Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Sketch of the Professional and Judicial Character of the Late George Sharswood: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; An Address Delivered Before the Law Association of Philadelphia, November 20, 1883
His life was a blameless one. Some imperfections I pre sums he had, in common with the rest of mankind. What they were I never cared to inquire closely, for he always impressed me with coming as near to the character of a good and just man, as it is possible for any one to reach. A de scription of him in this respect may be summed up in the single sentence spoken at the moment of his departure, by a gentleman who addressed the meeting of the Bar called to gether by his death. A man who at the age of seventy three is admitted by all to have passed a life of fifty years among us without a stain of any kind whatever, public or private, and, as I think, without an enemy, - and I scarcely remember any one who ever came within his in?uence who was not his friend as far as he felt at liberty to so call him self, -requires nothing to be said as to his private character.
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