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The Latin, Gallic, has the French, Italian and Spanish nations; and the Slavonic comprises the Slavs and Romanic races with their innumerable subdivisions such as Moscovite, Chech, Pole, Croat, Serb, Bulgar, Bojar, etc. These three groups are distinctly different in habits, thoughts, manners and ambitions.
His works on 'The Astronomy of the Ancients, and 'Essays on the Formation of the Romanic Languages, might have been written by the profoundest of German SAVANS. He took especial delight in pursuing the abstruser branches of learning, and found in them his chief pleasure and recreation.
We had always thought a high sense of personal honor an essential element of chivalry; but among the Romanic races, by which, as the wonderful ethnologist of "De Bow's Review" tells us, the Southern States were settled, and from which they derive a close entail of chivalric characteristics, to the exclusion of the vulgar Saxons of the North, such is by no means the case.
The glossary to Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar explains words of Teutonic and Romanic root in about equal proportions. The parallel but independent development of Scotch is not to be forgotten. I believe that for the last two centuries the Latin radicals of English have been more familiar and homelike to those who use them than the Teutonic.
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