Excerpt from A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar, Vol. 2: And Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the WorldHistory.] The manners of the ancient germans'are defcribed by the elegant and manly pencil of Tacitus, the R0 man hil'corian. They were a brave and independant race of men, and peculiarly dif'cinguiihed by their love of liberty and arms They Oppofed the force of the Roman empire, not in its orig n or in its decline, but after it had arrived at matu rity, and {till continued 1n its full vigour. The country was divided into a number. Of principalities, independant of each other, though occafionally connected by a military union for defending themfelves again ft fuch enemies as threatened the liberty of them/ Tn this lituation Germany remained.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.