Note 19 — Section 158. THE WARLIKE CHARACTER OF THE GERMANS.
Reading edition
[1] supply the verb ‘be’.
[2] = station, Stand, m.
[3] = practised.
[4] Say ‘Hence they can be moved (erregen) only at (durch) the bidding (Gebot, n.)’.
[5] Erweckung, f.
[6] die Seele ergreifend.
[7] ‘to be sensible’, here sich bewußt sein.
[8] here die Annehmlichkeiten des Lebens.
[9] Say ‘in short give up everything’, for the verb ‘abandon’ must be placed at the end of this clause.
[10] Say ‘in order to prove the identity of the nation and the army’.
[11] halten (für).
[12] here gestählt.
[13] Say ‘and feel that it is better and nobler to die’, etc.
[14] vermodern; to crumble away, verfallen; ‘ease’, here Gemächlichkeit.
[15] Auch halten sie dafür.
[16] Construe thus: ‘that God will bless the cause (Sache, f.) of liberty’, and use the attributive constr. for the transl. of ‘and the — nationality’. Any other constr. would be much too clumsy.
[17] = deeds.
[18] to give victory, den Sieg verleihen; to go forth to battle, in die Schlacht ziehen.
[19] auf.
[20] Supply ‘then, that’.
[21] = conquer.