Judge Shaw then remarked that, sitting at nisi prius in different parts of the State, he had had an opportunity to compare the different lawyers who were distinguished for their success with juries, and that there was no man in the State, in his opinion, who had so much influence with a jury as Sam Hoar of Concord.
Hoar shares a judge's opinion on a lawyer's remarkable influence with juries.
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I took a great interest in the founding of the famous Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and I was the first person named in its Act of Incorporation.
But I cannot see it to be my duty to join in a secession from the Whig Party for the purpose of putting Mr.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
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