This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...Europe " palliates the darker features of the Machiavellian teaching by the nature of the times, yet in his own " Europe during the Middle Ages," writing of the rapid decay of Charlemagne's Empire under his son Louis, "called by the Italians the Pious, and by the French the Debonair or Good-natured," ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...Europe " palliates the darker features of the Machiavellian teaching by the nature of the times, yet in his own " Europe during the Middle Ages," writing of the rapid decay of Charlemagne's Empire under his son Louis, "called by the Italians the Pious, and by the French the Debonair or Good-natured," he says " the fault lay entirely in his heart; and this fault was nothing but a temper too soft and a conscience too strict. It is not wonderful that the Empire should have been speedily dissolved." And Charlemagne, its peerless founder, is described as having divorced nine wives, beheaded four thousand Saxons in a single day, and executed all who ate flesh during Lent! It is when I hear the words of Church or Press, Parliaments or Royal Proclamations, that I fall into a rage against language, and even as Sancho Panza blessed the man who invented sleep, I curse the man who invented speech. In the beautiful dumb days the strong rent the weak in sacred simplicity. Now the strong make pious speeches to show that the eupepsia of the universe is their appetite's aim, and the weak must listen to proofs that they are being eaten for their own good. Happily the serpent no longer talks, else were his slow slimy deglutition of the living rabbit accompanied by a sermon. The State has not only killed Christ but stolen his words. At the Hague the lion and the lamb lie down together, and the concordial words flow on like music, till the lamb suggests that the lion should pare his claws. And the lamb himself--is he anything but a wolf in sheep's clothing? Is he not at heart envious of claws, always feeling his paws for talons of his own? "And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before...
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Add this copy of Works of Israel Zangwill to cart. $56.53, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
Add this copy of Works of Israel Zangwill to cart. $61.52, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
