 Here, perhaps, is the key to Germanic success and the secret of Germanic supremacy. In war, indeed, of whatever kind the Germanic virtue of courage came to the front ; but in the comitatus courage was no more prominent than fidelity, loyalty, and truth....  The Buried Ideal - Side 30af Charles Lawson - 1914 - 183 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Francis Barton Gummere - 1892 - 516 sider
...to the front ; but in the comitatus courage was no more prominent than fidelity, loyalty, and truth. The sense of duty, the sense of standing and enduring for a principle, has 1 Who was this prince? Waitz, I. 246 f., says it was not any given noble, but one of the principes... | |
 | Andrew Peter Fors - 1904 - 72 sider
...front; but in the comitatus (retinue) courage was no more prominent than fidelity, loyalty, and truth. The sense of duty, the sense of standing and enduring...principle, has always been the mainspring of Germanic success."1 So courage must be coupled with sense, as we read in Guth., vs. 28: Courage hast thou, Hamdir!... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1916 - 314 sider
...to the front ; but in the comitatus courage was no more prominent than fidelity, loyalty, and truth. The sense of duty, the sense of standing and enduring...principle, has always been the mainspring of Germanic success."1 It is the dithyramb of Lamprecht, in advance. Again, what are the historic facts ? Among... | |
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