The Occident, and American Jewish advocate, ed. by I. Leeser, Volume 22Isaac Leeser 1865 |
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Page 550 - Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 535 - XVI, of excellent memory, viz., liberty of conscience and of worship is the right of every man ;—a right which ought to be proclaimed and established by law in every...
Page 547 - Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? but ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Page 445 - L. Blumenberg, a Jew. Is it the Government of the United States that is pursuing this crusade against these citizens, or is it fostered and tolerated by its agents and the press? I am not now pleading the cause of the Jew, but I am defending the principle that underlies our public institutions, our private worth. Are we to go on in this uncalled for vituperation, and sowing the wind to reap at last the whirlwind? When you catch anyone guilty of a wrong, announce the fact "that John Jones was this...
Page 486 - We, the people of the United States [humbly acknowledging Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among the nations, and his revealed will as the supreme law of the land, in order to constitute a Christian government...
Page 442 - ... the Jew out of every honorable pursuit, and thus cutting off his nature from every sympathy with the world around, sharpened and edged the keen corners of his brain for the only pursuit left to him. It is true that money-changers once spit on in the Ghetto are now hugged in the palace. Rothschilds and Foulds, Belmonts and Benjamins, are found in the ante-chamber of princes and presidents. But we fear that it is not so much that the prejudice against the Jews has ceased, but that the love of money...
Page 498 - And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
Page 442 - Shakespeare holds up the love of money that marks the race, although he does not show that this passion was but the effect of that persecution which, by crowding the Jew out of every honorable pursuit, and thus cutting off his nature from every sympathy with the world around, sharpened and edged the keen corners of his brain for the only pursuit left to him.
Page 442 - ... may be traced to the wonderful workings of the soul of the Hebrew and the supremacy of that spiritual nature which gave to mankind its noblest religion, its noblest laws, and some of its noblest poetry and music.
Page 535 - See throughout the world," in which he set forth the following positions: 1. The Catholic Church ought fully to exercise until the end of time a " salutary force, not only with regard to each individual man, but with regard to nations, peoples and their rulers." 2. The best condition of society is that in which the power of the laity is compelled to inflict the penalties of law upon violators of the Catholic religion. 3. The opinion that " liberty of conscience and of worship is the right of every...