He had a delightful and original literary quality which, if the lines of his life had been cast amid other scenes than the tempest of a great Revolution and Civil War, might have made him a dreamer like Montaigne; and a chivalrous quality that might have made him a companion of Athos and D'Artagnan.
Hoar describes the literary and chivalrous qualities of a historical figure, suggesting how different circumstances could have shaped their life.
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It would have been a worse civil war than that of the Rebellion, because the country would have been divided not by sections, but by parties.
Judge Hoar never doubted that the service of a clean, able, upright Circuit Court, appointed without political influence, and entirely acceptable to the public, was well worth the sacrifice.
The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
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