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... advocate , which from 1836 to 1860 occupied the best years of his life . Joseph Choate , speaking at Edinburgh , told us : “ I lay great stress on Lincoln's career as a lawyer - much more than his biographers do ; I am sure his training ...
... advocate , which from 1836 to 1860 occupied the best years of his life . Joseph Choate , speaking at Edinburgh , told us : “ I lay great stress on Lincoln's career as a lawyer - much more than his biographers do ; I am sure his training ...
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... through his junior partner's reminiscences that we gain the most intimate picture of Lincoln the advocate . To appreciate fully the power of Lincoln among the lawyers of his day , we must not forget how 13 Concerning Abraham Lincoln.
... through his junior partner's reminiscences that we gain the most intimate picture of Lincoln the advocate . To appreciate fully the power of Lincoln among the lawyers of his day , we must not forget how 13 Concerning Abraham Lincoln.
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... advocate that he had heard him defend a mur- derer there . " I concluded , " said Lincoln , " that if I could ever make as good a speech as that , my soul would be satisfied , for it was the best I had ever heard . " In these earliest ...
... advocate that he had heard him defend a mur- derer there . " I concluded , " said Lincoln , " that if I could ever make as good a speech as that , my soul would be satisfied , for it was the best I had ever heard . " In these earliest ...
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... advocate of Chicago , sneered contemptuously at the " long - armed creature from Illinois , " though he learned in the end to admire and respect him . But the public recognised his capacity at once . In spite of physical and social ...
... advocate of Chicago , sneered contemptuously at the " long - armed creature from Illinois , " though he learned in the end to admire and respect him . But the public recognised his capacity at once . In spite of physical and social ...
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... advocate were his industry , honesty , and independence . Writing to a law student who had asked him the best method of studying law , he says : " The mode is very simple , though laborious and tedious . It is only to get books and read ...
... advocate were his industry , honesty , and independence . Writing to a law student who had asked him the best method of studying law , he says : " The mode is very simple , though laborious and tedious . It is only to get books and read ...
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Page 256 - For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
Page 77 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 211 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in Heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page 19 - Herndon reports him as advising a client, "we can doubtless gain your case for you ; we can set a whole neighborhood at loggerheads ; we can distress a widowed mother and her six fatherless children, and thereby get for you six hundred dollars to which you seem to have a legal claim, but which rightfully belongs, it appears to me, as much to the woman and her children as it does to you. You must remember, however, that some things legally right are not morally right.
Page 154 - And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Page 114 - For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture.
Page 127 - The labour of two days, then, is that for which you ask two hundred guineas!" "No; — I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime.
Page 153 - Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?
Page 88 - I can count them bone by bone, The leaves are open and spread But I see the teeth of the land, And hands like a dead man's hand, And the eyes of a dead man's head. There's nothing but cinders and sand, The rat and the mouse have...
Page 36 - Justice directed the jury, that unless the defendant did produce the jewel, and show it not to be of the finest water, they should presume the strongest against him, and make the value of the best jewels the measure of their damages : which they accordingly did.