 He exerted an intellectual vigor proportioned to the magnitude of the occasion. He saw in it "a pledge of the immortality of the Union, of a perpetuity of national strength and glory, increasing and brightening with age, of concord at home, and reputation...  The Library of American Biography - Page 81by Jared Sparks - 1836Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 694 pages
...particular States, by this more than Amphic" tyonic council," his arguments were characterized by a fervour, earnestness, gravity, eloquence, and force of reasoning,...heard him, that he delivered his own sentiments as a statesman and a citizen, and was not merely solicitous to discharge his duty as an advocate. He exerted... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1822 - 666 pages
...States, by this more than Amphic|{ fyonic council," his arguments were characterized by a fervour, earnestness, gravity, eloquence, and force of reasoning,...heard him, that he delivered his own sentiments as a statesman and a citizen, and was not merely solicitous to discharge his duty as an advocate. He exerted... | |
 | William Pinkney, Henry Wheaton - Politicians - 1826 - 632 pages
...States " by this more than Amphictyonic council," — his arguments were characterized by a fervour, earnestness, gravity, eloquence, and force of reasoning,...his own sentiments as a citizen, and was not merely sdlicitoua to discharge his duty as an advocate. He exerted an intellectual vigour proportioned to... | |
 | William Pinkney, Henry Wheaton - Lawyers - 1826 - 636 pages
...States " by this more than Amphictyonic council," — his arguments were- characterized by a fervour, earnestness, gravity, eloquence, and force of reasoning, which convinced all who heard him thHt he delivered his own sentiments as a citizen, and was not merely solicitous to discharge his duty... | |
 | Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 436 pages
...particular States, by this more than Amphictyonic council," his arguments were characterized by a fervor, earnestness, gravity, eloquence, and force of reasoning,...increasing and brightening with age, of concord at home, and reputation abroad." As to the general nature and operation of our federative system, he thought,... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals - Legal tender - 1863 - 254 pages
...was of that unanimous decision of the ultimate tribunal of the nation, that William Pinckney said, he saw in it " a pledge of the immortality of the Union." Your Honors will have occasion to recur to the opinion anew, and without pausing to follow the train... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1870
...the government of the Union and the particular states. He exerted an intellectual vigor proportionate to the magnitude of the occasion , he saw in it a...perpetuity of national strength and glory increasing and heightening with age, of concord at home and reputation abroad." Such was William Pinkney as a jurist,... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 672 pages
...per&rius." Well might the eloquent and erudite William Pinckney prophetically say, of this opinion, that he saw in it " a pledge of the immortality of the Union." It is an authoritative commentary upon the Constitution and a judicial exposition of its powers and... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 784 pages
...particular states, by this more than Amphic' tyonic council," his arguments were characterized by a fervor, earnestness, gravity, eloquence, and force of reasoning,...heard him that he delivered his own sentiments as a statesman and a citizen, and was not merely solicitous to discharge his duty as an advocate. He exerted... | |
 | Hampton Lawrence Carson - Judges - 1892 - 472 pages
...judicial review of these conflicting sovereign claims by this more than Amphictyonic Council. I see in it a pledge of the immortality of the Union, of...increasing and brightening with age, — of concord at home and reputation abroad." It was an age of great arguments at the bar, and great opinions from the... | |
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