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He was one of the very greatest of American lawyers.
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Hoar reflects on the legacy of a prominent lawyer, emphasizing his significance in American legal history.
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He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
As it is, the jetties have been of great value and well worth their cost.
It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
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