Michael Heilprin and His Sons: A BiographyDodd, Mead, 1912 - 540 pages This volume contains articles written by Michael Heilprin for various magazines and newspapers including: "Nation", "Evening Post" and "American Cyclopaedia". In addition, it contains articles written by Heilprin's sons, Louis and Angelo. Commentary to the articles and biography of all three Hailprins is written by Gustav Pollak. |
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Page 11 - There was a hardness in his cheek, There was a hardness in his eye, As if the man had fixed his face, In many a solitary place, Against the wind and open sky...
Page 184 - Dembinski, at Fiired, and a considerable loss of time. Another heavy loss was that of the isolated fortress Eszek, which was surrendered with immense stores by its cowardly commanders. Elated by the dispatches of Prince Windischgratz, the young emperor Francis Joseph, who had succeeded his uncle at Olmiitz (Dec. 2, 1848), now promulgated a new constitution (March 4), which with one stroke annihilated the constitution and national independence of Hungary, making it, with narrowed limits, a crownland...
Page 81 - Bible is inconsistent with the most tender reverence for its contents or with their persistent fascination. But the reverence of Mr. Heilprin for the subject-matter of his criticism could hardly be surpassed, and that it has not lost its power to interest and charm, his book itself is ample evidence, which will be reinforced by the experience of every intelligent reader of its too brief contents.
Page 140 - Why is the history of Niirnberg greater than the history of Exeter? Simply because the history of England is greater than the history of Germany. Why have not our cities such mighty senate-houses, such gorgeous palaces, as the seats of republican freedom or of princely rule among the Italian and Teutonic cities ? It is because England was one, while Italy and Germany and Gaul were still divided.
Page 160 - Now and then the scribe displays his learning by introducing synonyms or equivalent ideographic combinations, many of which had probably never been used in any real text at all. The mythological lists, which contain a medley of divine names and epithets drawn from sources of all kinds and ages, partly Accado-Sumerian, partly Assyrian, partly purely ideographic, partly even Elamite or Kosssean, afford a good example of the difficulty and danger of trusting implicitly to such guides. It is from this...
Page 279 - ... being re-made in miniature. We were four feet, perhaps less, from a point whence a plummet could be dropped into the seething furnace. Momentary flashes of light permitted us to peer deep into the tempest-tossed caldron, but at no time could we see its floor, for over it rolled the vapors that rose out to mountain heights.
Page 435 - Stream, bringing an immense quantity of pelagic animals to serve as food for the corals found along its path. There is practically no evidence that the Florida Reef, or any part of the southern peninsula of Florida which has been formed by corals, owes its existence to the effect of elevation ; or that the atolls of this district, such as those of the Marquesas or of the great Alacran Reef, owe their peculiar structure to subsidence.
Page 282 - Throughout the whole of Friday, August 29, Pelee kept up a continuous growl. The sound came to us like the rumbling of wagons crossing a bridge, and at times like distant thunder. M. Louis des Grottes, our host at the Habitation Leyritz, where we had been installed the evening before, felt uneasy, and thought that many days might elapse before an ascent of the mountain could properly be attempted. On the evening of Monday preceding there had been a wonderful exhibition of volcanic pyrotechnics, and...
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Page 178 - The revolutionary movement of 1848-'9 proved the immense progress of the Jews as well as of public opinion since Mendelssohn and Lessing. The Jews Cremieux, Goudchaux, and Fould (now minister of state) were among the ministers of the French republic; Pincherle was a member of the provisional government in Venice; Jacobi of Konigsberg was the leader of the opposition in the Berlin parliament ; Riesser was vice-president of that of Frankfort ; Dr. Fischhof stood at the head of affairs in Vienna after...