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Within the bar, the talent is superior to what it is without; and I have

been often delighted with the a fineness, if I may use the

expression, hich the Chancellor discriminates the shades of

difference in the various points on which he is called to deliver his

opinion I consider his mind as a curiosity of no ordinary kind It

deceives itself by its own acuteness The edge is too sharp; and,

instead of cutting straight through, it often diverges--alarular subtlety has the

effect of ih

professional accoreat man are otherwise calculated

to inspire His eloquence is not effective--it touches no feeling nor

affects any passion; but still it affords wonderful displays of a lucid

intellect I can co but a pencil of sunshine; in

which, although one sees countless , it

yet illus into the most satisfactory

distinctness, every object on which it directly falls

Lord Erskine is a character of another class, and whatever difference of

opinion may exist with respect to their professional abilities and

attainments, it will be allowed by those who contend that Eldon is the

better lawyer--that Erskine is the greater genius Nature herself, with

a constellation in her hand, playfully illuminates his path to the teuide-book, and Study

with a lantern, cautiously show the road in which the Chancellor warily

plods his weary way to that of legal Equity The sedateness of Eldon is