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ON THE GERMANY. 157mus quisque ac bellicosissimus nihil agens, delegata domus
et penatium et agrorum cura feminis senibusque, et in Fr- missimo cuique ex familia, ipsi hebent mira diversitate naturne, cum iidem homines sic ament inertiam et oderint quietem Barro , in his Traneis in Muther Africa I, 157., sax in his account os ille affers :- While the me rare employed in rearin an attending the catile, the omen aroen aged in the assair of the ouse, and in culti vati ne heground . V The Chines emplo their omen in cultiva tinxi heground as e re informe by the fame rite p. 141 - have frequently Seen omen assiSi in to dra a sori oflight plough, an ille barro Q leu hoss. in ine of his Ρrinis alien Domira vings suppo sed orae made in China, Folies, is Pini stati not, a Womano ille sanae plough,ith ans Αὐ should iliis e the faci, ille Chines rare not singular,
i we a credit ille atura Historianis antiquit 16, 21.),
dram ille plough hrough the soli. post imbres vili asello,
et a parte altera jugi anu omerem trahente vidimus scindi. In the Province of tangse noli, in iis More common han
indolence was prevalent among the men, hil ille omen were assiduousi emplo3ed in domestic occupations or in thela bours of agriculture. Ch. 8. Quanquam severa illic matrimonia, nec ullam morum partem magis laudaveris. r. Bellis Antermon fausin his raret 1, 3I. that Urit musti observe so the o nou os ille ulmuck omen that the are ver hones and sincere, an se of them leWd adulter is a crime carce
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153 ADDITIONAL NOTESeverae armos.' Meraild in p. 33. :- They belle ve viri uel ead tora appiness, an vice to misery for, hen est rei sodo hat ille thin wrong, the repl in a proverb, Thoughi lini se e harp, it cannot cut iis ivli landie V r. Turne in his Account os Tibet p. 352.:- Instances of inconstanc are rare ut is a married emale te found toviolat he compaci, the crime is expiated by corpora punishmentu and the favoured love effaces the obloqu3 of his transgression by a pecuniar fine. r. arti in his rareis in Africa p. 296.: - When adulter occurs, it is generat lylest to the optionis the person injured ei thoro sello heculprit, or accepi Such a ransoria for hina, as e may th in lioqui valent to the injursi has susta in ed. In the uirgivolume osmarris' Collection Os Voyages and oravel p.799 we are old that he omen O Madagascar re verysamoiis sor hei fidelit to their usbaniis, Who place sogreat a value pon hem, that he wili carce undertuliennythingis moment illio ut thei ad vice 'Ch. 19 Literarum secreta viri pariter ac feminc ignorant. Sunt qui acitum istis verbis negasse existimant, artem scribendi Germanis fuisse cognitam, in eaque sententia fuisse deprehendo Georgium ornium Hist. Philos L. II, c. l. p. li 7. Hermannuin Conringium
Disp. de Nomothetica . p. I. Strauchium Diss. I. ad
Taciti Germ. c. 3, j. 3 p. 9. lautum Hachen bergium in Germania media Diss. Π, . . p. 136. Cl. Jac Burkhardum de Fatis Ling. Lat in Germ. c. I. p. 25, 6 ι ' Id idem PeriS laudati Ρ. II, c. I. P. 1 sqq. et-Leibnitium in Aetis Hud. Suppl. T. IV. P. 238. quemque primo loco Dominure debebam, Andream Altha merum, qui hunc in modun Taciti verba explanat Comment ad i.):-Germania retus studiosissima Martis cultriae Palladem Musasque penitus ignorovit, iterarum mysteria nescivit, nec ullam honestarum discipKnarum scholum literarumque studium habuit: nulli exstiterunt ingentiarum artium periti, cetera. At nec desunt, qui Germunos olim ne pingere quidem literas scivis Se Dei Siaadere sibi non possunt, ideoque Tacili verba de literatura arcana, vel elleris 3 thologicis, ut magici 8, 3pere n-lunt placuit haec opinio Morhosio L. de Germanorum Ling. P. II, c. 6. P. 274.hielgio vid. Mortius. Omeisio L
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ON THE GERMANY. 159 Introd. ad Poesin Germ. p. 9. Rei manno Cl. His f. Liter.
Germ. L. II. Seet Ι, . 33. P. 23. cf. Spera erus Hist. Germ. L. I, c. 6, . . . I. Egeriolso Misceli Lips T. I. Obs. p. 256. aliis, quibus id visus est Tacitus significasse per literarum Secreta. Denique alii, altius inspecto Taciti loco,
per literarum secreta capi debere censuerunt epistola amatorias, eurumque commercium Germanis inusitatum fuisse,
Tacito significari est hoc in numero insignis ille Taciti Interpres, ipsius, itemque Berneggerus Quoest. XCΙX ad Taciti Germ.: ac recentior aetate hanc amplexati sunt ententia inseri hostis Notit. S. Rom. Imp. L. I, c. 2, . I lit. f. ICtus Academiae Iuliae praestantissimus, Thomasius Disp. de Hominibus propriis Germanorum l. IO. ac Guillingius Hist Philos Mor. c. 6, . . D. 6. viri illuStres, Georgius kesius Grammar. Franco- Theot. p. 2. Jac Carolus Spe ne rus Nolit Germ. antiq. Proclem. . . Ot f. ubi et Olerum atque ron ovium hujus interpretationis approbatores laudat,)Godo D. Hec litius Germ. Sacr. et liter P. I, L. II, C.
10. p. l. , I. A. Egenolsus p. 257. et qui singulari id edisseruit Disputatione Andreas Ludovicus Oenigs mannus Disp. de Origine Literarum amatoriarum, iton, 708. , cui subscribit Mich. Lilient halius in Selectis Hist. et Liter. Obs X, . . p. 223. . Ad me quod attinet, facile perspicio,
Secundam, quntia dixi, Sentelatiam a vero aberrare, primam vero ac tertium amice Conjungetida existimo Tacitum enim de amatoriis epistolis esse capiendum, satis et abunde Patet e verbis, quae et Prdecedunt, et Sequuntur proxime : en
integrum locum, Ergo epta pudicitia seminae in Germania
agunt, nullis spectaculorum illecebris, nullis conviviorum irritationibus corrupice literarum secreta viri pariter ac femino ignorant paucissima in tam numeroSa gente sedulteria, quorum poena ΓαSenS, et maritis permisga: c. ad Romanarum Suarum mores re8Picit a Citu S, quas Spectaculorum conviviorumque Occa Sion e corrumpi solere, nec minus clandestino literarum commercio, cum On Staret in vulgus,
talia in Germania fieri negat a C. Germanorumque pudicitiae debilum tribuit praeconium. Ac rectissime monuit subtilis
ille Thomasius Disp. cit . . 6. huncce Tacili librum interpretaturo probe considerandum Sse, Tacitum Romanorum Germanorumque more tot isto libro inter se contendere,
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atque adeo ubique alterum mentis oculum ad Romanos Suos,
alterum ad Germanos intendere inccidit quippe a cito idem, quod Francisco et rarchae, qui suis in Epistolis L. I, EpiSt. 3 p. 9.), Germaniam tandem, inquit, Rhenique ripas
affigi contemplatus sollicite mores hominum, et adspectu telluris incognite delectatus, ac singula cum nostri conferens. Negat itaque Tacitus, moris esse in Germania, illicitos ana ore epistolis ultro citroque missis, vel instarn mare, vel inflammatos fovere utque plere ui Romae deo non erant incognita illa amantium colloquia epistolica, ut, ni tis a malidi praecipuam hanc fuisse puriem, vel ex vidio notuna sit, qui de accurate scribendi hujus Peneris epistolis Praecepta dedit, limi orsus in mod iam de Arte m. I, 457. Ergo eat, et blandis peraretur liter verbis: clandestinas igitur hascρ epistolas Tae vocat iliterarum Secreta Graeco usus loquendi Diodo, ui alibi locorum dixit plana urbis, inania amne aspera maris, incerta belli, α Da ventorum, quae una cum ulli quam plurimis hujus generis sormulis,
apud Latinos Seriptores obviis, exhibet in Hel nolexia p.
I 26 seqq. sua echiae rus CBeterum non solum Dirantoriarum, sed omnium omnino literarum usu Germanos carui S Se in C.
docere, haud sacile abnuet, qui ut lentius 'sius verba ex Penderit Literorum, inquit, secreta viri pariter ac feminin ignorant, h. e. noli putare Germanos Romanorum more epistolistiti amoris internuntiis imo vero an tum abest, ut hoc modo umorem inter se concilient et alans, ut non feminc solum,qum quidem et Nomo per tenuem teris operant dant, Sed etiam viri literas ea arare amatorias, clandestinoque uti epiStolarum commercio, prorsus nesciant atqui amatorias qui scribere nescit epistolas, eum Omnis artis scribendi e X-Perteria PS Se Oportet cribere enim qui valet, idem ad Gly- Ceriam suam dare potest iteras : quod tuitur de Getis olim
perscriptum reliquit vidius e Ponto IlI, 8, 2 l. arma iis
esse pro libris, Hos habet hinc alamos, hos hinc habet ora libellos, Hinc riget in nostris Maii me, Musa locis idem vel dici de majoribus nostris poterat: A. M. DCCXXII prodiit ille berque J. Guil Berueri l. et in illustrem nuper
locum evecti Prosessoris, Disp. de eodem hoc Tac loco, in qua contendit ad ac per literarum secreta tantummodo amatorias
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describi literas, adeoque non obstare illud ac testimonium, quo minus veteres Germani credantur fuisse teris exculti: videat igitur lector, uter rem acu tetigerit, Bergerus ne an ego, qui ita sentio ac loqui de literis amatoriis, ut simul omne literarum genus a Germani removerit.' Chr. Aug. Heu
manni Poecile T. I, L. . p. 636-46. Ch. 8. uel e quoque nobiles. An nubiles 8' .me in s. This conjecture is ver ingenio us-the propos e alteratione Onsist in the mere substitution si foris an ille similarit os hos letters in ancientis s. is so areat, that theyma have been, and undo ub te di osten have been conlaundeclb ille Opγisis But the passage requires no alteration hate ver-the conjecture malles no improve ment in the ense orthe language of Tac. it violates probabilitriit is uia supported by that historica record Which abundanti vindicates the
Common ea ling and it is contrar even to the practice of the Turks in ille present contest illi the Greelis :- Igitur ad Germanos reseram, quod generatim a Suet. Aug. I. scriptum: A quibusdam novum genus obsidum,femina eae eretentavit, quod negligere murium pignora sciebat Etsi cur id Tranquillo novum Romani ipsi virgines obsides orsenae olim dederunt, interque eas Cloeliam Athenaeus id primum inventum Cleonγm Spartano vult, Parum Vere 13, 28. 'Εμοὶ
Metapontinos, imo credo ceteros Italiae populos, habuisse antiquitus hunc morem.' Lips. The rationa and roasoua-ble commentator ill reject illi firmites at the attempis fingenio iis, but rasti criti cs, at improving the sense O digni hin ille dictionis the ancient riter-he Will have re-COurseo emendation oni in cases of rea necessit D; onlyin instances, here ille received re ad in violate iii propriet os the language, is a deviation romulie practice of theauthor is incapable of an satis sactor interpretation is
contrar to the opinion os the aut hor, o to the testimon ofcontemporaries, o involves an Serious contradiction o any
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These Monuments of depurtei Genius must not be pollute db pro sane and unde the impio iis rei elices os repatringitiei desecis aut os improvin thei graces . Noth in is Mantinisi Om a modern chiset, here ille blemisti is in the oldani original Orita an noth in can be ei ther se sui or Ornamentat, hici is at iace fictilious and meretriciolis Allsuch in item pis ut improve ment a re like eighte ning thebenuties flaradise, o mending the uiris El3sium, V Robt.
pili. Horace Epist. I, II, 30 has suid that even in place posses sed Os no loca attractions appines may befound is, can sin sufficient equanimit io ei onit, Est Ulubris, animus si te non de scit equuS. Diendis mine notaeniarhable sor brillianc of intellect crprurienc of conjecture gravet Proposed to rea est ubi vis, an improve ment, hici belong to the clas Os una ut horised,
Ch. 38. Insigne gentis Suevorum obliquare crinem, nodoque substringere. Si G. tauriton, in his Account of Lord Macariney' Embassy to China I, 2 l. in soruas us ilia thewomen of the Chusan Ista nil had thei hai pluited audcoiled, be comingly, into a lino upon the crown Os ih head ,
ascis sonae times seen On the se male statues os an ii qui ty. 'Robortieron' Letters of Literature London, 785. p. 61.:- a Four Observations On the barbaris in Pso me modern
customs may be adde those, hich aris 1 roin the ollowinglines of Iuvenal in his Sth Satire: erula quis stupuit Germani lumina, farum
Cresariem madido forquentem cornua cirro
Who ould have thought that our side- curis and riggledtoupee had such antiquity but ulong illi that suci barbaris in acto be theriashion os the Germans, re the lest their native oods Tacitus, in his excellent Book of the Mun-ners of the Germans, mentions their Wistin thei loci sint horns and rings, ache calis them. tris curious to observe that a custom, invented in the mos barbaro us times,
should again te brought into vogue at the mos polite Period 'Ch. 6. Cedere loco, dummodo rursus instes, consilii quam formidinis arbitrantur se stigmatis the Indians as
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coWardi and reacherous, e cause the use strata gem in Warsare, in presere iaceri open force; ut in his the arefuli justi fied by thei rude codem hono ur. The are earlytaught ilia strata gem is prat Seriori h ille bravest Warriorthiniis it no disgrace to tur in silence, and ηke ver ad-vantage of his oe irium plis in the superior cras and sagaci ty by Which he has been nabled io surpris and
destro an nem y. In deed, manci naturali more prone to subit et than pen valour, Win to his plusica wealinessin comparison illi ther animal s. The are nilowed illi natura Heapon O de lance, illi Orias, illi iussis, Withhoos an is lotas: ut man has to depend n his superior sagacit3. In nil his enco tinter With these, his Proper ene-mies, e resoris to iratagenari and when e perverset turiis his hostilii against his sellow-man, he at ires continues the Same subile mode os ursare. The naturna principi of Waris to do the mos harnari ou enem Wiit, ille lea St arm too urselves and illis of c Ourseris O be esse credis si rata gem. That chivali ous courage, hici, induces us io despis the suggestions os prudelice, and to rusti in the face of certain danger, is ille ossSpi in os societ y, and produc ed by education. Geon re Crayon' Shetch-Book 2, 16 I. Ch. 3. Nigra Aliorum scuta, tincta corpora, atras ad proelia noctes legunt. Si G. Sta union relate in his account of Lori Macariney' Embassy to China 2 455. that the Chines tro ops carr a hielis fiambo a r uitan, ain te dhideo usi io represent dragons o tigers' head Willi operim Ouilis uni enorm Ous te ei li,' and that much si res is laiduponitis terris appea rance.' Ogilb say in his accounto Iapan p. 22. - To e Cia in lacti amon them signi- fies triumph and ογ, hic his verγwhere et Se re the abiis os molaria in and Sori Ow onely hi te among Si them eingilie res of los and uisa Ster. VCh. 43. am primi in omnibus proeliis oculi incuntur.
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16 li ADDITIONAL NOTESCh. l. Luitur enim etiam homicidium certo armentorum ac pecorum numero. r. arsiten in his Histor of Suma-tra P. 176. saJ that ali punishments area the laris of the countr commutabie se fines. Ch. . Deorum maxime Mercurium colunt, cur certis diebus humanis quoque hostilis litare fas habent, O MOX e-hiculum et vestes, et, si credere velis, numen ipsum Secreto lacu
abluitur. Servi ministrant, quos statim idem lacus haurit.' Though the existenc os a Deit has been admitte a Melli the darkest a the mos enlightened ages, and though itis equali supporte by the testimon os tradition and theauth 0rit os reason; et the ideas enteriai ne os his attribules have been much diversified by vario iis cause in ille
Constitutionis meia' miniis, o in the circumstances of their situation. The ori heri Nations fierce and uia polis hed in thei manners, assaited by the severities of an inclement hy, and habituat e to the contemplationis rear WaSle Or rug ge mountains, have arra3ed their Deities in very terribiequality. Among the inhabitant os ille East, hose tem PerSseem to e eas in a soner mouid, and hos senses reaccusiomed to more delicate nil more ea utila prospeciso nature, the charactersis thei God wear a lovelle aSpeci.
The sanae propensit in ille ors hippe io assimilate ille objectis his ors histo his o noulin passioris, o hi οWnfavOurite tene is may be traced through individual and secis. The God of the benevolent an is, in his contem Plation, surro unde With the mili lustre os benevolence: the God of the malignant is seen ont Withoro iis of dis- Pleas ure, an armeli, illi the thun derbolt of vengeance. nili Deit o Zeno e pereeive much os the suileia dignityan harsi inflexibilit3, in hic holi philosopher himselfPlace the supreme good and pon ille sanie principies Epicurus scribet to his God ilia exemption rom ille solicitude os care, and the busti os activi ty, which e represente as essentia to appiness, both human and divitie. But in the God, honi Christians are commauded O dore, Dono of thos imperfections an e discerned, Whicli areus uali and justi imputet to the peculiar Senii ments findividua is, o the genera habit o nations. Without thejargonis science, and Without the runt of enthusiasm, e s
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preseni ext iis illi ait the persectioris, hic hisere everassigne to the divinit by the reason of the contemplative philosopher, o the anc of the en rapture Poet. V Dr. Whito' Bampion Lecture-Sermons p. 417. Edn. d. Hum3n sacrifices a re practi sed at ille and victi Ista nil se the Museum, O the Literary useum, o 45. p. 3 l. Ch. 46. Hi tamen inter Germanos potius referuntur, quia et domos sngunt, et scuta gestant, et peditum Suic pernicitate gaudent quoe omnia diversa Sarmatis sunt, in plaustro equoque viventibus. U Lectio Munt non est sollicitanda nam opponitur in plaustris virere. Sarmat et in plaustris trahebant domos vagas, Sed Venedi domos figebant, i. e.
sxas, non mobiles habebant. Fingere quoque non convenit τψ plaustro vivere, neque bene dicitur absolute pro Struere,
5. . OO To this opiniones assent, and the phra se isel is sussicienti vindicate by the sol lowing verses os Iuvenali 2. Laudo tamen, acuis quod sedem, ere Cumis Destinet atque unum civem donare Sibyllar. Torax an abo de is a el known phras in Englisti. r-nesti, however, as of a disserent opinion :- Donios Aunt.
Sic ex meis libris primae Lipsit Edd. Sed id est vitium operarum, quod fuit in Editione ignobili, cujus exemplum ipsius
accommodavit praelis typographorum et tamen id ab omnibus seqq. Editoribus Taciti servatum est Colerus etiam X-plicavit Edd. et t. in his Rom. et or. et bonae ante Lip-Sium omnes, quibus usus sum, habent frigunt, quod restitui.
Fingunt cedes hi populi, e luto e. ut rustici Osiri cum Sarmatae in plaustris figant vehantque, a quibus illos populos hoc nomine diserte disi inguit. Sic ap. Ovid. Fast. I, 58. hirundo sub trabe celsa luteum sngit opus, omninoque Vesfngere nidos apud Cic. de Or. 2 6 dicuntur. V Ern. Fingunt ita vett. et recentiores Edd. : ipsis, Munt. At melius ligunt domos enim seu tuguria luto sinuebant. Sic apud lin. II, 22 bombyces in Assyria nidos luto sngunt.
Brotier. Pingunt, Edd. et t. omnes revocavit Eria. Figunt, errorem typographicum ipsi anae primae, per multa exemplaria propagavit negligentia editorum. V usso . et
Mulier is no quite correct when e dentes that frigere cau
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Apium eaeamina non ingendorum avorum causa congregan-Lwr: ed quum congregabilia natura int, frigunt favos. Chr. Aug. eum anti in ille Poecile sive Epistolo Miaeeia lanem ad iteratissimos vi nostri Viros T. 3, L. 2. P. 248. alae 729. Spealis, in Warm ternas, of a ranslationos actius, Rhicli a publis hed a Beri in in 724. aridadds, Si me a Uito Agricolo Interpretatio Germanica non plus habuerit vitiorum, mihi gaudebo et gratulabor. M. C. Taciti Germaniam recensuit, et ad Studiosae juventutis intelligentiam olis perpetuis atque necessariis Indicibus illustravit Io Chr. et ter Erlangae 171 4. 12. Memorabile est, quod reserunt Auctores Actorum Erudit. . 7l6.
p. 238. ab ingenio Philippi V Regis Hispanorum, prosectam
esse Versionem vernaculam Germanice a citi, non ita pridemtγpis excusam, quae ab utriusque linguae gnaris praestantissima cen Setur. Prinlectiones aganani Gaudenti in Taciti Vitam Agricolin Rudol studii A. 1713. in lucem emisit Rector Scholae ibidem Io Henr Acherus. Fertur et Leonti ardus Chr. illi novam Taciti de Moribus Germanorum Editionem in procinctu habere. V Chr. Fal steri Cogitati. uriae philol. 17l9 P. 34. In a Leiter, riiten by Hieronymus rostolius istaeus, ad dresset to Iacobus Lectius, and insertet in the Philologi- carrum Epistolarum Centuria Una diversorum a renatis Lit
teris D D. V V ex Bibliotheea Melchioris Naim ins eldii
Goldasti, re-publis hed by Hermannus Conringius ut Leipsicin 1674. in p. 351 occurs ille solio in passage:- Quod superest, ago tibi immortales gratias de Variis illis Lectionibus ad Corn. Taeiti Librum de Germanorum Moribus, in
quos tamen quoedam reperi, quin item in vulgatis ς et, puto, ii Codex, unde excerpsisti eas, erat recentioris Otin. VTh. Reinesius in a Leiter o Jo Andr Bosius in h. Reinesii et o Andr Bosi Epistoloe mutum varia Philologica et Historica complexne, quas e Soriniis B. C. Sagittarii, una cum Excerptis Episti. CL V. ad ditionem Iosephi facientibus, publico luci dat o Anse Schmidius, en a17 OO. saysQ-Proemetia Guil. Daretali in Agricolam laudat alicubi Gerartius Virdungi Pros Norici Notas alii.