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2995	Yet I would not venture to aver that in Germany no vein of gold or silver is produced; for who has ever searched?
7524	Can you imagine that the Romans are as brave in war as they are licentious in peace? 7524 How often on a march, when embarrassed with mountains, bogs and rivers, have I heard the bravest among you exclaim,''When shall we descry the enemy? 7524 Might they not have been lost by some of these people in one of their landings? 7524 Tacitus answered,You know me from your reading,"to which the knight quickly replied,"Are you then Tacitus or Pliny?"
7524	What has the East, which has itself lost Pacorus, and suffered an overthrow from Ventidius,[ 196] to boast against us, but the slaughter of Crassus?
7524	[ 35] Not that I would assert that no veins of these metals are generated in Germany; for who has made the search?
7524	when shall we be led to the field of battle?''
14809	And then he said to him"Are you willing to wrestle now after your running, my little Thracian?"
14809	And what 90 more?
14809	And what more?
14809	And who would hesitate to choose one of the Amali, if there were an empty throne?
14809	And why say more?
14809	And why?
14809	But to what will not the"cursed lust for gold"compel men to assent?
14809	But why need we speak of what the subject does not require?
14809	For what is war but your usual custom?
14809	Or what is sweeter for a brave man than to seek revenge with his own hand?
14809	To say nothing about ourselves, can you suffer such insolence to go unpunished?
14809	What just cause can 193 be found for the encounter of so many nations, or what hatred inspired them all to take arms against each other?
14809	Who can rate this as death, when none believes it calls for vengeance?"
14809	Who was it revealed to our sires the path through the Maeotian swamp, for so many ages closed secret?
14809	Who, moreover, made armed men yield to you, when you were as yet unarmed?
14809	Why say more?
14809	[ Sidenote: Consulship of Theodosius 439][ Sidenote: FIRST BREACH BETWEEN THEODORID I AND THE ROMANS][ Sidenote: The Truce 439] XXXIV And what more?
14809	[ Sidenote: KING VALAMIR 445?]
9090	''Aye,''said the man,''is it then Tacitus or Pliny I am talking with?''
9090	13, 164:_ Caerula_ quis stupuit_ Germani lumina?
9090	4, 17: Quis est, qui non beneficus_ videri_ velit?
9090	An eandem Romanis in bello virtutem, quam in pace lasciviam adesse creditis?"
9090	And why is the purpose so scrupulously concealed, that confessedly it can be gathered only from obscure intimations, and those of ambiguous import?
9090	But then what is_ retro_ sequuntur?
9090	Equidem saepe in agmine, cum vos paludes montesve et flumina fatigarent, fortissimi cujusque voces audiebam, Quando dabitur hostis, quando acies?
9090	Greek authors make early mention of Albion( plural of Alp?)
9090	Moreover, how could T. properly use the word_ hostium_ of his own countrymen?
9090	Nec tamen affirmaverim, nullam Germaniae venam argentum aurumve gignere: quis enim scrutatus est?
9090	Peucini, Venedi, Fenni, Germani, an Sarmatae?
9090	Quid enim aliud nobis, quam caedem Crassi, amisso et ipse Pacoro, infra Ventidium dejectus Oriens objecerit?
9090	Quid, si per quindecim annos, grande mortalis aevi spatium, multi fortuitis casibus, promptissimus quisque saevitia principis interciderunt?
9090	Quis?
9090	This year doubtless marks the time when this treatise was written, else why selected?
9090	Ubi?
9090	Why not refer it to the_ construction_ or_ improvement_ of harbors?
9090	flavam Caesariem_, et madido torquentem cornua cirro?
9090	qui non inter scelera et injurias opinionem bonitatis affectet?
9090	velit quoque_ iis videri beneficium dedisse, quos laesit?
7959	Do you indeed believe the Romans to be equally brave and vigorous in war, as during peace they are vicious and dissolute? 7959 How long,"said they,"shall we hold the son of our Emperor thus besieged?
7959	What poetry the Sirens chaunted?
7959	What was Achilles''name, when he lay hid among the women?
7959	And did not Anthony at last pay with his life the penalty of that subdolous alliance?
7959	And if they meant to petition, why meditate violence?
7959	And were the magistrates themselves free from these excesses?
7959	Are Cassius and Brutus now in arms?
7959	As he had been likewise dignified with the Consular and triumphal honours, what more could fortune add to his lustre and renown?
7959	But suppose any of them escaped so many dangers, and survived so many calamities, where was their reward at last?
7959	But what is it, that I am first to prohibit, what excess retrench to the ancient standard?
7959	Can I call you_ soldiers_?
7959	Did Augustus, even under the pressure of old age and infirmities, take so many journeys into Germany?
7959	Did he not next ensnare Marc Anthony, first by treaties, those of Tarentum and Brundusium; then by a marriage, that of his sister Octavia?
7959	For, during these days of frenzy what has been too horrid for you to commit?
7959	Gallio had forsooth discovered a recompense which had escaped the sagacity of the deified Augustus?
7959	He might, in truth, outlive and avoid the few and last days of Tiberius: but how escape the youth of his heir?
7959	Hence Cneius Piso asked him,"In what place, Caesar, will you choose to give your opinion?
7959	Here Asinius Gallus interposed:"I beg to know, Caesar,"says he,"what part of the government you desire for your share?"
7959	How therefore did parsimony prevail of old?
7959	In short, shall two common men dispossess the Neros and the Drusi, and to themselves assume the Empire of the Roman People?
7959	In truth, what a small force would all the soldiers arrived in the island appear; would the Britons but compute their own numbers?
7959	It was added, that the husbands were corrupted by their corrupt wives: and were therefore all single men uncorrupt?
7959	Messalinus was asked by Lucius Asprenas, in the presence of the Senate,"Whether by design he had omitted him?"
7959	Now to which should he repair first?
7959	Quando annona moderatior?
7959	Quando pax laetior?
7959	Shall we swear allegiance to Percennius and Vibulenus?
7959	The brother having informed him where, and in what fight, was next asked,"what reward he had received?"
7959	They asked,"did he mean to surrender Julius Sacrovir to the Senate, to try him for treason?"
7959	Tiberius too afterwards, when Pompeius Macer, the Praetor, consulted him"whether process should be granted upon this law?"
7959	To this audience what name shall I give?
7959	To war indeed we must go equipped and unencumbered; but after the fatigues of war, what was more allowable than the consolations of a wife?
7959	Upon him Tiberius fell with violent wrath, and, as if present, demanded, what business had he with the soldiers?
7959	What so sacred that you have not violated?
7959	What would be the consequence, if, by such a marriage, the strife were inflamed?
7959	When they were withdrawn,"How came you,"says he to his brother,"by that deformity in your face?"
7959	Where at least were the ceremonies and even outside of sorrow?"
7959	Where will our broils and wild contentions end?
7959	Where, oh where, Blesus, hast thou thrown his unoffending and mangled corpse?
7959	Why not inquired into the author of the poison?
7959	Why would he not rather have tortured the minister of the poison?
7959	Will Vibulenus and Percennius support us with pay during our service, and reward us with lands when dismissed?
7959	Yet I would not venture to aver that in Germany no vein of gold or silver is produced; for who has ever searched?
7959	_ Quid studiosa Cohors operum struit?
7959	_ Quis Parthum paveat?
7959	_ Roman citizens_ can I call you?
7959	and whither did they drag her?
7959	and would not the last visited be inflamed by being postponed?
7959	did we therefore send none into the provinces?
7959	do they at present fill with armed troops the fields of Philippi?
7959	how little to be weighed in the balance with others?
7959	or do I fire the Roman People, by inflammatory harangues, with the spirit of civil rage?
7959	or with the gorgeous vestments, promiscuously worn by men and women?
7959	or with the pictures, and works, and statues of brass, the wonders of art?
7959	or with the quantity of plate, silver, and gold?
7959	or, were their recompenses to be adjudged by many masters, but their punishments to remain without any restraint or moderator whatsoever?"
7959	there also to exercise his enmity to the legions, and oppose their interest?"
7959	to the Emperor or Senate?
7959	unless the same were his native country?
7959	were not most of them governed by many exorbitant appetites?
7959	what Senators were to be chosen?
7959	where the glory of ancient discipline?
7959	whether always the same, or a continued succession?
7959	whether those who were Magistrates, or those exercising no magistracy?
7959	whether young Senators, or such as had borne dignities?
7959	whither had they chased their Tribunes, whither their Centurions?"
7959	who to be omitted?
7959	why did you leave me at their mercy by snatching from me my sword, when with it I would have put myself out of their power?
7959	you who have beset with arms the son of your Emperor, confined him in your trenches, and held him in a siege?
7959	you who have trampled upon the supreme authority of the Roman Senate?
3821	''Dog,''cries Totila''s page,''wilt thou strike thy lord?''
3821	''Perjured boy, madman, betrayer of your race-- do you not see that the Roman plan is as always to destroy Goths by Goths?
3821	''What then will you leave us?''
3821	''Why are you killing your kinsmen?
3821	''Why do you tell us,''is said,''of nothing but the marriages, successions, wars, characters, of a few Royal Races?
3821	( 1) Did they all go?
3821	( 3) But were there not more causes than mere want, which sent them south?
3821	( 4) But more, had they never heard of Rome?
3821	--the more inclined to ask,''Could it have been done better?''
3821	1688 after Christ?
3821	Am I not wiser, stronger, more virtuous, more beautiful than you?
3821	And all the fairy treasure-- what has become of it?
3821	And are we to suppose that the dialects did not alter during the long journeyings through many nations?
3821	And do we wonder if we are surpassed in power, by an enemy who surpasses us in decency?
3821	And how, pray, can we talk of the inevitable, in the face of that one miserable fact of human folly, whether of ignorance or of passion, folly still?
3821	And if such be the history of not one nation only, but of the average, how, I ask, are we to make calculations about such a species as man?
3821	And now, gentlemen, was this vast campaign fought without a general?
3821	And on the third day they came to the place which is called Hersfelt( the hart''s down?
3821	And that that was their answer to his three and thirty years of unexampled religious liberty?
3821	And what became of the masses all the while?
3821	And what had they gained by changing Dietrich for Justinian?
3821	And what was his end?
3821	And what was left?
3821	And what was the original sin of them?
3821	And who could that be, if not the Pope of Rome?
3821	And who was St. Boniface?
3821	And who were these Franks, the ancestors of that magnificent, but profligate aristocracy whose destruction our grandfathers beheld in 1793?
3821	And why did he enter into secret negotiations with the Franks to come and invade Italy?
3821	And why did not Hadrian''s wall keep them back?
3821	And why did the Teutons_ not_ do it?
3821	And why did these Goths perish, in spite of all their valour and patriotism, at the hands of mercenaries?
3821	And why should he not undertake this great task?
3821	And why when he died, did the Goths lose all plan, and wander wildly up Italy, and out into Spain?
3821	And why?
3821	And why?
3821	And why?
3821	Are they powerless?
3821	Are you aware that those who carelessly do so, blink the whole of the world- old arguments between necessity and free- will?
3821	As to Theodoric himself, Kingsley surely knew his real status, for he says:''Why did he not set himself up as Caesar of Rome?
3821	Be it so: but in what sense are the laws of matter inevitable?
3821	But has he not overstated his case on some points?
3821	But if they had not done what they did, where would have been now our gospel, and our Bible?
3821	But is the Frank''s perfidy as blameable as ours?
3821	But one would hardly blame them for that, surely?
3821	But were not these poor monks heroes?
3821	But what has this to do with what I said at first, as to the masses having no history?
3821	But what of the Christian who does the same?
3821	Can we devise any better method of doing it?
3821	Christ was coming to put an end to all these horrors: but why did he delay his coming?
3821	Could they see the saint, and make it up with him somewhat?
3821	Did he felicitate himself like a simple Teuton, on the wonderful learning and eloquence of his Greek- Roman secretary?
3821	Did no one marshal them in that impregnable convex front, from the Euxine to the North Sea?
3821	Do you not see it?
3821	Do you not see the effect of that new thought?
3821	Does not Dr. Latham''s theory proceed too much on an assumption that the Sclavonians dispossest the Teutons by force?
3821	Each envies the youth before him, each cries-- Why had I not the luck to enter first?
3821	Else why did he not set himself up as Caesar of Rome?
3821	Even in the seemingly most uniform and universal law, where do we find the inevitable or the irresistible?
3821	For no dates are given, and how can they be?
3821	For out of those monasteries sprang-- what did not spring?
3821	For what is all human invention, but the transcending and conquering one natural law by another?
3821	Had the peculiar restlessness of the race nothing to do with it?
3821	Had they destroyed Rome sooner, what would not they have lost?
3821	Has not Italy proved it likewise, for centuries past?
3821	Have they even been always a minority, and not at times a terrible majority, doing each that which was right in the sight of his own eyes?
3821	Have they had no influence on History?
3821	Have they spoilt it themselves?
3821	Have they thrown it away in their quarrel?
3821	He says that the letters in which he hoped for the liberty of Rome were forged; how could he hope for the impossible?
3821	Hold what natural science teaches?
3821	How can a man draw a picture of that which has no shape; or tell the order of absolute disorder?
3821	How had these things escaped the Goths forty years before?
3821	How is it that these liberties have been lost throughout almost all Europe?
3821	If a Hun or a Gepid deceives you, what wonder?
3821	If it was, why should not wisdom be justified of all her children?
3821	If so, may they not have commenced before the different Teutonic dialects were as distinct as they were in the historic period?
3821	If such were the morals of the Empire, what was its political state?
3821	If the Church derived her rights from the extinct Roman Caesars, how could the Teuton conquerors interfere with those rights?
3821	If the once populous Campagna of Rome be now uninhabitable from malaria, what must it have been in Paul Warnefrid''s time?
3821	If there was, as M. Thierry truly says, another nature struggling within him-- is there not such in every man?
3821	If these were the old Teutonic laws, this the old Teutonic liberty, the respect for man as man, for woman as woman, whence came the opposite element?
3821	In return, Agilwulf had restored the church- property which he had plundered, had reinstated the bishops; and why did not all go well?
3821	Is it a myth, a falsehood?
3821	Is it not a strange story?
3821	Is it not true?
3821	Is it possible that the Thervings and Grutungs could have retained the same tongue on the Danube, as their forefathers spoke in their native land?
3821	Is it the language of prophecy as well as of personal experience?''
3821	Is the Alman''s drunkenness, or the Alan''s rapacity, as damnable as a Christian''s?
3821	Is there not in nature a perpetual competition of law against law, force against force, producing the most endless and unexpected variety of results?
3821	It is childish to repeat that, when the question is, was it right then-- or, at least, as right as was possible then?
3821	Justified of her children she may be, after we have settled which are to be her children and which not: but of all her children?
3821	King over them there in Italy?
3821	Many a gem which hangs now on an English lady''s wrist saw Alaric sack Rome-- and saw before and since-- What not?
3821	May I be permitted to enlarge somewhat on this topic?
3821	Must not that wild fighting Bertrand have gone away from that place a wiser and a better man?
3821	Native courage and strength?
3821	Need the migrations necessary for this theory have been of''unparalleled magnitude and rapidity''?
3821	No one guide them to the two great strategic centres, of the Black Forest and Trieste?
3821	One would not blame them as selfish and sordid if they had gone out on a commercial speculation?
3821	People began to question the virtues of the bones, and to ask, We can believe that the bones may have worked miracles for good men, but for bad men?
3821	Potentially, or actually?
3821	Rome taken?
3821	Should I have altered this?
3821	So it should be( or why was man created a rational being?)
3821	Taking one''s stand at Rome, and looking toward the north, what does one see for nearly one hundred years?
3821	The Bible was not forbidden to the laity till centuries afterwards-- and forbidden then, why?
3821	The Goths inside, tired of the slow Vitigis, send out to the great Belisarius, Will he be their king?
3821	The Ostrogoths( East- goths) lay from the Volga to the Borysthenes, the Visigoths( West- goths?)
3821	The crown of philosophy?
3821	The law of gravity is immutable enough: but do all stones inevitably fall to the ground?
3821	The more one studies the facts, the less one is inclined to ask,''Why was it not done better?''
3821	Then, why should he have adopted this High- German name for the great Theodoric, and why should he speak of Attila too as Etzel?
3821	They can face flesh and blood: but who can face the quite infinite terrors of an unseen world?
3821	Unanimity?
3821	Was it needed then-- or, at least, the nearest thing to that which was needed?
3821	Was it not true?
3821	Was it that the awe of the place, the prestige of the Roman name, cowed him?
3821	Was not that wise?
3821	Was not the surplus population driven off by famine toward warmer and more hopeful climes?
3821	Was that not wise?
3821	Was that not wise?
3821	Was there a stain on Odoacer from his early connexion with Attila?
3821	Were there no causes sufficient to excite so desperate a resolve?
3821	Were they not doing the same in pre- historic times, by fits and starts, no doubt with periods of excitement, periods of collapse and rest?
3821	What better for them than to seek in convents that peace which this world could not give?
3821	What could a man do more meritorious in the eyes of the Pope?
3821	What did it all mean?
3821	What did they do but hand her over to Frankish tyrants instead?
3821	What had become of all the wealth of Rome?
3821	What is become, gentlemen, of the treasures of Rome?
3821	What matter to Burgunds and Herules who was who, provided they had any thing to be plundered of?
3821	What of all the pomp and glory, the spoils of the world, the millions of inhabitants?
3821	What put these Germanic peoples on going South?
3821	What terms would he take?
3821	What then were the causes of the Papal hatred of a race who were good and devout Catholics for the last 200 years of their rule?
3821	What then were the causes of the success of the Teutons?
3821	What was the essential fault of these Lombard laws-- indeed of all the Teutonic codes?
3821	What was there left for him now that he could not do?
3821	What will become of the forest children, unless some kind saint or hermit comes among them, to bind them in the holy bonds of brotherhood and law?
3821	What woke him from his dream?
3821	What would have been the fate of a force landed at the mouth of the Weser on the north, or at the mouth of the Dnieper at the west?
3821	What would not the world have lost?
3821	What, indeed, was not left to slaves?
3821	What, then, was the cause of their success?
3821	Where are they all now?
3821	Where could they find it, save at Rome?
3821	Where is all their wealth gone, they who set out to fight for you?
3821	Which was the child of wisdom, I ask again?
3821	Who can forget that funeral on the 28th Jan., 1875, and the large sad throng that gathered round his grave?
3821	Who can tell?
3821	Who can tell?
3821	Who could stand against them?
3821	Who will tell us why they have arisen when they did, and why they did what they did, and nothing else?
3821	Who would deny that man the name of saint?
3821	Why are these Lombards still the most wicked of men?
3821	Why did he always consider himself as son- in- arms, and quasi- vassal of the Caesar of Constantinople?''
3821	Why did he always consider himself as son- in- arms, and quasi- vassal, of the Caesar of Constantinople?
3821	Why did he not set up as king of Italy?
3821	Why have you made so many widows?
3821	Why not?
3821	Why not?
3821	Why was Alaric more fortunate?
3821	Why, then, if on a religious one?
3821	Would not the Moeso- Gothic of Ulfilas have been all but unintelligible to the Goth who, upon the old theory, remained in Gothland of Sweden?
3821	Would not the end justify the means?
3821	Would not this theory agree at once tolerably with the old traditions and with Dr. Latham''s new facts?
3821	Would not those two facts( even the belief that they were facts) have been enough to drive many a wise man mad?
3821	You know the Nibelungen Lied?
3821	You know what an echellon means?
3821	You may ask, however, how these monasteries became so powerful, if they were merely refuges for the weak?
3821	You recollect Rosamund his Gepid bride?
3821	and that in spite of all their sins, the hosts of our forefathers were the hosts of God?
3821	contemporaneous), really''unrepresented in any tradition''?
3821	have the Trolls flown away with it, to the fairy land beyond the Eastern mountains?
3821	have the cunningest hidden it?
3821	of the men, slaves the greater part of them, if not all, who tilled the soil, and ground the corn-- for man must have eaten, then as now?
3821	or have the Trolls bewitched it?
3821	so utterly unlike anything which we see now;--so utterly unlike anything which we ought to see now?
3821	who can tell?
3821	{ 109} Had he actually taken the name of Theodoric, Theuderic, Dietrich, which signifies much the same thing as''King of nations''?