Orange Jacobs: “In the parliamentary conflict for the floor which ensued, Blaine's superior knowledge and tact succeeded, and he was…”

He had to rely on his remembrance of general principles; and he learned to reason from those general principles to his conclusions; and his success at the Bar depended upon the clearness of his statements and the cogency and force of his…

The silent influence of our institutions has secured the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands--the gem of the Pacific and the outward bulwark of the Pacific States.

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.

Steam, whose latent energies were then but little known, under the exploitations of science and inventive genius, became, and continues to be the chief motive power of the world.