...speaking in reply to Mr. Choate, on the legal question. He is very clever. With very competent learning, his great mental characteristic is clearness; and...of clear statement is the great power at the bar. Chief Justice Marshall possessed it in a most remarkable degree ; so does Lord Lyndhurst. If to this...

...speaking in reply to Mr. Choate, on the legal question. He is very clever, with competent learning. His great mental characteristic is clearness; and...of clear statement is the great power at the bar. Chief Justice Marshall possessed it in a remarkable degree; so does Lord Lyndhurst. If to this character...

...in reply to Mr. Choate, on the legal question. He is very clever, with competent learning. His groat mental characteristic is clearness ; and the power of clear statement is the great power at the bar. Chief Justice Marshall possessed it in a remarkable degree; so does Lord Lyndhurst. If to this character...

...speaking in reply to Mr. Choate, on the legal question. He is very clever, with competent learning. His great mental characteristic is clearness ; and...of clear statement is the great power at the bar. Chief Justice Marshall possessed it in a remarkable degree ; so docs Lord Lyndhurst. If to this character...

...rather than a showy style. A legal point well stated is half argued." And, as Daniel Webster once said, "the power of clear statement is the great power at the bar." This is true whether the argument be addressed to the court or to the jury, but in other respects the...

...Curtis is now replying to Mr. Choate on a ir law question. He is very clear, and has competent learning. His great mental characteristic is clearness, and...of clear statement is the great power at the bar. Chief Justice Marshall possessed it in a most remarkable degree, so does Lord Lyndhurst. If to this...

...he continued at the bar and during his illustrious career upon the bench. Mr. Webster has said that the power of clear statement is the great power at the bar. That Mr. Marshall had in the most remarkable degree. TIe was little prone to exaggeration and rejected...

...he continued at the bar and during his illustrious career upon the bench. Mr. Webster has said that the power of clear statement is the great power at the bar. That Mr. Marshall had in the most remarkable degree. He was little prone to exaggeration and rejected...

...is of course only the outward evidence of clear thinking. Webster said of him at the age of forty, "his great mental characteristic is clearness; and...of clear statement is the great power at the bar." In spite of the absence of adornment of language and the severe concentration of his arguments he never...

...R. Curtis, was characterized by calm and practical reasoning. Webster said of him in his prime : ' ' His great mental characteristic is clearness, and...of clear statement is the great power at the bar." From the beginning, therefore, of its real life, when Story began his work here, this institution has...