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commanding presence; six feet two inches high; broad-shouldered, and of noble mien; a tireless walker; and the best boxer in Harvard University.
Or his renowned compeer, Wendell Phillips, agitator, abolitionist, polished, matchless orator, of whom at twenty-six, in a great meeting at Faneuil Hall (to protest against the work of a mob who had dragged William Lloyd Garrison almost naked through the streets with a rope around his waist, ready to strangle him, which he barely escaped), it was said, as he stepped upon the platform, his manly beauty, dignity, and perfect self-possession won instant admiration; and whose stinging words swept the house, as an autumn gale sweeps the leaves of the forest; tall and superb of figure; who among his many rare gifts and accomplishments was the most skilful fencer of his day in Harvard University.
Look at Mr. Justice Gray, Reporter of the Massachusetts Supreme Court Reports, when ex-President Benjamin Harrison was of those of Indiana, and Senator Chandler of those of New Hampshire; Associate Justice and Chief Justice of that Court; then and ever since Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; a grand presence, six feet four inches high; broad, deep, almost imperious in bearing, clear-skinned, and healthy—a magnificent specimen of a man.
At his brother Associate Justice Harlan, one of Kentucky's greatest two living sons, scarcely shorter, and even sturdier, than Justice Gray, racing him, if not passing him, upon the scales; for he comes from a State pre-eminent for racing and passing everything in sight, and longing for more; a brace of giants ceaselessly wrestling with, and steadily mastering, great problems involving now enormous property; now the welfare of millions;
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