. St. Nicholas [serial]. ng arousedto the question, I decided to look it turned to the dictionary, and found manythings pertaining to this much-used word. I learned that the Franks were a power-ful German tribe which, at the breaking upof the Roman Empire, overthrew the Romanpower in Gaul and took possession, found-ing the Frankish monarchy, and gave originto the name France. The Franks were thenthe ruling people, and were honorably dis-tinguished from the Gauls and degenerateRomans, among whom they establishedthemselves, by their independence, their love sunshi of freedom, and their scor
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ng arousedto the question, I decided to look it turned to the dictionary, and found manythings pertaining to this much-used word. I learned that the Franks were a power-ful German tribe which, at the breaking upof the Roman Empire, overthrew the Romanpower in Gaul and took possession, found-ing the Frankish monarchy, and gave originto the name France. The Franks were thenthe ruling people, and were honorably dis-tinguished from the Gauls and degenerateRomans, among whom they establishedthemselves, by their independence, their love sunshi of freedom, and their scorn of lies. They had, in short, the virtues which belong to aconquering and dominant race in the midst of an inferiorone. And thus it came to pass that by degrees thename Frank, which may have originally indicatedmerely a national, came to involve a moral distinction aswell; and the word frank was synonymous not merelywith a man of the conquering German race, but was anepithet applied to a person possessed of certain high.
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