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Dasent, Burnt Njal; or Life in Iceland at the end of the tenth century. Mallet's Northern Antiquities. Thorpe, Northern Mythology. De la Saussaye, The Religion of the Teutons, 1902, the most comprehensive statement of the whole subject. Ralston, Songs of Russian People, and Russian Folk Tales. Simrock, Handb. der deutschen Mythologie. R. M. Meyer, Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte, 1910.
Culture taken by itself is livery business, and when combined with much beer and wine drinking, irregular eating and a disinclination for regular exercise, culture becomes a positive menace to health. Of this danger to the German, their own great man Bismarck spoke in the Abgeordnetenhaus in 1881: "Bei uns Deutschen wird mit wenigem so viel Zeit totgeschlagen wie mit Biertrinken.
One of the main charges constantly made was that in America there was a "Deutschen Hetze." Very many German papers had really persuaded themselves, and apparently had convinced a large part of the German people, that throughout our country there existed a hate, deep and acrid, of everything German and especially of German-Americans.
"You shall see her, Yevgeny; but first we must have a little talk with the doctor. Bazarov glanced at the German. "Well, talk away quickly, only not in Latin: you see, I know the meaning of jam moritur." "Der Herr scheint des Deutschen mächtig zu sein," began the new follower of Æsculapius, turning to Vassily Ivanovitch. "Ich habe We had better speak Russian," said the old man.
Again the evidence proves rectangular town-planning in broad outline; excavation alone can tell the rest. Zeitschrift des deutschen Palãstina-Vereins, xxv , plate 6; Bãdeker, Palestine and Syria , p. 140. For the neighbouring Bostra, see p. 136. In the towns just described a distinctive feature is the 'chess-board' pattern of streets and rectangular house-blocks.
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