Excerpt from Travels Through Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Sicily, Vol. 1 of 2 Of the propenfities of which the heart of the Tranflator could not forbear to accufe his Author, national prejudices, in favour of Germany and in hofiility to France, evidently {trengthened' by the war that while he wrote was raging between' thore countries, were the molt frequent. The ambition and tur bulence of individuals, the crimes they have been induced to commit, and the maffacres of which' they have been the authors, deferve every cenfure that a' jufi and a feeling yet a difpafiionate morality can bellow. But it is a well known maxim, of which the Count has frequently reminded us, that individuals are not a nation. In efiimating the worth of nations, j ufiice requires that, while their vices are put into one fcale, their virtues lhould as confcientioufly be poifed in the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.