I believe my letter spoke of him as an able and graceful pleader, meriting judicial honors, or something of that sort.

Mr. SPECTATOR, Though I am a Practitioner in the Law of some standing, and have heard many eminent Pleaders in my Time, as well as other eloquent Speakers of both Universities, yet I agree with you, that Women are better qualified to succeed in Oratory than the Men, and believe this is to be resolved into natural Causes.

Then there came a chill and a shiver over all, as if the earth had been stopped in her career or the sun fallen from the sky; and the little Pilgrim, looking on, could see the heavenly pleaders come forth with bowed heads and the door of hope shut to, and a whisper which crept about from sea to sea and said, 'In vain!

" There followed an overflowing half-column of warmest praise, embodying felicitations to the unnamed city so fortunate as to secure this "peerless pleader and Prince of Gentlemen."

He sat down calm and fearless as the Duke raged to Michael Texel, as I think, desiring that the fearless pleader could be seized on the instant, and punished for his insolence.

Nor can Ariosto, in this passage, be reckoned a very flattering or conscientious pleader for his brother-poets.

Lord Webb Seymour, the brother of the late Duke of Somerset, gentle, modest, intelligent,Thomas Thomson, the antiquary,and Charles and George Bell, the surgeon and the advocate, Murray, afterwards Lord Murray, the generous pleader, who gave up to its rightful heirs an estate left him by a client,and Broughamformed the staple of that set now long since extinct.

" He wound his arms round the gentle pleader; and, almost ashamed that the father and the husband in his heart, should make him calculate between his own life and that of the gallant crew, he told her, that the tempest raged too tremendously for him to dare stemming it.

He it was who subjected the innocent pleaders of Shokhupura indescribable persecution.

A laborious special pleader, being constantly annoyed by the mewing of his favourite cat, at length resolved to get rid of it.

But it is rather too late for liberal pleaders to urge them in a merely vituperative sense.

The magic power of affection and sympathy rendered every little pleader satisfied and pleased; and, after performing her promise with Allan, she put the final seal to his enjoyment by confiding the little bashful Ellen to his especial care; a charge, which Myrvin declared, caused his son to hold himself up two inches higher than he had done yet.

First, for his personality, as it would have been difficult to separate the Colonel's achievements from his individuality; second, for his oratorical abilities as a sympathetic pleader; and third, for his functions as the leading counsel for the Eureka Ditch Company versus the State of California.

Brave and honest pleader for woman; true, tender, sincere friend, you fought the good fight well; the world is better for your work, and among your saddest survivors are those whom you smote with a deserved pen-stroke, or with spoken words, who have long since given you grateful thanks.

Increasing reputation as a brilliant and successful pleader, and the social influence which this brought with it, secured the rapid succession of Cicero to the highest public offices.

" But Tom proved an eloquent pleader, and love a still more persuasive advocate.