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After a noble but useless resistance, and a terrific bombardment, Copenhagen surrendered, and the Danish fleet was destroyed. It would be difficult to find in history a more infamous and revolting instance of the abuse of power against weakness. Sometime after this event a pamphlet entitled "Germania" appeared, which I translated and sent to the Emperor.
Orders had been given, long before this movement began, to cut down the baggage of officers and men to the lowest point possible. Notwithstanding this I saw scattered along the road from Culpeper to Germania Ford wagon-loads of new blankets and overcoats, thrown away by the troops to lighten their knapsacks; an improvidence I had never witnessed before.
And to make matters still worse, Italian navigation companies are bound with those of Germany by special secret conventions, which oblige them to abandon to their rivals certain kinds of merchandise of the Near and the Far East." Cf. Preziosi, La Germania a la Conquista dell' Italia, p. 57 fol.
I doubt if Berlioz would have obtained any consideration at all from lovers of classical music in France if he had not found allies in that country of classical music, Germany "the oracle of Delphi," "Germania alma parens," as he called her. Some of the young German school found inspiration in Berlioz.
In his "Reisebilder," he describes the scene café basin, swans, and townsfolk upon the quays Heaven knows what portraits he makes of them! He returns to it again in his poem, "Germania," and there is so much life to the picture, such distinctness, such relief, that sight itself teaches you nothing more.
There are also roads from east of the battle-field running to Spottsylvania Court House, one from Chancellorsville, branching at Aldrich's; the western branch going by Piney Branch Church, Alsop's, thence by the Brock Road to Spottsylvania; the east branch goes by Gates's, thence to Spottsylvania. The Brock Road runs from Germania Ford through the battle-field and on to the Court House.
"Why, it can't be that late!" for the dock on the mantel called out five times and she looked at it in wide-eyed amazement. Never had an afternoon run away any faster. "I must go. I've had a perfectly wonderful time, Mrs. Schuneman, and I hope that Germania will be happy with you in her new home." There was a wistful note in her voice that reminded Mrs.
He must have acquired by painful labour that wonderful suggestive brevity which in the Annals reaches its culmination, and is of all styles the world of letters has ever seen, the most compressed and full of meaning. The Germania, however, in certain portions approximates to it, and in other ways shows a slight increase of maturity over the biography of Agricola.
Latham's Germania sub voc. Sarmatis Dacisque. The Slavonic Tribes were called Sarmatians by the ancients.
CHAP. I. Germania stands first as the emphatic word, and is followed by omnis for explanation. It denotes Germany proper, as a whole, in distinction from the provinces just mentioned and from the several tribes, of which Tacitus treats in the latter part of the work. Gallis Pannoniis. People used for the countries. Cf. His. 5,6: Phoenices.
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