 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1858 - 666 sidor
...dignified conversation. His matter was so completely at his command that he scarcely looked at his brief, but went on for more than four hours with a statement...of the term ; it was pure reason. Now and then, for a sentence or two. his eye Sashed nnd hia voice swelled into a bolder note, as he uttered some emphatic... | |
 | 1853 - 666 sidor
...dignified conversation. His matter was so completely at bis command that he scarcely looked at bis brief, but went on for more than four hours with a statement...of the term ; it was pure reason. Now and then, for a sentence or two. his eye flashed and his voice swelled into a bolder note, as he uttered some emphatic... | |
 | Rufus Choate - 1853 - 116 sidor
...dignified conversation. His matter was so completely at his command that he scarcely looked at his brief, but went on for more than four hours with a statement...of the term ; it was pure reason. Now and then, for a sentence or two, his eye flashed and his voice swelled into a bolder note, as he uttered some emphatic... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 510 sidor
...dignified conversation. Ilis matter was so completely at his command that he scarcely looked at his brief, but went on for more than four hours with a statement...of the term ; it was pure reason. Now and then, for a sentence or two, his eye flashed and his voice swelled into a bolder note, as he uttered some emphatic... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 554 sidor
...to have justified the encominms which his adversary passed upon it. Says Webster in a at hia brief, but went on for more than four hours with a statement...that he seemed to carry with him every man of his andience without the slightest effort or weariness on either side. It was hardly eloquence, in the... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 550 sidor
...to have justified the encomiums which his adversary passed upon it. Says Webster in a at his brief, but went on for more than four hours with a statement...demonstration, that he seemed to carry with him every man of hie audience without the slightest effort or weariness on either side. It was hardly eloquence, in... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - 1860 - 352 sidor
...dignified conversation. His matter was so completely at his command that he scarcely looked at his brief] but went on for more than four hours with a statement...of the term ; it was pure reason. Now and then, for a sentence or two, his eye flashed and his voice swelled into a bolder note, as he uttered some emphatic... | |
 | Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown - 1862 - 592 sidor
...dignified conversation. His matter was so completely at his command that he scarcely looked at his brief, but went on for more than four hours with a statement...of the term ; it was pure reason. Now and then, for a sentence or two, his eye flashed and his voice swelled into a bolder note, as he uttered some emphatic... | |
 | Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown - 1862 - 588 sidor
...dignified conversation. His matter was so completely at his command that he scarcely looked at his brief, but went on for more than four hours with a statement...sense of the term ; it was pure reason. Now and then, fpr a sentence or two, his eye flashed and his voice swelled into a bolder note, as he uttered some... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 sidor
...dignified conversation. His matter was so completely at his command that he scarcely looked at his brief, but went on for more than four hours with a statement...of the term ; it was pure reason. Now and then, for a sentence or two, his eye flashed and his voice swelled into a bolder note, as he uttered some emphatic... | |
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Webster entered upon his argument in the calm tone of easy and dignified conversation. His matter was so completely at his command that he scarcely looked at his brief, but went on for more than four hours with a statement so luminous, and a chain of... 
