The American Tract Society's almanac for the year of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1861 : being the first after bissextile, and until the fourth of July, the eighty-fifth year of the independence of the United States : calculated for Boston, New York, Washington, and Charleston, and four parallels of latitude, adapted for use througout the country . yoccasion for the exercise of better qualities of head, heart, and consciencethan I fear I possess: occasion for composing quarrels, for leading suitors toa consideration of manly justice, mercy, and forbearance. I earnestly desire,and perhaps
The American Tract Society's almanac for the year of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1861 : being the first after bissextile, and until the fourth of July, the eighty-fifth year of the independence of the United States : calculated for Boston, New York, Washington, and Charleston, and four parallels of latitude, adapted for use througout the country . yoccasion for the exercise of better qualities of head, heart, and consciencethan I fear I possess: occasion for composing quarrels, for leading suitors toa consideration of manly justice, mercy, and forbearance. I earnestly desire,and perhaps to some extent strive to have it a source of daily satisfaction,and in old age a retrospect of professional life, that I have lent myself tono man for revenge, oppression, or injustice ; that I have never allowed aman to go to law without his eyes fully open to its risks, delays, and probablecharges; nor even then, unless all reasonable efforts to compromise havebeen exhausted. . I am clear in the notion that a lawyer is bound not only topromote justice between parties, but also to neglect no opportunity forleading the mind of his client to the perception of justice in all the compre-hensiveness of the term. The aged loses one of the greatest of human rights, — he can no longerbe judged by his peers. THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETYS ALMANAC. 43. WORKING FOR IMMORTALITY. Onr of the old masters in sculpture was noted for the length of time healways spent upon his works. So fine was his eye for the beautiful, that itseemed he would never be satisfied till the form before him should move andbreathe. At one time he was longer than usual over a certain subject inwhich he was all absorbed. The gray dawn found him before the marble,and the shadows of twilight fell upon him still there with chisel in and again it was pronounced finished; but still he saw a touch want-ing here and a line there, and went to work with all the devotion of theartist to a fresh subject. Thus did he re
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