 | Joel Parker - 1853 - 82 páginas
...form a false estimate of his early manhood, if we understand literally the statement, that " before the meridian of his life, he had come to stand, in...thorough and various legal learning, at the very head of Jhe American bar, and was widely known through the country as the great lawyer before he was known... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1853 - 1016 páginas
...form a false estimate of his early manhood, if we understand literally the statement, that " before the meridian of his life, he had come to stand, in...lawyer before he was known in any other character." Whether the age of thirty-six be regarded as before or after the meridian of life will depend upon... | |
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... radiant with the breath of divinity." We shall not the better comprehend the magnitude and extent of his powers by exhausting upon them all the superlatives which the vocabulary can furnish. We shall form a false estimate of his early manhood, if... 