 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1822 - 772 pages
...eloquence, in which he has never been exceeded, I doubt if ever equalled, by any lawyer in any age. In transacting the most ordinary business, there was...unpresuming suavity, that won the hearts of all his hearers. His most graceful sentences flowed from his lips without pomp or ostentation, as if the words he used,... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...has never been exceeded, I doubt if ever equalled, by any lawyer in any age ! In transacting the mast ordinary business, there was a peculiar grace about...unpresuming suavity, that won the hearts of all his hearers. His most graceful sentences flowed from his lips without pomp or ostentation, as if the words he used,... | |
 | Law - 1856 - 206 pages
...the present age. It has been truly remarked of him, that in transacting the most ordinary forensic business, there was a peculiar grace about his manner,...unpresuming suavity that won the hearts of all his hearers. One faculty of an advocate he possessed above all competition : he never deviated from the point under... | |
 | William Heath Bennet - Great Britain - 1867 - 304 pages
...the present age. It has been truly remarked of him, that in transacting the most ordinary forensic business, there was a peculiar grace about his manner,...unpresuming suavity that won the hearts of all his hearers. One faculty of an advocate he possessed above all competition : he never deviated from the point under... | |
 | Law - 1909 - 1234 pages
...most nervous and forcible speakers at the equity bar. ... in transacting the most ordinary forensic business there was a peculiar grace about his manner,...unpresuming suavity that won the hearts of all his hearers." The same writer comments on the difference between his method when addressing the Court and when addressing... | |
 | Law - 1909 - 310 pages
...equity bar ... in transacting the most ordinary forensic 2 Speeches of Sir S. Romilly, vol. i. 317. business there was a peculiar grace about his manner,...suavity that won the hearts of all his hearers.'' The same writer comments on the difference between his method when addressing the court and when addressing... | |
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It has been truly remarked of him, that in transacting the most ordinary forensic business, there was a peculiar grace about his manner, a gentlemanly ease, an unpresuming suavity that won the hearts of all his hearers. 