 | Joseph Krauskopf - Jews - 1886 - 280 pages
...darkness of besotted ignorance ; while juggling miracles and lying relics were the themes on which almost all Europe was expatiating ; while the intellect...abandoned, the Jews were still pursuing the path of knowelege, amassing learning, and stimulating progress with the same unflinching constancy that they... | |
 | Brooklyn Ethical Association - Civilization - 1890 - 444 pages
...relics were the themes on which almost all Europe was expatiating ; while the intellect of Europe, enthralled by countless superstitions, had sunk into a deadly torpor in which all love of inquiry and all search for truth were abandoned, the Jews were still pursuing the path of knowledge,... | |
 | George Frederick Abbott - Jews - 1907 - 574 pages
...the darkness of besotted ignorance ; while juggling miracles and lying relics were themes on which almost all Europe was expatiating ; while the intellect of Christendom, enthralled by countless persecutions, had sunk into a deadly torpor, in which all love of inquiry and all search for truth... | |
 | Leon Simon - Hebrew literature - 1910 - 248 pages
...darkness of besotted ignorance ; while juggling miracles and lying relics were the themes on which all Europe was expatiating ; while the intellect of...had sunk into a deadly torpor, in which all love of inquiry and all search for truth were abandoned, the Jews were still pursuing the path of knowledge,... | |
 | Jewish Chautauqua Society - Jewish religious education - 1912 - 112 pages
...expatiating, while the intellect of Christendom had sunk into a deadly torpor, in which all love of inquiry and all search for truth were abandoned, the Jews...unflinching constancy that they manifested in their faith." (1) Along side this quotation let me present a contrasting picture. Naphtali Herz Wessely, one of the... | |
 | Joseph Herman Hertz - Jewish literature - 1921 - 392 pages
...the darkness of besotted ignorance; while juggling miracles and lying relics were the themes on which almost all Europe was expatiating ; while the intellect...had sunk into a deadly torpor, in which all love of inquiry and all search for truth were abandoned, the Jews were still pursuing the path of knowledge,... | |
 | Joseph Herman Hertz - Jewish literature - 1922 - 392 pages
...darkness of besotted ignorance ; while juggling miracles and lying relics were the themes on which almost all Europe was expatiating ; while the intellect...had sunk into a deadly torpor, in which all love of inquiry and all search for truth were abandoned, the Jews were still pursuing the path of knowledge,... | |
 | Judah Leo Landau - Hebrew literature, Modern - 1923 - 196 pages
...of besotted ignorance . . . while the intellect of Christendom had sunk into a deadly torpor . . . the Jews -were still pursuing the path of knowledge,...unflinching constancy that they manifested in their faith."12 Men like Lecky think first of famous Jewish physicans and philosophers; Christian Orientalists,... | |
 | Elisha M. Friedman - Jews - 1924 - 312 pages
...the darkness of besotted ignorance; while juggling miracles and lying relics were the themes on which almost all Europe was expatiating; while the intellect...had sunk into a deadly torpor, in which all love of inquiry and all search for truth were abandoned, the Jews were still pursuing the path of knowledge,... | |
 | Samuel Walker McCall - Jews - 1924 - 296 pages
...in the darkness of besotted ignorance, while juggling miracles and lying relics were themes on which almost all Europe was expatiating, while the intellect of Christendom, enthralled by countless persecutions, had sunk into a deadly torpor in which all love of inquiry and all search of truth were... | |
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Christendom, enthralled by countless superstitions, had sunk into a deadly torpor, in which all love of inquiry and all search for truth were abandoned, the Jews were still pursuing the path of knowledge, amassing learning, and stimulating progress with... 
