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...ligious creeds as there are adherents. It is true that thevast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many...

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...Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many people these terms have come to lose nearly all meanin... ...people as much as things. This is more or less what Martin Buber, a modern Jewish writer, meant when he spoke of changing one’s perception of the worl... ...ns tend to devote the giant’s share of their content to the development of Jewish and Christian thought, which is then used in turn as a basic outlook... ...grouping of people to whom it is convenient to give a common name such as “Jewish” or “Shinto.” What is more usually intended is very well-defined, or... ...e explanation may be simply that Buddhist converts in the West come from a Jewish or Christian background in which the masculinity of God has until re... ...hymn transcendently Him that transcends all. That is, negating, to do as sculptors do, drawing [from marble] the statue latent there, removing al...

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... more rounded outline, more flesh, and less of heroic muscle, than the old sculptors were wont to assign to their types of masculine beauty. The chara... ...ey thought and said. It might be under this influence—or, perhaps, because sculptors always abuse one another’s works—that Kenyon threw in a criticism... ...was said, for example, that Miriam was the daughter and heiress of a great Jewish banker (an idea perhaps sug- gested by a certain rich Oriental chara... ...ome there. She was very youthful, and had what was usually thought to be a Jewish aspect; a complexion in which there was no roseate bloom, yet neithe... ... the vulgar glossiness of other women’s sable locks; if she were really of Jewish blood, then this was Jewish hair, and a dark glory such as crowns no... ... their own art throws on mine. More valuable, too, than that of my brother sculptors, who never judge me fairly,—nor I them, perhaps.” T o gratify him... ...ose disturbed mind found a certain relief in this declama- tion, “that you sculptors are, of necessity, the greatest plagia- rists in the world.” “I d... ...ns, probably as fine in qual- ity, I shall steadfastly believe that future sculptors will revive this noblest of the beautiful arts, and people the wo... ...Titus. The moon shone brightly enough within it to show the seven-branched Jewish candlestick, cut in the marble of the interior. The original of that...

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... more rounded outline, more flesh, and less of heroic muscle, than the old sculptors were wont to assign to their types of masculine beauty. The chara... ...ey thought and said. It might be under this influence—or, perhaps, because sculptors always abuse one another’s works—that Kenyon threw in a criticism... ...was said, for example, that Miriam was the daughter and heiress of a great Jewish banker (an idea perhaps sug- gested by a certain rich Oriental chara... ...ome there. She was very youthful, and had what was usually thought to be a Jewish aspect; a complexion in which there was no roseate bloom, yet neithe... ... the vulgar glossiness of other women’s sable locks; if she were really of Jewish blood, then this was Jewish hair, and a dark glory such as crowns no... ... their own art throws on mine. More valuable, too, than that of my brother sculptors, who never judge me fairly,—nor I them, perhaps.” T o gratify him... ...ose disturbed mind found a certain relief in this declama- tion, “that you sculptors are, of necessity, the greatest plagia- rists in the world.” “I d... ...Titus. The moon shone brightly enough within it to show the seven-branched Jewish candlestick, cut in the marble of the interior. The original of that... ...rom English parentage, on the mother’s side, but with a vein, likewise, of Jewish blood; yet connected, through her father, with one of those few prin...

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...at might happen to it thencefor- ward. Wielding that wonderful power which sculptors pos- sess over moist clay, however refractory it may show itself ... ...e as I can spare in studying yonder statue of Pope Julius the Third. Those sculptors of the Middle Age have fitter lessons for the professors of my ar... ...beheld, or fancied, expressed with the quaint, pow- erful simplicity which sculptors sometimes had five hundred years ago, a woman’s tenderness respon... ...rom English parentage, on the mother’s side, but with a vein, likewise, of Jewish blood; yet connected, through her father, with one of those few prin...

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...teness in the work, and a certain robustness of taste. In nothing were the sculptors of the Renaissance more fortunate than in being in advance of us ... ...hand of Paul Dubois, one of the most interesting of that new generation of sculptors who have revived in France an art of which our overdressed centur... ...nd of Madame de Bargeton, who when she wore a toi- lette etudiee sported a Jewish turban ornamented with an Eastern brooch, a scarf of gauze, a neckla...

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...mmediately dried up. She looked like one of those meagre statues which the sculptors of the Middle Ages carved on monuments. “I cannot curse you,” sai... ...sins of Isis and her sister goddesses sheathed in marble folds by Egyptian sculptors. It was granite, basalt, porphyry, with life and movement. Saved ... ...You expected to find a gentleman, a leader of Art, the chief of all living sculptors.—But that is poetry, you see, a dream requiring fifty thousand fr... ...n, in which adverse criticism was contravened, and it was pointed out that sculptors altered their works in translating the plaster into marble, and t... ...up. You began the story of Samson; finish it.—Do a Delilah cutting off the Jewish Hercules’ hair. And you, who, if you will listen to me, will be a gr...

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...de in spices, drugs, condiments and other delicacies. He fetched a skilful Jewish physician to visit Sir Leonard Copeland, but there was no great diff... ...t Bruges was in a crisis of the fever of preparation to receive the bride. Sculptors, paint- ers, carvers were desperately at work at the Duke’s palac...

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...stic poem regarding the value of smiles. There were four other stunts: one Jewish, one Irish, one juvenile, and Nat Hicks’s parody of Mark Antony’s fu... ...ing impersonation seven times, “An Old Sweetheart of Mine” nine times, the Jewish story and the funeral oration twice; but now she was ardent and, bec... ...n once 246 Main Street taught Sunday School. Four “entertainers” who told Jewish stories, Irish sto- ries, German stories, Chinese stories, and Tenne... ... impertinence! “But he didn’t mean to be. “His hands are firm. I wonder if sculptors don’t have thick hands, too? “Of course if there really is anythi... ... days when authors dreamed only of selling a hundred thousand volumes, and sculptors of being feted in big houses, and even the Uplifters like me had ...

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...ed the figures of Flora and Zephyr as we see them grouped by the cleverest sculptors; but they were be- yond sculpture, the greatest of the arts; Luci... ... in the neigh- borhood of Paris, but failed to meet Esther. That beautiful Jewish face, which he called “a face out of te Biple,” was always before hi... ...ht dresses she achieved the effect of that stiff prim shape which medieval sculptors succeeded in giving to the statuettes whose profiles are conspicu... ...of his “Anchel’s” hands in both his, talking to her in his horrible Polish-Jewish accent, a jargon which must be as unpleasant to read as it is to hea...

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...o! I know you!” “Pardon me, but I could wish that you were a member of the Jewish persuasion. You would give them to me fast enough then.” “On the con... ...e next day a banquet and generous largesse given to a party of artists and sculptors. During these seasons of scarcity (sufficiently severe to have le...

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... The murderous-headed statues of the wicked Emperors of the Soldiery, whom sculptors had not been able to flatter out of their villainous hideousness,... ...ur and Mr Rugg arrived at the Counting-house. But an elderly member of the Jewish persuasion, preserved in rum, followed them close, and looked in at ...

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...rs’ sakes, of the age of Christian chivalry and faith; and Greece, for its sculptors’ sakes, of the Periclean age. These Holy Lands are my fatherlands... ... dry by the knightly spend- thrift, and the spendthrift was drained by the Jewish usurer, Church and State, religion and law, seized on the Jew and dr...

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... life abounds; in the filthy Roman Ghetto, for instance, with its swarming Jewish population, where ma- laria is unknown. Perhaps, too, the sight of t... ...e poor man had sifted the events of his past life. It has been the wont of sculptors, ancient and modern, to set a tutelary genius with a lighted torc...

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...s, and re- spectfully solicited to become a Patriarch for painters and for sculptors; with so much importunity, in sooth, that it would appear to be b... ... The murderous-headed statues of the wicked Emperors of the Soldiery, whom sculptors had not been able to flatter out of their villainous hideousness,... ...ur and Mr Rugg arrived at the Counting-house. But an elderly member of the Jewish persuasion, preserved in rum, followed them close, and looked in at ...