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(generally considered) of success; our superadded 
vigour of mind and enterprise have hitherto 
crowned our efforts in the same manner, but to 
an extent unknown to them or to the most re- 
nowned nations of antiquity, equally in arts as 
in arms, making our power and our skill to be 
felt and acknowledged over the wide world—so 
that to ‘fare well” and to have “ well fared” ex- 
press for us, our most ardent wishes—respect- 
ing all our numberless outgoings and incomings, 
to and from every region on the face of the earth, 
and for almost every possible purpose. And to 
make this history of these terms both more appa- 
rent and real, we have but just to compare it 
with similar modes of expression used on similar 
occasions, by nations sprung from the same stock 
as the Saxons, and either agreeing or disagreeing 
with them in their habits of life. Norse and 
Dane, like themselves, were adventurers on the 
ocean. ‘Their kings reigned in ships more than 
on land; we therefore, find them using the same 
terms on similar occasions, both tongues have their 
‘“‘farvel’ and ‘far vel,” and their “‘vel ferd.”’ 
But the Germans, a fixed and inland people, 
not given to such habits, use not generally such 
words on such occasions, but those which better 
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