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nation is the admiration and the legacy of all nations, and, 

 though dead, she yet speaks in all the sons of taste and 

 refinement, since, by printing, her works have been 

 familiarized to posterity. 



We next come to Europe generally, the true political 

 focus of which has stranded to the north-west from Acre, 

 including Italy, Germany, France, and England, Denmark 

 and South Sweden with Norway, Prussia, Poland; whilst 

 Russia, to the north of Moscow, has taken no important 

 part in the history of the world till the Turkish supremacy, 

 after 1453 and later. 



But who is going into the subject of the Visi-Goths of 

 Spain, the Ostro-Goths of Italy, the Alemanni, the Saxons, 

 Suevi, Burgundians, Belgians, Gepidae, Scandinavians, the 

 Norsemen, Gauls, Franks (Eastern and Western), the 

 Vandals, Huns, Sarmatians, Finns, and Magyars ? Suffice 

 it to say such people lived, and though they are all dead 

 now, under one name or another, in their successors, they 

 have gone back to where they came from, as the Huns ; or, 

 through cross with other and neighbouring tribes and 

 kindred, their names are lost but not their blood, as the 

 ancient Iberians with the Visi-Goths and Moors ; the Gauls 

 with the Franks ; the Aborigines of Central Germany call 

 them Kitcheners, or Earth-diggers, or by any other name 

 with the Alemanni and their confederates. These people, 

 having given national customs and warlike habits, are 

 admitted as inhabiting Central and Western Europe. They 

 lived, and acted, and fought, and hated, and despised one 

 another as nationalities, and as countrymen they oppressed 

 one another in their domestic and social relations, and 

 helped one another in their national existence. 



Making one or two splendid exceptions, especially in 

 Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, Otho the Great, and, if it- 

 is permissible, Canute the Great, and a host of smaller fry, it 



