Written compositions remain; but the noblest displays of human genius at the bar--often, perhaps, the successful assaults of Freedom against the fortresses of Despotism--are lost to history and memory for want of needful recordation.
Hoar laments the loss of significant legal arguments to history due to inadequate documentation.
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Judge Hoar strenuously insisted that the Judges of the newly created Circuit Courts of the United States should be made up of the best lawyers, without Senatorial dictation.
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Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
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