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Excerpt from A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar, Vol. 2: And Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World History.] The manners of the ancient germans'are defcribed by the elegant and manly pencil of Tacitus, the R0 man hil'corian. They were a brave and independant race of men, and peculiarly dif'cinguiihed by their love of liberty and arms They Oppofed the force of the Roman empire, not in its orig n or in its decline, but after it had arrived at matu rity, and {till continued 1n its full vigour. The country was divided into a number. Of principalities, independant of each other, though occafionally connected by a military union for defending themfelves again ft fuch enemies as threatened the liberty of them/ Tn this lituation Germany remained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.