...Strangely enough they make games of hazard a serious occupation even when sober, and so venturesome are they about gaining or losing, that, when every other...stronger, he suffers himself to be bound and sold. Such is their stubborn persistency in a bad practice ; they themselves call it honour. Slaves of this...

...nothing of their drinking, "as to their gambling, the Germans appear to have surpassed the most civilized of mankind. It was a serious occupation even when...of their own persons. The loser goes into voluntary slaver}'. Though the younger and the stronger he suffers himself to be bound and sold." — P. 52....

...horses, like the Cossack ponies, were hardy and capable of enduring long journeys, but shaggy and low ot stature. The Batavians alone among the northern nations...Among the numerous varieties of the human race who nocked to Eome, the Germans had many representatives. They usually formed the Caesar's guard, as the...

...Strangely enough they make games of hazard a serious occupation even when sober,, and so venturesome are they about gaining or losing, that, when every other...stronger, he suffers himself to be bound and sold. Such is their stubborn persistency in a bad practice ; they themselves call it honour. Slaves of this...

...Strangely enough they make games of hazard a serious occupation even when sober, and so venturesome are they about gaining or losing, that, when every other...stronger, he suffers himself to be bound and sold. Such is their stubborn persistency in a bad practice ; they themselves call it honour. Slaves of this...

...Strangely enough they make games of hazard a serious occupation even when sober, and so venturesome are they about gaining or losing, that, when every other...voluntary slavery ; though the younger and stronger, he sutlers himself to be bound and sold. Such is their stubborn persistency in a bad practice ; they themselves...

...Strangely enough they make games of hazard a serious occupation even when sober, and so venturesome are they about gaining or losing, that, when every other...stronger, he suffers himself to be bound and sold. Such is their stubborn persistency in a bad practice ; they themselves call it honour. Slaves of this...

...STRANGELY enough they make games of hazard a serious occupation even when sober, and so venturesome are they about gaining or losing, that, when every other...stronger, he suffers himself to be bound and sold. Such is their stubborn persisiency in a bad practice ; they themselves call it honour." — Cornelius...

...of all they stake their liberty and person. The loser goes into voluntary slavery. Though he may be the younger and stronger, he suffers himself to be bound and sold. This shows their wrongheaded obstinacy; they call it themselves a sense of honor. Slaves thus obtained...

...Strangely enough, they make games of hazard a serious occupation even when sober. So venturesome are they about gaining or losing, that, when every other...stronger, he suffers himself to be bound and sold. Such is their stubborn persistency in a bad custom; they themselves call it honor. Slaves of this kind...