This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...inculcates the duty of praying for the welfare of the realm, and continues thus: " Why does the calumniator bring baptized Jews and their accomplices as witnesses against the Jews? Shall 1 believe them, those who forge such manifest falsehoods against me? If they are guilty of such mendacity against me, a Christian, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...inculcates the duty of praying for the welfare of the realm, and continues thus: " Why does the calumniator bring baptized Jews and their accomplices as witnesses against the Jews? Shall 1 believe them, those who forge such manifest falsehoods against me? If they are guilty of such mendacity against me, a Christian, what would they not do against the Jews!"--At the close of his work he sets his calumniator a monument in the following words: "Arnold of Tongern, slanderer and falsifier for all times!" Reuchlin handed his defense to the Emperor in person, who received it graciously. This defense, which was soon widely diffused through the press, was the first vigorous, effective stroke of a giant against one of the heads of the venomous hydra, resounding through all Christian Europe. To provoke the powerful Dominicans, whom even Popes and Emperors feared, --to tread upon and even wound these serpents in one of their most dangerous dens, caused him to be applauded and admired by the most diverse dupes, not merely by the humanists and temporial officers, but also by the higher and lower orders of the secular clergy, who bore reluctantly the tyranny of tiie monks and friars; by the other orders who were after thrown into the shade by the arrogance of the Dominicans, and in particular, by the officers of the Imperial Court, whose plans were often frustrated by their intolerable interference. The Ciceronian diction, the profound indignation, spontaneously manifested therein, the irony, all, even the learned quotations from classical, biblical and ecclesiastical literature--the seeming ballast of the work--the puns and witticisms agreeable to the taste of the age, was all calculated to make an impression, the more so, as Reuchlin was known to be n...
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