text:  In this short enumeration we have considered each country not according to the number of its very eminent men; for though far from denying the right which each undoubtedly possesses to shine by the reflected lustre of her stars yet in looking as it were from an external point it is more just to regard the general character of each people than to classify them according as they may happen to be the birthplace of those "To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe