 the Jewish woman ' under pain of his curse. I was to feel everything I did not feel, and believe everything I did not believe. I was to feel awe for the bit of parchment in the mezuza over the door ; to dread lest a bit of butter should touch a bit of...  Daniel Deronda - Page 249by George Eliot - 1876 - 427 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 426 pages
...and believe everything I did not believe. I was to feel awe for the bit of parchment in the mezuza over the door ; to dread lest a bit of butter should...meat ; to think it beautiful that men should bind the tepliillin on them, and women not, — to adore the wisdom of such laws, however silly they might seem... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1896 - 896 pages
...the strictness of her Jewish upbringing : " I was to feel awe for the bit of parchment in the mezuza over the door ; to dread lest a bit of butter should touch a bit of meat." 1 have been told by Jewish friends that not every born member of theircommunity would recognize this... | |
 | George Eliot - 1901 - 610 pages
...bit of butter should touch a bit of meat ; to think it beautiful that men should bind the tephiUin on them, and women not, — to adore the wisdom of...synagogue, and the howling, and the gabbling, and the dreadfulfasts, and the tiresome feasts, and my father's endless discoursing about Our People, which... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - Biography - 1910 - 540 pages
...the strictness of her Jewish upbringing : " I was to i'eel awe for the bit of parchment in the mezuza over the door ; to dread lest a bit of butter should touch a bit of meat" I have been told by Jewish friends that not every born member of their community would recognize this... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - Biography - 1910 - 548 pages
...the strictness of her Jewish upbringing : " I was to feel awe for the bit of parchment in the mezuza over the door ; to dread lest a bit of butter should touch a tit of meat." I have been told by Jewish friends that not every born member of their community would... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 852 pages
...exclaims] : I was to feel everything I did not feel, and believe everything I did not believe. ... I was to love the long prayers in the ugly synagogue,...howling, and the gabbling, and the dreadful fasts, arid the tiresome feasts, and my father's endless discoursing about Our People, which was a thunder... | |
 | George Eliot - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 576 pages
...and believe everything I did not believe. I was to feel awe for the bit of parchment in the mezuza over the door; to dread lest a bit of butter should...should bind the tephillin on them, and women not, - ... I was to love the long prayers in the ugly synagogue, and the howling, and the gabbling, and... | |
 | Bryan Cheyette - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 426 pages
...and believe everything I did not believe. I was to feel awe for the bit of parchment in the mezzuza over the door; to dread lest a bit of butter should...of meat, to think it beautiful that men should bind tephillin on them and women not — to adore the wisdom of such laws, however silly they might seem... | |
 | George Eliot - 1909 - 414 pages
...and believe everything I did not believe. I was to feel awe for the bit of parchment in the mezuza over the door; to dread lest a bit of butter should...meat; to think it beautiful that men should bind the tephiUin on them, and women not, — to adore 'the wisdom of such laws, however silly they might seem... | |
 | Ruth R. Wisse - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 420 pages
...and believe every thing I did not believe. I was to feel awe for the bit of parchment in the mezuza over the door,- to dread lest a bit of butter should...of such laws, however silly they might seem to me. [. . . ] Ahi" — here her tone changed to one of a more bitter incisiveness — "you are glad to have... | |
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