A flourishing extensive City, this old Nurnberg, with valuable adjacent territory, civic and imperial, intricately intermixed; full of commercial industries, opulences, not without democratic tendencies.

Nay it is almost, in some senses, the LONDON AND MIDDLESEX of the Germany that then was, if we will consider it! This is a place to give a man chances, and try what stuff is in him.

The office involves a talent for governing, as well as for judging; talent for fighting also, in cases of extremity, and what is still better, a talent for avoiding to fight.

None but a man of competent superior parts can do that function; I suppose, no imbecile could have existed many months in it, in the old earnest times.

Conrad and his succeeding Hohenzollerns proved very capable to do it, as would seem; and grew and spread in it, waxing bigger and bigger, from their first planting there by Kaiser Barbarossa, a successful judge of men.