Friars and Filipinos: An Abridged Translation of Dr. José Rizal's Tagalog Novel, "Noli Me Tangere"St. James Press, 1900 - 276 pages |
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Popular passages
Page 95 - Spanish : the school is the basis of society, the school is the book in which is written the future of the nations! Show us the schools of a people and We will show you what that people is.
Page 123 - I've seen for the first time how it is possible for one to be a good Spaniard without ceasing to be a good Filipino and to love his country...
Page 261 - We, during three centuries, have extended them our hands, we have asked love of them, we have yearned to call them brothers, and how do they answer us ? With insults and jests, denying us even the chance character of human beings. There is no God, there is no hope, there is no humanity ; there is nothing but the right of might ! " Ibarra was nervous, his whole body trembled.
Page 205 - Elias was transfigured; standing uncovered, with his manly face illuminated by the moon, there was something extraordinary about him. He shook his long hair, and went on: " Don't you see how everything is awakening ? The sleep has lasted for centuries, but one day the thunderbolt 1 struck, and in striking, infused life.
Page 118 - If Justice knows how to punish, she also knows how to reward and that she is not always blind.— Rizal KATIPUNAN 1.
Page 120 - I know what I would have done had I been in your place," was the placid response, after it had been carefully weighed in his mind.
Page 79 - The people do not complain because they have no voice; they do not move because they are in a stupor; and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen how their hearts bleed. But some day you will see and hear! Then woe unto those who draw their strength from ignorance and fanaticism, who take their pleasure in fraud, and who work under cover of night, confident that all are...
Page v - Noli Me Tangere," the best picture of the life of the people of those islands under Spanish rule, and the clearest exposition of the government problems which Spain failed to solve, and with which our own people must deal. It occurred to me then an English translation of Rizal's work would be of value at the present...
Page 173 - Of all that golden dream, of all those cares wasted during months, of all those fatigues and labors, there is gained only a peseta, the ashes left from so much smoke. In, this foyer the fellow of scantiest intelligence is led to talk and argue; the most frivolous will conscientiously examine the subject of consideration, weigh argument, contemplate, spread the wings and feel the muscles of the animals. Some go welldressed, followed and surrounded by the partisans of their cocks...