Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . aslively as those of a man of thirty. When he went out his dress was of thesimplest; a dark coat, with short small-clothes and stockings. But in his roomat home, he preferred the old, household, gavly-figured dressing-gown, theyellow stockings, and black velvet cap. The long pipe was seldom out of his » 1 i 1 • ^ nana ; ana this smoiv
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . aslively as those of a man of thirty. When he went out his dress was of thesimplest; a dark coat, with short small-clothes and stockings. But in his roomat home, he preferred the old, household, gavly-figured dressing-gown, theyellow stockings, and black velvet cap. The long pipe was seldom out of his » 1 i 1 • ^ nana ; ana this smoiving was the only infraction he allowed himself to commitupon his severe rules of regimen. His drink was water, milk, or white beer;his food of the most frugal sort. The whole of his domestic economy was assimple as his dress ami food. Instead of a writing-desk, he used nothing buta large plain deal table, upon which there constantly lay three or four enor-mous folios, in which he had written the history of the cases of his patients, andwhich he used diligently to turn up and write in while conversing with the examination of his patients was made with all the minuteness of whichhe has given us an example in the Organon. JOHN MARSHALL. 40<». JOHN MARSHALL. JOHN MARSHALL, the worthy successor of Jay* and Ellsworthf on the benchof the supreme court of the United States, was born at Germantown, in Vir-ginia, on the 24th of September, 1755. The narrow fortune of his father,Thomas Marshall, who served with distinction as a colonel in the revolutionaryarmy, compelled him to be almost exclusively the teacher of his children ; andto his guiding hand, the chief-justice said, he owed the solid foundation of allhis success in life. * JOHN JAT, the first chief-justice of the United States, was bom in the city of New York, in graduated at Columbia college in 1764, and in 1768 was admitted to the bar. He soon rose to emi-nence as a lawyer, and began to take an active pa
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