...III “In this estate, if thou esteemest light The proffered kindness of the Egyptian king, Then give me leave to say, this oversight Beseems thee not, ... ...iron goes, To view what countenance every warrior bears, And lastly on the Egyptian baron stayed, To whom the duke thus for his answer said: 47 Torqu... ..., Because we list not in our conquests stay: But for it seems he would the Jews protect, Pray him from us that thought aside to lay, Nor us forbid thi... ...went on with lucky speed, And reared rams their horned fronts advance, The Ancient Foe to man, and mortal seed, His wannish eyes upon them bent askanc... ...by Heaven’s eternal doom: He thinks no force withstand or vanquish can The Egyptian strength, and therefore would that some Both of the prey and glory... ...X “I think,” quoth he, “on this distressed town, The aged Queen of Judah’s ancient land, Now lost, now sacked, spoiled and trodden down, Whose fall in...

... and swarming popularisation of flying which is now certainly imminent. We ancient survivors of those who believed in and wrote about flying before th... ...e British together, this great, laxly scattered, sea-linked association of ancient states and new-formed countries, Oriental nations, and con- tinenta... ...sistant at a Burmese oil-well, to the self-educating Scottish miner or the Egyptian clerk, the Empire and the English language should exist, visibly a... ...in the bee or the ant. Curiosity, deep stirrings to wander, the still more ancient inheritance of the hunter, a recurrent dis- taste for labour, and r... ...sia began to pour out their teeming peoples, and more particu- larly their Jews, Bohemia, the Slavonic states, Italy and Hun- gary followed and the la... ...can popu- lation since 1840 has, with the exception of the East Euro- pean Jews, consisted of peasantry, mainly or totally illiterate, accustomed to a... ...e, for which they held the En- glish responsible, and the Eastern European Jews escaping relentless persecutions, brought a persuasion of immense publ...