Word: webster
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Webster you will mark something little skin to the methods of today. I never had the good fortune to hear Mr. Webster. I saw him only once, but the inborn power of oratory that stood in his massive figure I could take for granted. I saw him standing on a corner and I can not remember that he was doing anything but the people in passing looked at him as if he were Bunker Hill monument...
There could hardly be a greater contrast to Webster and Everett than Rufus Choate. He was of that great mysterious individuality which those old families of New England hold within themselves. His powers of language and of the use of the most familiar and unfamiliar words were unequalled. His hold on a jury was that of absolute magnetism. All this school of oratory was swept away by the advance of the antislavery movement and its champion Wendell Phillips. A single public meeting made him an outlaw for life. He felt he should not have been a platform speaker...
...Harvard Sq. at 7.15 by a Tremont House car. The team is as follows: W. C. Arensberg, F. F. Davis, C. H. Dunn, E. B. Escott, E. P. Fay, J. Hewins, P. W. Long, W. J. McDonald, A. W. Ryder, E. E. Southard, T. Spalding, F. E. Thayer, H. Webster...
Caleb W. Loring, an eminent Boston lawyer, died last Friday at Camden, S. C., in the eightieth year of his age. He was the son of Charles Greely Loring who was one of Boston's noted lawyers and a contemporary and friend of Webster and Rufus Choate...
Successor to Webster's Unabridged...