While it may not be entirely accurate to call these phrases 'anti-Jewish tinged gibes', as the Jewish Telegraph reporter did, they are nonetheless characterised by allosemitism's construction of Jewish difference.

First, The writer, positively asserts, That Wood's halfpence were current among us for several months with the universal approbation of all people, without one single gainsayer.

What counsel give you in this weighty cause?

I had resolved in my own mind, that to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness; and I banished from my mind every thought that could lead to a different conclusion.