 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1815 - 244 pages
...others hate found monuments with Greek inscriptions in Germany, but not of so early an age. dies e, powerful in sudden exertions, but impatient of toil...are accustomed by their climate and soil to endure. V. The land, though somewhat varied in its aspect, is yet universally shagged with forests, or deformed... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1823 - 240 pages
...the tallest people in. Europe.. toil and labour, least of all capable of sustaining thirst and beat. Cold and hunger they are accustomed by their climate and ' soil to endure. The land, though somewhat varied in its aspect, is yet universally shagged \vilh forests, or deformed... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1838 - 560 pages
...Europe. Tantum ad impetum •valida'] Powerful only in sudden exertions, impatient of toil and labor, and least of all capable of sustaining thirst and heat....accustomed, by their climate and soil, to endure. Sect. 5. Satis ferax\ Sive segetibus. Sims honor aut gloria frontis'] Honor est pulchritudo e pinguidine... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1841 - 646 pages
...Europe. Tuntum ad impetum vatida'] ' Powerful only in sudden exertions, impatient of toil and labor, and least of all capable of sustaining thirst and heat. Cold and hunger they are accustomed, by their enmate and .soil, to endure .' Sect. 5. Soiís ferax] Sive segetibus. Suus honor aut gloria frontis]... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1847 - 214 pages
...temperantia, { 10 : iisdem nemoribus. Also of totidem \ 26. Minime-assueterunt. " Least of all. are they capable of sustaining thirst and heat ; cold and hunger, they are accustomed, by their soil and climate, to endure." Ky. The force of minime is confined to the first clause, and the proper... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1854 - 528 pages
...pervades the whole, though their numbers are so great: eyes stern and blue; ruddy hair; largo bodies,2 powerful in sudden exertions, but impatient of toil...are accustomed by their climate and soil to endure. 5. The land, though varied to a considerable extent in its aspect, is yet universally shagged with... | |
 | Gustav Solling - 1863 - 436 pages
...classical and present era. According to Tacitus, whose book, ' De situ, moribus et populis Germanise,' written AD, 98, contains the fullest account about...its great reformer, so truly and patriotically says : — ' Doss keine, welcbe lebt, mit Deutscbland's Sprache sicb In deu zu kiihnen Wettstreit wage,... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1874 - 544 pages
...and blue; ruddy hair; largo bodies,' powerful in sudden exertions, but impatient of toil and labor, least of all capable of sustaining thirst and heat....are accustomed by their climate and soil to endure. 5. The land, though varied to a considerable extent in its aspect, is yet universally shagged with... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1875 - 228 pages
...temperantia ; § 10: iisdem nemoribus. Also of totidem § 26. Minime-assueverunt. "Least of all, are they capable of sustaining thirst and heat; cold and hunger, they are accustomed, by their soil and climate, to endure." Ky. The force of minime a confined to the first clause, and the proper... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1877 - 228 pages
...temperautia ; § 10: iisdem nemoribus. Also of totidem § 26. Miniine-assuevenmt. " Least of all, are they capable of sustaining thirst and heat; cold and hunger, they are accustomed, by their soil and climate, to endure." Ky. The force of minims is confined to the first clause, and the proper... | |
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I concur in opinion with those who deem 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... 
