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Germany.

Charlemagne.

When led thither by Alexander the Great.

Striking.

Application of the “aries,” or battering-ram.

APPENDIX TO ESSAYS.

Tac. Hist. ii. 80.

Cæs. de Bell. Civ. i. 6.

Tac. Ann. i. 5.

Vide Herod. viii. 108, 109.

THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS.

Varro distributes the ages of the world into three periods; viz: the unknown, the fabulous, and the historical. Of the former, we have no

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