Distinguished American Lawyers: With Their Struggles and Triumphs in the Forum ...C.L. Webster, 1891 - 716 pages |
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... possessed an immediate charm for him , but soon the Bible began to fascinate his mind , and he came out of the trial imposed by the elder Beach with a ripe knowledge of the contents of the great works that had been given as a task to ...
... possessed an immediate charm for him , but soon the Bible began to fascinate his mind , and he came out of the trial imposed by the elder Beach with a ripe knowledge of the contents of the great works that had been given as a task to ...
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... possessed the very attributes which call forth . their splendor and magnificence . magnificence . One was that he never , in all his brilliant career , delivered an address that could be regarded as a strictly public one , nor did he ...
... possessed the very attributes which call forth . their splendor and magnificence . magnificence . One was that he never , in all his brilliant career , delivered an address that could be regarded as a strictly public one , nor did he ...
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... possessed and the power of his gifted mind to array the facts of his case before a jury . This kind of oratory is seldom bestowed by kind Nature ; few are they who can invoke the glow and brilliancy of words that entrance an audience ...
... possessed and the power of his gifted mind to array the facts of his case before a jury . This kind of oratory is seldom bestowed by kind Nature ; few are they who can invoke the glow and brilliancy of words that entrance an audience ...
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... possessed a vocabulary exceeded by but few men in the history of letters . Added to the charm of his oratory was a figure and physique that equally attracted his auditors ; a combina- tion , which , when possessed by the individual ...
... possessed a vocabulary exceeded by but few men in the history of letters . Added to the charm of his oratory was a figure and physique that equally attracted his auditors ; a combina- tion , which , when possessed by the individual ...
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... possessed , and gentlemanly courtesy for which he was noted . Of course , the magnificence of his voice is known only to those who have heard him , and the indi- viduality of the man to those who were nearest to him in his companionship ...
... possessed , and gentlemanly courtesy for which he was noted . Of course , the magnificence of his voice is known only to those who have heard him , and the indi- viduality of the man to those who were nearest to him in his companionship ...
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Page 481 - Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word ; but in the night of death hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Page 28 - ... no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography, since none can be more delightful or more useful, none can more certainly enchain the heart by irresistible interest, or more widely diffuse instruction to every diversity of condition.
Page 42 - A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed, or duty violated, is still with us, for our happiness or our misery.
Page 278 - That every person holding any civil office to which he has been appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and every person who shall hereafter be appointed to any such office, and shall become duly qualified to act therein, is, and shall be, entitled to hold such office until a successor shall have been in like manner appointed and duly qualified, except as herein otherwise provided...
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Page 700 - It did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin ; but my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log cabin, which was raised amid the snow-drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early, that when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney, and curled over the frozen hills, there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada.
Page 702 - Buckminster sought, especially, to persuade me to perform the exercise of declamation, like other boys ; but I could not do it. Many a piece did I commit to memory, and recite and rehearse, in my own room, over and over again ; yet when the day came, when the school collected to hear declamations, when my name was called, and I saw all eyes turned, to my seat, I could not raise myself from it.
Page 478 - We do not know whether the grave is the end of this life, or the door of another, or whether the night here is not somewhere else a dawn. Neither can we tell which is the more fortunate— the child dying in its mother's arms, before its lips have learned to form a word, or he who journeys all the length of life's uneven road, painfully taking the last slow steps with staff and crutch. Every cradle asks us "Whence?
Page 481 - He believed that happiness was the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy ; and were...
Page 278 - Provided, That the Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, and of the Interior, the Postmaster-General, and the Attorney-General, shall hold their offices respectively for and during the term of the President by whom they may have been appointed and for one month thereafter, subject to removal by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.