. The life of John Marshall. has been loosed by his keep-ers on the gladiator that awaited him. This large,stout man wore corsets to diminish his bulk, usedcosmetics . to smooth and soften a skin growingsomewhat wrinkled and rigid with age, and dressedin a style which would be thought foppish in amuch younger man. x His harsh, unmusical voice,grating and high in tone, no less than his exaggeratedfashionable attire, at first repelled; but these defectswere soon forgotten because of his clear and forci-ble manner of speaking, his powerful and com-manding eloquence, occasionally illuminated withs
. The life of John Marshall. has been loosed by his keep-ers on the gladiator that awaited him. This large,stout man wore corsets to diminish his bulk, usedcosmetics . to smooth and soften a skin growingsomewhat wrinkled and rigid with age, and dressedin a style which would be thought foppish in amuch younger man. x His harsh, unmusical voice,grating and high in tone, no less than his exaggeratedfashionable attire, at first repelled; but these defectswere soon forgotten because of his clear and forci-ble manner of speaking, his powerful and com-manding eloquence, occasionally illuminated withsparkling lights, but always logical and appropriate,and above all, his accurate and discriminating lawknowledge, which he pours out with wonderful pre-cision. 2 Aloof, affected, overbearing 3 as he was, Pinkney 1 Ticknor to his father, Feb. [day omitted] 1815, Ticknor, i, 38-40. 2 Story to Williams, Feb. 16,1812, Story, i, 214; and March 6,1814,ib. 252. 8 At the bar he is despotic and cares as little for his colleagues or. INTERNATIONAL LAW 133 overcame prejudice and compelled admiration by-force of eloquence, logic and legal learning and bythe display of naked talent, testifies Ticknor, whoadds that Pinkney left behind him . all the publicspeaking I had ever heard. x Emmet, the Irishexile, older in sorrows than in years, with anappearance of premature age, and wearing a set-tled melancholy in his countenance, spoke directlyto the point and with eloquence as persuasive as thatof Pinkney was Pinkney had insultedEmmet in a previous argument, and Marshall wasso apprehensive that the Irish lawyer would nowattack his opponent that Justice Livingston had toreassure the Chief The court was as much interested in the oratoryas in the arguments of the counsel. Storys lettersare rich in comment on the style and manner ofthe leading advocates. At the hearing of a causeat about the same time as that of the Nereid, he tellshis wife that Pinkney and Samuel Dexter of Mas
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