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" For my own part, I agree with those who think that the tribes of Germany are free from all taint of intermarriages with foreign nations, and that they appear as a distinct, unmixed race, like none but themselves. Hence, too, the same physical peculiarities... "
Tacitus - Page 30
by William Bodham Donne - 1873 - 194 pages
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The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus. Tr. by A.J. Church and W.J. Brodribb

Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1868 - 180 pages
...like none but themselves. Hence, too, the same physical peculiarities throughout so vast a population. All have fierce blue eyes, red hair, huge frames,...and hunger their climate and their soil inure them. Climate and soil. Precious metals. 5 Their country, though somewhat various in appearance, yet generally...
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The Commentaries of Caesar, Volume 9

Anthony Trollope - 1877 - 420 pages
...with its wild country, its inclement skies, its sullen manners and aspect, unless it were his home 1 " He is nearer the truth in saying that the name Germany...German soldiers by heat is more than once mentioned by Eoman historians. To his statement that the eyes of the Germans were grey or blue and fierce in expression,...
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The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus: And the Dialogue on Oratory

Cornelius Tacitus - 1877 - 234 pages
...like none but themselves. Hence, too, the same physical peculiarities throughout so vast a population. All have fierce blue eyes, red hair, huge frames,...They are less able to bear laborious work. Heat and CHAP. iv. thirst they cannot in the least endure ; to cold and hunger their climate and their soil...
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The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus: And the Dialogue on Oratory

Cornelius Tacitus - 1877 - 276 pages
...frames, fit only for a sudden exertion. They are less able to bear laborious work. Heat and CHAP. iv. thirst they cannot in the least endure ; to cold and hunger their climate and their soil inure them. Climate and soil. Precious metals. CHAP. v. Their country, though somewhat various in appearance, yet...
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Selections from the Sources of English History: Being a Supplement to Text ...

Charles William Colby - 1899 - 398 pages
...like none but themselves. Hence, too, the same physical peculiarities throughout so vast a population. All have fierce blue eyes, red hair, huge frames,...and hunger their climate and their soil inure them. . . . Mercury1 is the deity whom they chiefly worship, and on certain days they deem it right to sacrifice...
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Selections from the Sources of English History: Being a Supplement to Text ...

Charles William Colby - 1899 - 378 pages
...like none but themselves. Hence, too, the same physical peculiarities throughout so vast a population. All have fierce blue eyes, red hair, huge frames,...and thirst they cannot in the least endure ; to cold ami hunger their climate and their soil inure them. . . . Mercury1 is the deity whom they chiefly worship,...
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Source-book of English History: For the Use of Schools and Readers

Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 526 pages
...none but themselves. Henfce, too, the same physical peculiarities throughout so vast a population. All have fierce blue eyes, red hair, huge frames,...and hunger their climate and their soil inure them. . . . Arms, military manoeuvres, and discipline . . . But few use swords or long lances. They carry...
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Source-book of English History: For the Use of Schools and Readers

Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 540 pages
...too, the to the most advanced same physical peculiarities throughout so vast a population, must be All have fierce blue eyes, red hair, huge frames, fit only for applying to* a sudden exertion. They are less able to bear laborious th,ose Parts i ,1-, • ofthecounwork....
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Readings in Ancient History

Hutton Webster, Ph.d - 1913 - 316 pages
...same physical peculiarities throughout so vast a population. All have fierce blue eyes, red hair, and huge frames, fit only for a sudden exertion. They...and hunger their climate and their soil inure them. Their country, though somewhat varied in appearance, yet generally either bristles with forests or...
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Readings in Ancient History

Hutton Webster - 1913 - 296 pages
...same physical peculiarities throughout so vast a population. All have fierce blue eyes, red hair, and huge frames, fit only for a sudden exertion. They are less able to bear laborious work. Heat and 1 The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus and the Dialogue on Oratory, translated by AJ Church and WJ Brodribb....
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