The Works of Benjamin Disraeli: Tancred, v. 2subscribers only, 1904 - English literature |
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Aleppo Amalek amid Ansarey Arab Arabian arms Asia Astarte Barizy Baroni beautiful Bedouin Beiroot Besso brother Caimacam camels Canobia castle chamber Christian companion Consul countenance cred Cypros Damascus Darkush daughter of Besso desert divan divine dress Druses Egyptian Emir Bescheer Emir Fakredeen Englishman Europe exclaimed eyes faith Fakre Fakredeen father favour garden Gindarics glance hand head heart Hebrew Hillel Holy house of Shehaab Jerusalem Jews Keferinis land Latakia Laurella Lebanon live looked lord Lord Palmerston Maronites Mehemet Ali Montacute Mount mountains muskets nargileh never noble Pasha Pasqualigo passed pavilion perhaps piastres plain prophets Queen race Rechab recognised redeen replied Rose of Sharon sacred Scheriff Effendi seated seemed Sheikh Hassan Sidonia Sinai speak Syrian Tancred tell tent things thought thousand piastres tion Tower trees tribe turban Turkish Turks voice wilderness wish young Emir
Popular passages
Page 158 - The equality of man can only be accomplished by the sovereignty of God. The longing for fraternity can never be satisfied but under the sway of a common father.
Page 4 - ... these ? The last light is extinguished in the village of Bethany. The wailing breeze has become a moaning wind ; a white film spreads over the purple sky; the stars are veiled, the stars are hid; all becomes as dark as the waters of Kedron and the valley of Jehoshaphat.
Page 2 - Street of Grief, because there the most illustrious of the human, as well as of the Hebrew race, the descendant of King David, and the divine son of the most...
Page 3 - Who can but believe that, at the midnight hour, from the summit of the Ascension, the great departed of Israel assemble to gaze upon the battlements of their mystic city? There might be counted heroes and sages, who need shrink from no rivalry with the brightest and the wisest of other lands; but the lawgiver of the time of the Pharaohs, whose laws are still obeyed; the monarch, whose reign has ceased for three thousand years, but whose wisdom is a proverb in all nations of the earth; the teacher,...
Page 75 - Tancred had kneeled before that empty sepulchre of the divine Prince of the house of David, for which his ancestor, Tancred de Montacute, six hundred years before, had struggled with those followers of Mahound, who, to the consternation and perplexity of Christendom, continued to retain it. Christendom cares nothing for that tomb now, has indeed forgotten its own name, and calls itself enlightened Europe. But enlightened Europe is not happy. Its existence is a fever, which it calls progress. Progress...
Page 2 - Judaea has in turn subverted the fanes which were raised to his father and to himself in their imperial capital; and the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob is now worshipped before every altar in Rome.
Page 183 - As for their command over nature," said Tancred, "let us see how it will operate in a second deluge. Command over nature ! Why the humblest root that serves for the food of man has mysteriously withered throughout Europe, and they are already pale at the possible consequences. This slight eccentricity of that nature, which they boast they can command, has already shaken empires, and may decide the fate of nations. No, gentle lady, Europe is not happy. Amid its false excitement, its bustling invention,...
Page 37 - I acknowledge the vast conception, dimly as my brain can partially embrace it. I understand thus much : the human race is saved; and, without the apparent agency of a Hebrew prince, it could not have been saved. Now tell me : suppose the Jews had not prevailed upon the Romans to crucify Jesus, what would have become of the Atonement ? " " I cannot permit myself to contemplate such contingencies,
Page 2 - Tis a fine spectacle, apart from all its indissoluble associations of awe and beauty. The mitigating hour softens the austerity of a mountain landscape magnificent in outline, however harsh and severe in detail; and, while it retains all its sublimity, removes much of the savage sternness of the strange and unrivaled scene.
Page 126 - Vast as the obligations of the whole human family are to the Hebrew race, there is no portion of the modern populations so much indebted to them as the British people. It was ' the sword of the Lord and of Gideon...