On the record
An eye that tears can on a sudden fill And lips that smile before the tears are gone.
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Hoar presents a poetic image of an orator's ability to evoke emotions in their audience.
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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.
Perhaps, taking him all together, the most brilliant man in Harvard in my time was John Felton.
He would undoubtedly have taken a very high place in the public and official life of his generation if he had found himself in accord with either of the great political parties.
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.
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