 Society of Friends" was formed (1792), a community of illuminati within the community, comprising solely unmarried men, whose chief aim was to regard each other as brothers, and to support each other in distress and illness; but their collateral intention...  History of the Jews - Page 418by Heinrich Graetz - 1895Full view - About this book
 | Heinrich Graetz - Jews - 1892 - 864 pages
...support each other in distress and illness ; but their collateral intention was to spread culture and to promote enlightenment. The "Friends" took a saying...existence, the Union numbered more than a hundred members from the capital. Young men in Konigsberg, Breslau and Vienna, joined the ranks. A bond of cordial... | |
 | Israel Zangwill - Jews - 1898 - 544 pages
...remained also — as the quotation went on which Mendelssohn's disciples had chosen as their motto — " To love the beautiful, to desire the good, to do the best." Mendelssohn with his ordered scheme of harmonious living, with his equal grasp of thought and life,... | |
 | Self-culture - 1899 - 972 pages
...pale ghost of living realities < To seek for truth > — Yes, it was oneideal. But there remained also to love the beautiful, to desire the good, to do the best.'" The reader of Zangwill's " King of Schnorrers» and "Children of the Ghetto" closes this book with... | |
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