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Show 120 Tin: LIIJ};!lTY nt;\,1,. lace in the obscrvuf lOll of his to him a large P " tor 38 he could lJc, as as great an ora times. Uc w· < l?rom being the . better man. without being a 1 50 to be the attorney of individuals, lC ro . attorney to which he lent h1s . 'ro the causes of tntercsts. na.1ysis, and nrmngc· . . owcrs of memory' a g•g:nntJc P . h courts or in politics, he hcthcr m t 0 mont, w . ll of a commanding Jlrcs- 1 t the mesmeriC spe broug' d . t tho diguity of ciDi[UCnce that transmute m o cncc, 1 ces of the street, an 1 \lowest common p a the s lfl . • ft of what was particularly 1 t' c repchtlon o en omp m I . £ a discrimination in the ble in form or m proo ' fee d more t 1to f rut" t of exquisite taste choice of wor s, lturc a marshnlling of them in than of elaborate cu ' ssiYo as his own . ly ornamented, rna a style sparmg ~ a half century. . the fashion of oratory or ' bram, t rfes and materials of These were the instrumcn a t t t. and irrefragable logic, that only n exhaus tvc . d a . courtesy to assume its premiSes, nn asked you m . . d then pushed you to stand at its pomt of vtow, an. . Dut he lt.s conclusions implacably, moVttably. WEBSTER. 121 brouglJt no substantial odginality, no philosoplty, no warmth from the heart, no aspirations from the religious sentiment. He could be solemn, almo~t awful, like the thunder, novcr brilliant, or dazzling, like heat lightning, and when he descended to be familiar and facetious, he only became feeble. He was self conscious, and greater than hiS thoughts, because his thoughts were alwnys contrivances not inspirations. IIc never was the soul of any cause, as Cobden is of Free Trade and Garrison of Abolitionism. All interests and a11 subjects stood only in tho clienfs relation to him. He advocated both sides of severn! mensures of State policy, but ho never, as it is sntirically phrased, made a hohl>g of either. Ho was not a man of one ,·aea, for he bad not devotion enough to succumb to even one iden. He could feign tJ10 zeal, tho indignation, the pertinacity of his client in arguing his case, but if he lost it, as ho seldom did, ho could walk out of court as coolly as his successful antagonist. When the high tariff sys- 11 |