Vulgar words in Dreamers of the Ghetto (Page 1)
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And then the deputation passed again in its motley gear through the swarming streets of buffoons, through the avenue of scurrilities, to renew its hypocritical protestations before the throne of the Senator.
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Ye know how Rome hath suffered through the machinations of his bastard son, with his swaggering troop of cut-throats.
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"Down with all those bastard growths that flourish in the capital of Christendom.
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He the representative of the meek Christ who rode upon an ass, and said, 'Sell that thou hast and give to the poor, and come follow me'!
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And the Jews themselves, were these the Chosen People he had clothed with such romantic glamour?--fat burghers, clucking comfortably under the wing of the Protestant States-General; merchants sumptuously housed, vivifying Dutch trade in the Indies; their forms and dogmas alone distinguishing them from the heathen Hollanders, whom they aped even to the very patronage of painters; or, at the other end of this bastard brotherhood of righteousness, sore-eyed wretches trundling their flat carts of second-hand goods, or initiating a squalid ghetto of diamond-cutting and cigar-making in oozy alleys and on the refuse-laden borders of treeless canals.
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"Bastard!"
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And we have our eyes towards Jah, Jah, who will make haste to help us and to save us, that the Children of Iniquity shall not hurt us; and towards whom our hearts pant and are consumed within us: who shall give us Talons of Iron to be worthy to stand under the shadow of thine ass.
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"Strange," he reflected, "that they who cannot even read should so run to damn."
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'Tis they who egg him on to fight us, the hussies!"
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For, though the Zaddik, who gave his life to helping his neighbor's or his enemy's ass lying under its burden, as enjoined in Exodus xxiii.
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Christ rode on an ass, now the ass rides on Christ."