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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Copy... ... and he died in Rome, or whether he ever returned to his own dear country. English oaks have grown up from acorns, and withered away, when they were h... ...he streets, crying for bread; and that this beggar woman was the poisoning English queen. It was, in deed, Edburga; and so she died, without a shel ... ...orely. These were the Northmen, the people of Denmark and Norway, whom the English called the Danes. They were a warlike people, quite at home upon th... ...Once, Egbert beat them. But, they cared no more for being beaten than the English them selves. In the four following short reigns, of Ethelwulf, and... ...by a great lord. On the day of his coronation, a dreadful murdering of the Jews took place, which seems to have given great delight to numbers of sava... ...g themselves Christians. The King had issued a proclamation forbidding the Jews (who were generally hated, though they were the most useful merchants ... ... was trying to get in at the Hall door with his present. A riot arose. The Jews who had got into the Hall, were driven forth; and some of the rabble c... ...rowd rushed through the narrow streets of the city, slaugh tering all the Jews they met; and when they could find no more out of doors (on account of...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, an... ... problem, As if she deem’d that mystery would ennoble ‘em. She liked the English and the Hebrew tongue, And said there was analogy between ‘em... ...ments lean ‘em, ‘’T is strange — the Hebrew noun which means “I am,” The English always use to govern d—n.” Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 8 S... ... Call me the only virtuous wife in Spain? Were there not also Russians, English, many? The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, And Lord M... ...ch was brought to light, And how Alfonso sued for a divorce, Were in the English newspapers, of course. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 37 If yo... ...s, till deeper griefs congeal our tears. So Juan wept, as wept the captive Jews By Babel’s waters, still remembering Sion: I ‘d weep,—but mine... ...the destiny of this young troop, How some were bought by pachas, some by Jews, How some to burdens were obliged to stoop, And others rose to... ...me bricks has got, And written lately two memoirs upon’t), Believe the Jews, those unbelievers, who Must be believed, though they believe not ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood Professor of English at Princeton University Preface IN MAKING THIS abridgement of Boswe... ...ar enough; she should have taken him to Rome.’ He was first taught to read English by Dame Oliver, a widow, who kept a school for young children in Li... ...as high a proof of his merit as he could conceive.’ His next instructor in English was a master, whom, when he spoke of him to me, he familiarly calle... ...nson comparison will satisfy every reader, that he is much excelled by the English Juvenal. Oldham had also imitated it, and applied it to London; all... ...as eating it, he said, “I wish I was a Jew.” “Why so? (said somebody;) the Jews are not al- lowed to eat your favourite meat.” “Because, (said he,) I ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ns, confident of the ludicrous to come. So confident that their grip of an English gentle- man, in whom they have spied their game, never relaxes unti... ...e circumstance of their having a Patterne in the Marines. But how then! We English have ducal blood in business: we have, genealogists 9 George Mered... ...t natural grand pose possible without ceasing for a moment to be the young English gentle- man he is. Alcibiades, fresh from a Louis IV perruquier, co... ...! it was a naughty Court. Y et have we dreamed of it as the period when an English cavalier was grace incar- nate; far from the boor now hustling us i... ...y, Vernon, you yourself have said that the En- glish would be very perfect Jews if they could manage to live on the patriarchal system. You said it, y...

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...ocument File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of... ...ng to which they are there called virtues or vices. And whatever authority the learned Mr. Lowde places in his Old English Dictionary, I daresay it no... ...ecedent to the knowl- edge of names; which rules a man must know, what language soever he chance to learn, whether English or Japan, or if he should l... ...haps as knowing a divine, and as good a mathematician as any in it; the difference between him and a more improved Englishman lying barely in this, th... ...ow, and pitiful ideas of God common among men. This was evidently the case of all Gentilism. Nor hath even amongst Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, w... ...dea we have from reflection, and is by some called thinking in gen- eral. Though thinking, in the propriety of the English tongue, signifies that sort... ... could any one translate them into the Caribbee or Westoe tongues: and the versura of the Romans, or corban of the Jews, have no words in other langua...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...s no heed to it, being ab- sorbed in trimming a huge red geranium bush, to English eyes unnaturally big, which, with a dusty smilax or two, is the sol... .... Them eathens is jast lawk you an’ me, gavner. A lady and gentleman, both English, come into the garden. The gentleman, more than elderly, is facing ... ...umanity, who begins a casual acquaintance at the point usually attained by English people after thirty years ac- quaintance when they are capable of r... ...know it. These people have no laws to restrain them, which means, in plain English, that they are habitual thieves and murderers. RANKIN. Nay, nay: no... ...e and lets my caravans alone. But I have sworn an oath to him to take only Jews and true believers—no Christians, you understand. LADY CICELY. Then wh...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...y sheer force of repetition, that view is imposed upon the reader. The two English mas- ters of the style, Macaulay and Carlyle, largely exemplify its... ... But the common, trashy mind of our gen- eration is still aghast, like the Jews of old, at any word of an unsuccessful virtue. Job has been written an... ...on Society in England; and Mr. John Payne has translated him entirely into English, a task of un- usual difficulty. I regret to find that Mr. Payne an... ... astonishing that their work should be so different. The fact is, that the English novel was looking one way and seeking one set of effects in the han... ...ead. Lastly, we have here already some beginning of that curious series of English blunders, that makes us wonder if there are neither proof-sheets no... ...d and com- forted the wicked kings of Israel; or of Jeremiah, who bade the Jews pray for the prosperity of Nebuchadnezzar. As for the Queen’s aid, the...