rambams

Updated: May 20, 2025

Strange people the Jews endowed with every gift but one, and that the highest, genius divine, genius which can alone make of men demigods, and elevate them above earth and what is earthy and what is grovelling; without which a clever nation and who more clever than the Jews? may have Rambams in plenty, but never a Fielding nor a Shakespeare; a Rothschild and a Mendoza, yes but never a Kean nor a Belcher.

George Henry Borrow - The Pocket George Borrow

Strange people the Jews endowed with every gift but one, and that the highest, genius divine genius which can alone make of men demigods, and elevate them above earth and what is earthy and grovelling; without which a clever nation and, who more clever than the Jews? may have Rambams in plenty, but never a Fielding nor a Shakespeare. A Rothschild and a Mendoza, yes but never a Kean nor a Belcher.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

Strange people the Jews—endowed with every gift but one, and that the highest, genius divine—genius which can alone make of men demigods, and elevate them above earth and what is earthy and grovelling; without which a clever nation—and who more clever than the Jews?—may have Rambams in plenty, but never a Fielding nor a Shakespeare. A Rothschild and a Mendoza, yes—but never a Kean nor a Belcher.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

Strange people the Jews endowed with every gift but one, and that the highest, genius divine, genius which can alone make of men demigods, and elevate them above earth and what is earthy and what is grovelling; without which a clever nation and who more clever than the Jews? may have Rambams in plenty, but never a Fielding nor a Shakespeare; a Rothschild and a Mendoza, yes but never a Kean nor a Belcher.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest