Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Rufus Choate” in chapter 11, page 186 of Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches:
...s he could plead before a bench of judges.
In the Common Pleas an ordinary pettifogger would often take a case away from him. He could not, if he would, have practised those seductive arts by which Rufus Choate drew the jury into his net, in spite of their deliberate intentions to the contrary.
Yet, Sumner's reputation steadily improved, so that when Longfellow came to live in Cambridge he found Sumner
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