Unable or unwilling to pronounce what Bjorn had said when asked for his family name, he asked for clarity on its meaning - believing, as many Americans did, that every foreign name must mean something - and he noted that he did not recognize it on the ship Manifest of Alien Passengers. ...
“Jack Randolph” had recently sat to him for his portrait. “By the bye [the letter continues] that little ‘hydra and chimera dire,’ Jarvis, is in prodigious circulation at Baltimore. The gentlemen have all voted him a rare wag and most brilliant wit; and the ladies pronounce him one...
Undoubtedly “the Book of the Law” thus discovered was that body of legislation which lies at the heart of the Deuteronomic code; and this was never again lost sight of by the Jewish people. It was less than fifty years after this that Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the city and the temple and...