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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, chapter 30 (search)
s life, published by his sons, discloses the character of a model lawyer. Works, Vol. II. p. 127. In him were blended professional knowledge, graceful scholarship, spotless purity, and a refined benevolence. Perhaps there is no name in the annals of the English law to which the mind offers a more spontaneous tribute of love and admiration. See Roscoe's Lives of eminent lawyers (12 American Jurist), 56. He next appears in these Reports in the case of Lord Hampton v. Oxendes, 2 V. 261; Bristow v. Wade, 2 V. 345; Lord Lonsdale v. Littledale, 2 V. 452; and in Higgins v. Crawford, 2 V. 571. In this last case, he was sole counsel in opposition to the Attorney-General, Sir John Scott. From this time forward, his name is of more frequent occurrence, till, in some of the succeeding volumes, it diffuses its light over the chief business of the court. This toil, which one with Sumner's capacity for higher work ought never to have undertaken, proved too much for him. No labor presses