| Tancred: Or, The New Crusade Contributor(s): Disraeli, Benjamin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1490408800 ISBN-13: 9781490408804 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2013 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.25 lbs) 388 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Excerpt: ...to an ambush and countless odds. Do you think a man who charges through a defile crowned with matchlocks, and shoots men through the head, as I am told he did, in the name of Christ, will owe his freedom to my Jewish charity? He will burn the Temple first. This young man has the sword of Gideon. You know little of the world, Eva, and nothing of young Englishmen. There is not a race so proud, so wilful, so rash, and so obstinate. They live in a misty clime, on raw meats, and wines of fire. They laugh at their fathers, and never say a prayer. They pass their days in the chase, gaming, and all violent courses. They have all the power of the State, and all its wealth; and when they can wring no more from their peasants, they plunder the kings of India.' 'But this young Englishman, you say, is pious?' said Eva. Ah this young Englishman; why did he come here? What is Jerusalem to him, or he to Jerusalem? His Intendant, himself a prisoner, waits here. I must see him; he is one of the people of my patron, which proves our great friend's interest in this youth. O day thrice cursed day of a thousand evil eyes day of a new captivity |
