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Boy as I was, I learned then what was characteristic of Mr. Choate through life his horror of commonplace. Why, he seem ed to say, argue about a thing which an in telligent human being should detect at the first glance 'l He always tried to evade bores, in youth as in age; and to him the most dreadful of bores were well-meaning men, deficient in quickness of apprehension and directness of insight, who were fond of exercising their powers of disputation in the weary work of placing on a logical foundation the indisputable. Godwin once mentioned to Coleridge that he and Mack intosh had been engaged for three hours in an argument without arriving at a definite conclusion. If there had been a man of genius in the room, Coleridge retorted, he would have settled the question in five min utes. Choate had this impatience of a man of genius with long-winded controversies.
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Excerpt from Some Recollections of Rufus Choate
Boy as I was, I learned then what was characteristic of Mr. Choate through life his horror of commonplace. Why, he seem ed to say, argue about a thing which an in telligent human being should detect at the first glance 'l He always tried to evade bores, in youth as in age; and to him the most dreadful of bores were well-meaning men, deficient in quickness of apprehension and directness of insight, who were fond of exercising their powers of disputation in the weary work of placing on a logical foundation the indisputable. Godwin once mentioned to Coleridge that he and Mack intosh had been engaged for three hours in an argument without arriving at a definite conclusion. If there had been a man of genius in the room, Coleridge retorted, he would have settled the question in five min utes. Choate had this impatience of a man of genius with long-winded controversies.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Some Recollections of Rufus Choate
Rufus Choate enjoys a peculiar and exceptional fame among American lawyers,
statesmen, and orators, because of his unlikeness to any of his celebrated contemporaries. One of his friends bluntly remarked, "Webster is like other folks, only there is more of him; but as to Choate, who ever saw or knew his like?" He not only idealized but individualized every thing he touched, and the driest law case, when he was one of the counsel engaged, was converted into a thrilling tragedy or tragicomedy founded on an actual event. He was a poet at the heart of his nature, and instinctively gave a dramatic or epical character to the leading persons concerned in a jury trial.
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