - 168 pagina’s
...any existing order of government.1 The keynote of Christ's teaching, however, was enshrined in a 1 " It is at least an historical fact that in the great...political principles chiefly from the Old Testament, the defenders of despotism from the New. The rebellions that were so frequent in Jewish history formed... | |
 | Central Conference of American Rabbis - 1926 - 458 pagina’s
...throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." 136 137 people that Lecky was right when he said: "It is, at least, an historical fact that in the great...Testament, and the defenders of despotism from the New." {Rationalism in Europe, Volume II, p. 168.) We, the rabbis of American Jewry, rejoice with the united... | |
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It is at least an historical fact that in the great majority of instances the early Protestant defenders of civil liberty derived their political principles chiefly from the Old Testament and the defenders of despotism from the New. 