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...ere with the mundane, they say. And I rehearse in hopeful genuflection: "You mustn't send a Jewish prisoner to an Arab-infested prison. After all, I... ...ude of churchmen. They rose in noiseless unison and waited. My host declaimed: "We have a Jewish guest, from Israel today" – he hesitated – "He wi... ... of crimson skullcaps as they rested foreheads on locked, diaphanous digits. I uttered the Jewish prayer slowly, improvising some. The alien phrase... ... friends and recounted some futile anecdotes. The ceremony held by the municipality in the Writers Hall was open to the public. I said to Nomi: "... ...e" – Dani is soft-spoken even when his words are not. That evening, Nomi and I went to the Writers' Hall. A woman with anorectic eyes compared our ... ...ary Club Award for Social Studies (1976), and the Bilateral Relations Studies Award of the American Embassy in Israel (1978). Hundreds of professio...

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...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ...en add the belief that Jesus is God, and that the Bible is true--both the Jewish scriptures and the New Testament scriptures, then my religious belie... ...d you believe that it starts at birth we both hold only opinions. The old Jewish concept was that life started when the child 49 was born. The C... ...virtue is kind.‘ Then a few hundred years later Christianity rekindled the Jewish law when Matthew wrote ‗So in everything, do to others, what you wo... ...n which scripture we are reading. ―Among the ancient Greeks we find writers who were pantheistic, panentheistic, polytheistic and monotheistic... ... of 90% saying they believe in God, surveys show that many can‘t name the writers of the gospels or the first five books of their Bible. ―S... ... the reading of foreign meanings into the words of the highly intelligent writers of the Constitution by partisan judges and lawmakers have all scar...

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...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ...nse. Viktor Frankl developed the idea that we need to find meaning in our lives and to be responsible for choosing and living our values. As a Jewish... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ... being only one God. This he passed down through his son Isaac to his progeny, the Jews. Jesus of course was always a Jew. He, like many other Jewish... ...ion in literature and to popular songs and other media. Psychologists have recently separated the real roots of love from the images romantic writer... ... drives of Freud? How much is a person‘s environment influenced by finding meaning in his or her life? Certainly our environments differ. The Jewish... ...l violence is frowned on throughout our society. And we keep out of our media the Hollywood emphasis on violence for entertainment. Our media writer...

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... and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?...

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...f whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colours highl... ...res whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. The American portion of this story is in no other respect a carica- ture than a... ...or the most part (Mr. Bevan ex- pected), of a ludicrous side, only, of the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from ... ...mon capacity or accomplishments, I think! Am I, or am I not?’ ‘You are the American aloe of the human race, my dear Chiv,’ said Mr Tigg, ‘which only b... ...e wouldn’t have ventured to deny, on affidavit, that he had the beard of a Jewish rabbi. ‘Go with the grain, Poll, all round, please,’ said Mr Bailey,...

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...ience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. So...

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...HER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...x- *“Merciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every phi... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ...the shal- lowest, manual of itself. And thus it happens, for example, that writers so laborious and serviceable as Birch are in any popular sense scar... ...etfulness of the realities belonging to the case, has it been possible for writers in public journals to persist in arguing national questions upon th... ...insisted on in 1800; that is, forty years earlier than any of these German writers had turned their thoughts in that direction. Had I, then, really al... ... that is, a born gentleman, speaks of bankers as we in England should of a Jewish usurer, or tricking money- changer. The liberal trades, such as thos... ...that God should vindicate by some memorable interference, since of all the Jewish institutions it was that one which only and which frequently became ...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................

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...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...rty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be view... ...n. In the real circumstances of the Christian church, when struggling with Jewish persecution at some period of the generation between the crucifixion... ...iarisms in the “Paradise Lost” from Latin passages fathered upon imaginary writers, when these passages had previously been forged by Lauder himself f... ...rocken.”—This very striking phenom- enon has been continually described by writers, both Ger- man and English, for the last fifty years. Many readers,... ...ers; which, however, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to the writers of the letters, had the unhappy effect of riveting her dislike (pre... ...ance words, is not, as some readers may fancy, an old, obsolete, or merely Jewish form of seeking the divine pleasure. About a century ago, a man so f... ... title to their robes, (for which I could not help wishing that a party of Jewish old clothes men would at this moment have appeared, and made a loud ...

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...N MENT IN GENERAL. WITH CONCISE RE MARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION SOME WRITERS HAVE so confounded society with gov ernment, as to leave little... ...e character to be absurd and useless. “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 10 Some writers have explained the English constitu tion thus: The king, say the... ... happy something in them, which vanishes away when we come to the history of Jewish royalty. Government by kings was first introduced into the world b... ...er lived. “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 25 THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF AMERICAN AFFAIRS IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES I offer nothing more than simpl... ...all it. France and Spain never were. nor perhaps ever will be our enemies as AMERICANS, but as our being the sub jects of GREAT BRITAIN. But Britain ... ...t brought to their doors to make THEM feel the precariousness with which all American property is possessed. But let our imaginations transport us far... ...should the present Proud Imitator of him, come to the same untimely end, the writers and publishers of the Testimony, are bound, by the doctrine it co...

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... three or four dandies, dressed smartly in the French fashion, with strong Jewish physiognomies. There was one, a solemn lean fellow in black, with hi... ...moke had darkened the whole city with soot, and when, according to the old writers, there really was bright weather. The fleets of caiques bustling al... ...e moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the quays country ships from the Black Sea o... ...oney to make the pilgrimage to Jerusa- lem. There were several families of Jewish Rabbis, who cel- ebrated their “feast of tabernacles” on board; thei... ...ould never pay for cabins); And each man moaned and jabbered in His filthy Jewish gaberdine, In woe and lamentation, And howling consternation. And t... ...issaries, with silver maces shining in the sun. ’Twas the party of the new American Consul-General of Syria and Jerusalem, hastening to that city, wit... ...lem, so as to be on the spot in readiness. When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe... ...mo- rial accorded to the Christians of the Latin rite in Syria. All French writers and travellers speak of this protection with de- lightful complacen... ...I would urge, humbly, however, is this—Do not let us be led away by German writers and aes- thetics, Semilassoisms, Hahnhahnisms, and the like. The l...

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...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...perous grocer, one a Yankee carpenter, one a soda-clerk, and one a Russian Jewish actor The Russian Jew quoted Kautsky, Gene Debs, and Abraham Lincoln... ...One the other day about a coupla Swedes and their wives,” and, in the best Jewish accent, he resolutely carried the Good One to a slightly disinfected... ...randams swung their legs in the more elementary cho- rus-evolutions, and a Jewish comedian made vicious fun of Jews. In the entr’actes they met other ... ...e to ruin this business than all the plots and stuff that these fool story-writers could think up in a month of Sundays.” That afternoon, when the old...

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... university. 3 Henry James A Little Tour In France by Henry James WE GOOD AMERICANS—I say it without presumption—are too apt to think that France is ... ... of old furniture, as all apartments should be through which the insatiate American wanders in the rear of a bored domestic, pausing to stare at a fad... ...had not come over the spirit of the people. They seemed to me as silent as Americans when Americans have not been “introduced,” and infinitely less ad... ...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... ...d. I was unable to trace the configuration of the castle as plainly as the writers who have described it in the guide-books, and I am ashamed to say t...

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... the un- known painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or less do- cility , have followed. For a long time no c... ...purpose. And when such as had come in contact with Strickland in the past, writers who had known him in Lon- don, painters who had met him in the cafe... ...y the reader is safer of entertainment in their hands than in those of the writers who take a malicious pleasure in rep- resenting the great figures o... ...e finest country in the world, sir , and he felt a lively superiority over Americans, Colonials, Dagos, Dutchmen, and Kanakas. But I do not think he w... ...elu, whither came ships’ captains in search of a man. He was married to an American woman, obese and slat- ternly , fallen to this pass by Heaven know... ...pan- iards, pleasant-looking fellows from a French cruiser, negroes off an American tramp. By day it is merely sordid, but at night, lit only by the l... ...r- give themselves for the opportunity which had escaped them. There was a Jewish trader called Cohen, who had come by one of Strickland’s pic- tures ...

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... talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lord Breeze. “Whup there!” said Lord Breeze in a... ...uestrian… .” That night some malignant spirit kept Benham awake, and great American trotters with vast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncon... ...ast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncontrollable, hard-mouthed American trot- ters, pounded over his angry soul. “Prothero,” he said in ha... ...ad still to reckon with stupidity. He believed in the statecraft of leader-writers and the sincerity of political programmes. And so regarded, what an... ...ming merely an 105 H G Wells intellectual like those wordy Fabians, those writers, poseurs, and sham publicists whose wrangles he had attended? And, ... ...hovels…. W andering wise man with a roll- ing eye, a fakir under a tree, a Jewish sheik, an Arab epilep- tic….” “Would you sweep away the experience o... ...a gathering-place for mischief. The extremest case of race- feeling is the Jewish case, and even here, I am convinced, it is the Bible and the Talmud ... ...ourt that had become the refuge of a crowd of fugitives. Some of the young Jewish men had al- ready been making a fight, rather a poor and hopeless fi...

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...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...ounted on his fingers eight residual natives. Or take the valley of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Ha... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i... ...speak) of other and more liberal gods; and not to be blamed if he profit by his liberty. The Jews were perhaps the first to interrupt this ancient com...

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... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ...n- ess in the family of a fashionable portrait-painter , who had married a Jewish wife of means, and in their house she had met many distinguished peo... ...t them out and ar- range them alphabetically according to the names of the writers. “I’ll take you to the room in which the articled clerk generally s... ... came out in The Y ellow Book.” They looked upon him, as painters often do writers, with contempt because he was a layman, with tolerance because he p... ...o oc- cupy themselves with the entertainment which is provided for them by writers, painters, and poets.” Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He h... ...acetious remarks. The house opposite, six storeys high, was a workshop for Jewish tailors who left off work at eleven; the rooms were brightly lit and...

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...east, and many for half an hour longer. There was no rigorous and pedantic Jewish superstition about the exact limits of Sunday. At the very worst, th... ...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ...anguage as not to know, that (except in the merely historical parts of the Jewish records) every section of time has a secret and separate acceptation... ...rd his voyages in this world of storms. So did many a hundred of religious writers. And what won- der should there be in this, when the main qualifica... ... Book of an English Opium-Eater much wonder in that, when we see professed writers on the subject—bulky writers—writers of Answers and Refutations, di... ... an unclassical tipple; but perhaps not. Xenophon, the most Attic of prose writers, mentions pointedly in his Anabasis, that the T en Thousand, when r... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...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... ..., Lamb, De Quincey, and Mrs. Humphry Ward, who, it seemed, constituted the writers of English Fiction and Es- says. Not till she inspected the rest-ro... ... I guess the feminine mind is too innocent to understand all these immoral writers. I’m sure I don’t want to criticize Bernard Shaw; I understand he i... ...n once 246 Main Street taught Sunday School. Four “entertainers” who told Jewish stories, Irish sto- ries, German stories, Chinese stories, and Tenne...

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... women he has met. They have been people of very various origins; English, Americans, Bengalis, Russians, French, people brought up in a “Catholic atm... ... of him, or reading in a blind, industrious way that strange miscellany of Jewish and early Christian literature, the Bible, and suchlike mental morti... ...d of * It is not so generally understood as it should be among English and American readers that a very large proportion of early Christians before th... ...hly thought out than those of any other of 63 H. G. Wells these sceptical writers I have quoted. On that account they are perhaps more typical. He sp... ...ious,” or they become murderous, or they become suicidal. All these letter-writers in confinement have con- vinced their fellow-creatures by some extr...

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...ountries, a cold and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the American and French Revolutions. These great events gave a shock everywhere... ...mise—except that the sleeves are want- ing; and during the first period of Jewish history, it was prob- ably worn as the sole under-garment by women o... ...worn by the Hebrew women in all ages; and in the flourishing period of the Jewish kingdom, probably by men: and so essential an ornament were they dee... ...doubtful. In a later age, as we collect from the Thalmud, Part VI. 43, the Jewish ladies wore gold or silver pendants, of which the upper part was sha... ...cide with the opportunities for ob- taining accurate information; when the writers were so few, 85 Thomas de Quincey and the audience so limited and ... ...nxiously prepared the means. And it is certain, that, although some German writers have attempted to fasten upon Charlemagne a charge of vexatious inq... ...entire tribes of those savages, and, upon a scale still more awful, to the American Indians. In such cases, mere strangers would 132 Theological Essa...

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... the word pity; and hence, instead of saying “sympathy with another,” many writers adopt the monstrous barbarism of “sympathy for another.” 7 ably di... ...to. Murdratus est, says the sublimer dialect of Gothic ages. Meantime, the Jewish, school of murder kept alive what- ever was yet known in the art, an... ...the art, and gradually transferred it to 16 the Western World. Indeed the Jewish school was always re- spectable, even in the dark ages, as the case ... ...sessors, and the business of the evening proceeded. The next toast was—The Jewish Sicarii. Upon which I made the following explanation to the com- pan... ... France has produced, one of the reputed leaders is M. Michelet. All these writers are of a revolutionary cast; not in a political sense merely, but i... ... to read, may introduce you, that have not, to two or three dozen of these writers; of whom I can assure you beforehand that they are often profound, ... ...he sun, 10 “Three hundred.” Of necessity this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous. Acco... ...less man, must sound ludicrous. Accordingly, I remember a case in which an American writer indulges himself in the luxury of a little lying, by ascrib... ...o an Englishman a pompous account of the Thames, constructed entirely upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— ...

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... able to do. Oh, the bitterness of the cup I drink! But I bow submissive. God must have done right. I do not want to feel less, but to acquiesce more ... ...r to you, on behalf of our community, the expression of their warm acknowledgments and grateful thanks, and their sincere wishes for your continued we... ...ome; I thought of the many people in Australia, who would have an interest in such a shipwreck, and would find their way here when they visit the Old ... ...g come but the jug of ale and the bread, you implore your waiter to ‘see after that cutlet, waiter; pray do!’ He cannot go at once, for he is carrying... ...o bitterly anathematised a poor little Circus. Similarly, in the reading provided for the young people enrolled in the Lasso of Love, and other excell... ...as already in the un- commercial line. This was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities—had bee... ... at every violent roll, becomes the regular blast of a high pressure en- gine, and I recognise the exceedingly explosive steamer in which I ascended t... ...dren played up and down all the steps, and in and out among all the people’s legs, and were beheld, to the general dismay, toppling over all the dange...