...address and power, and on coming out of the Court Eoom remarked to Gen. Miller, who tells the story, that " he had never before met such a young man as that." The nine or ten years that followed, finished the making of him as a lawyer. He had his office in Portsmouth,...

...intricacy, he was " allowed to examine the witnesses, and briefly to state his case, both upon the law and the facts. Having done this, he handed his brief...he had never before met such a young man as that." * Most of those who, then in mature life, witnessed his early career as a lawyer, have passed away....

...intricacy, he was ' allowed to examine the witnesses, and briefly to state his case, both upon the law and the facts. Having done this, he handed his brief to Mr. Wilson, the senior counsel, for the full argunlent of the matter. But the chief justice had noticed him, and on leaving the court house said...

...witnesses, and briefly to state his case, both upon the law and the facts. Having done this, he handed bis brief to Mr. Wilson, the senior counsel, for the full...chief justice had noticed him, and on leaving the court house said to a member of the bar, that lie liad never before met such a young man as that.'...

...after hearing him in this case that Judge Smith is said to have remarked, on leaving the court-house, that " he had never before met such a young man as that." * Both of these were civil cases. There is also an account of a very powerful speech which he made...

...intricacy, he was ' allowed to examine the witnesses, and briefly to state his case, both upon the law and the facts. Having done this, he handed his brief...chief justice had noticed him, and on leaving the court house said to a member of the bar, that he had never before met such a young man as that.' "...

...jury, he was yet allowed to examine the witnesses, and briefly state his case both upon the law and facts. Having done this, he handed his brief to Mr....Webster, and this was his first action before the court." Israel W. Kelley, Esq., of Concord, the brotherin-law of Mr. Webster, has left a more minute account...

...impressed with the masterly manner in which he conducted it as to remark on leaving the court room, that he had " never before met such a young man as that." Another tradition is that he was first engaged as junior counsel for the prisoner in a trial for murder,...

...after hearing him in this case that Judge Smith is said to have remarked on leaving the court house, that 'he had never before met such a young man as that.' Both of these were civil cases. There is also an account of a very powerful speech which he made in...

...pleading a cause so ably before the chief justice that his Honor remarked, on leaving the court-house, that he had " never before met such a young man as that." A third recalls a famous murder trial in the course of which Webster astonished all present by his...