British Israelites Maintain

Famous quotes containing the words british, israelites and/or maintain:

    “I know an Englishman,
    Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
    —George Chapman c. 1559–1634, British dramatist, poet, translator. repr. In Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Tragedies, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (1910)

    “The Israelites groaned under their slavery, and cried out. Out of the slavery their cry for help rose up to God.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 2:23.

    “Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.”
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)