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I possess not that gravity of countenance, nor that dignity of demeanor, nor that solemnity of vocal utterance, so necessary to give full zest even to a well-told tale.
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Jacobs reflects on his own demeanor compared to that of his absent friend.
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Every profession has connected with it two things: a science, and an art.
However, I was trying to show that pioneer lawyers were forced to do their own reasoning, to rely upon their own intellectual powers.
Pioneers, Washington, with all her grand resources--developed and yet to be developed--won by your privations, courage and patriotism, is your gift to the Union, to be consecrated to liberty, regulated by law, forever.
Then he would learn to do his own thinking and reason from the principles laid down in the fundamental works upon the science of the law.
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