Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1853-07-07
EXTRACTS FROM NIEBUHR's LETTERS

III we survive danger, IL steels our cOui'
age more than anything else.
Eternity is more real than time; let that
suffice us; the earth Is too small for man
After ell, the most difficult matter is to
walk in humility, and to govern ones sell.
Freedom is quite impossible when the
youth of country are devoid of reverence
and modesly.
am pure Mahometan-a strict Unlta-
rian in administrative affairs, and sbhor all
commissions and the like with my whole
heart.
The old prose writers wrote as if they
were speaking TO an audience; ; bile, a
mong US, prose Is invariably written for The
eve alone.
To be strong in love is The only way TO
become noble, and ell soltening through
education. which is not based on love, is
merely pernlcious.
cannot worship the sbs!ractions Of viz
lue-she only charms me when she ad-
dresses herself TO my heart, speaks through
The love from which she springs.
MIrabeau was indeed great sinner, he
was possessed By devil, but be had a verv
gres, nature, and there is more jov in hes-
ven over one such sinner, than over a hun
dred jus, men.
The creates. man will commit 5lunders
in misfortune, because The want Of propor-
ton between his means aud his ends pro-
gressIvely increases, aud bis inward strength
is exhausted in fruiIIess efforts.
Manly worth, elevation OF intellect, and
IL, III
earth, superhuman, and the best pledge Of
our higher destination, heavenly y origin and
divine illumination.
While am ready to adopt any we'll
grounded opinIon, my inmosl hear, revoIs
against receiving the judgments of Others
respecting persons. and whenever have
done so, have bitterly repenied of it.
Alas, how freedom is expiring on every
side ! have received American papers,
from which il is undeniabIy eviden, WHITTIER
Jeffer sons party are tending. The reguls-
tons making in Louisiana are such that the
president there will be complete monarch
He who merely Grams himself with The
conceptions Of other mems minds. clothed
in forms foreign To his own nature, will
never accomplish much. Quiet and nde-
penden, energetic industry can alone attain
20 what is true, and bring forth what is real
ty useful.
Alchiades was no, wrong when he said
that among Thracians and Persians you
must distinguish yourself after their ashiou;
(if you must or will live among Them, add.
Tor truly il is better 10 remain away ) and
thus il Is my ambition TO rival the Jews,
and surpass our merchants, in the cunning
Of trade.
] would warn every one, whose child
shows bad disposition, to hold him in
while he is Young. for there is not much
fear of breaking his spirit. "Ils innate i'm
pudence will protect him from this; and ]
feel, by myself, that our faults cannot be
torn up with too much violence in child
hood. before they have aiken too deep root.
! remember that ! was terribly passionate
in my childhood, bul being often reproved
for it, strove with such success 10 attain in
difference. that foi time ] was as if dead,
aud only by degrees recovered al all vivid
feeling of real injuries. 1t would have been
better to have let me alone, ill nober feel
lngS had replaced this vehemence
ny people; some Of them interest me by
their quickOess and intelligence, SO that ]
enjoy the time spend with them To GER
tain extent; but, IN the long run, we always
find that where there is no bond OF ali=clion
intercourse is sure To lose its charm, and Of
ten becomes wearIsome.
In order fully to understand, and to give
anr ;opt ap1
history, which forms part Of il, il is in my
opinion, absolutely necessary that should
have read through all the ancient writings
still eXtant, at least once, with the closest
alleniion-lhe more important works many
times-snd acquired a living end familiar
acquaintance with each period
The various spheres of action resemble
The different regions of the atmosphere,
which suit differently organized classes Of
men. Some are most comfortable IN low
countries !; Others in the ordinary middle
atmosphere; others can only exist in the
pure mountain air. belong to the last class
to those who must have freedom for the
soul and intellect, and for this very reason
ought not to have entered into the re-
slrainls Of official life.
This autumn | have read Schiller's Ills
tory of the Thirty Years. War;" aud, time
after time, have raised my hands in aston
ishmeni, not in admiration of the work, O
by no means! but in wonder at the possi-
biily that book like this, which is no,
even tolerabIy well-wrll.en, and in which
the narrative never flows smoothly on, bu,
is ever hsl'iug and stumbling, should be al
lowed 10 rank as classical work. Time
will assuredIy do justice to,ii, and allow the
thing to sink into oblivion.