Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-09-22

beautiful Eatrnet.-lt cannot be that earth
Is mans only abiding place. II cannot he
that our life is bubble, cast up by the ocean
oC eternity. TO float moment upon IT'S waves,
and sink into nothingness. Else why IS u,
that The high ard glorious aspirations, which
lean like angels from the temple OF our hearts,
are forever wandering about ansatslied'
sVhy is II that the rainbow and the cloud
come over us with a beauty that Is not oil
eatth. and then pass off and leave us to muse
spou their faded loveliness' Why Is 1t thht
the stars, which hold their festival around
.he midnight throne are set above the grasp
OF our limited faculties; forever hooking us
with their unapproachable glory? And final
IL, why is il that brishtforms OF human beau
Nv are presented to our view and then taken
from MS: leaving the thousand streams OF our
affections TO flow back in an Alpine torrent
ppon our heatP We are born for higher
destiny than that Of earth, Tbereis realm
where the rainbow never tades--~here the
stars will be spread out before US Ike the is
lands that siumber on the ocean, and where
the beautiful beings which here pass before US
as shadows, viii stay in our presence forever.
The end of s'great men "--Happening TO
east NV ewes upon printed page Of NINA
ture portraits, perceived that the four per
-sonages who occupied the four most conspi-
cuous places. were .4leTnnder, Hnnibol, CCe
sar. and Bonapate had seen the same
unpumbered times before, but never did the
same sensations arise In my bosom, as my
mind hastily glanced over their several hlsto
rIes.
.9iaraader. after having climbed the dizzy
heights of his ambition. and with his temples
bound with chaplets dipped in the mood Of
countless nations. looked down upon a con-
onered world. and wept that there was not
another world for him to conquer, set city
on fire, and died in scene OF aebauch
Hannibal, after having, to the astonish-
yoent and Consideration of Rome, passed the
Alps-aiter having put to flight the armies OF
This mistress OF the world and stripped
sthree bushels o: golden rings from the fin
gers OF her slaughtered knights, and made
her very foundation quake--hed from his
country, being hated by those who once ex-
-4ltingly united his name to that Of their god
and called him Hanni Beal--cnd died at
last. by poison administered by his own hands,
unlamented and unweptin foreign land
Caascr. after having conquered eight hun
bred cities, and dyed his garments in the
blood Of one million of his foes; after having
pursued TO death the only rival he had on
earth, was miserably assassinated by those he
considered as his nearest friends, and in that
very place. tho attainment Of which had been
his greatest ambition.
BonapGrtc, whose mandate kings antp opes
sbeycd, after having allied the earth with ter
ror Of his name; after having deluged Europe
with tears and blood, clothed the world in
sack cloth-closed his days in lonely Danish
meut, almost literally exiled from the world,
vet where he could sometimes see his coun-
try's banner waving DER the deep, but which
would not or could not bring him aid
Thus those four men who. from peculiar
situations of their portraits, seemed TO stand
as the representatives oil all those whom the
world calls great those four who each in
turn made the earth tremble TO its very cen
tire by their simple tread, seyeraAy died-one
by in,oxication, or, as some suppose, by POI
son mingled in his wine--one a suicide-one
murdered by his lrienls-snd one in lonely
eAlle.-iiow ale the mighty lalienh