A Treatise on the Situation, Manners, and Inhabitants of Germany: And The Life of AgricolaW. Baxter, 1823 - 220 páginas |
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Página 41 - or even admit of contiguous settlements. They dwell, scattered and separate, as a spring, a meadow, or a grove may chance to invite them. Their villages are laid out, not like ours in rows of adjoining buildings; but every one surrounds his house with a vacant space
Página 8 - IV. I concur in opinion with those who suppose the Germans never to have intermarried with other nations; but to be a race, pure, unmixed, and stamped with a distinct character. Hence a family-likeness pervades the whole, though their numbers are so great: eyes stern and blue; ruddy hair; large
Página 6 - too, ye Bards! whom sacred raptures fire, To chant your heroes to your country's lyre ; Who consecrate, in your immortal strain, Brave patriot souls in righteous battle slain ; Securely now the tuneful task renew, And noblest themes in deathless songs pursue.
Página 35 - but it is not customary for any person to assume arms till the state has approved his ability to use them. Then, in the midst of the assembly, either one of the chiefs, or the father, or a relation, equips the youth with a shield and javelin*. These are to them the
Página 31 - who have on this occasion a coercive power. Then the king, or chief, with such as are conspicuous for age, birth, military renown, or eloquence ? , are heard ; and gain attention rather from their ability to persuade, than their authority to command. If a proposal displease, the assembly reject it by an inarticulate murmur ; if it prove agreeable, they clash their javelins
Página 178 - and of our fame. The extremity of ' Britain is now disclosed; and whatever is ' unknown becomes an object of magnitude. ' But there is no nation beyond us ; nothing ' but waves and rocks, and the still more ' hostile Romans, whose arrogance we cannot ' escape by obsequiousness and submission. ' These plunderers of the world, after
Página 53 - and robust; and the children inherit the vigour of their parents. Children are regarded with equal affection by their maternal uncles' as by their fathers: some even consider this as the more sacred bond of consanguinity, and prefer it in the requisition of hostages, as if it held the mind by a
Página 57 - with respect to the rights of hospitality, between a stranger and an acquaintance. The departing guest is presented with whatever he may ask for; and with the same freedom a boon is desired in return. They are pleased with presents; but think no obligation incurred either when they give or receive
Página 179 - Our children and relations are ' by the appointment of nature rendered the ' dearest of all things to us. These are torn ' away by levies to serve in foreign lands '. ' Our wives and sisters, though they should ; escape the violation of hostile force, are ' polluted under names of friendship and
Página 29 - On affairs of smaller moment, the chiefs consult; on those of greater importance, the whole community; yet with this circumstance, that what is referred to the decision of the people, is first maturely discussed by the chiefs