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 ''unhurt by unbroken work, long withstood the impress of time. Tall of stature and somewhat lean, he rode well, and was always well mounted.'' Cool in battle, whenever requisite he freely exposed himself to danger, but with a modest calm, devoid of all desire of effect. To observe the disposition of the enemy at Königgratz, he rode among the advanced line of skirmishers in the wood of Sadowa. The motto that he took for his coat-of-arms, when he was made Count, instead of his old family device of 'Candide et caute,' 'Erst wägen, dann wagen!' (First weigh, then wage!), well points his military policy. His plans were well weighed—his warfare was waged boldly, sternly, and decisively. Long and carefully he calculated; but when his decision was once made, he rushed straight on to his objective point."

None but an extraordinarily tough, enduring body could have stood the work that that man did; and then have outlasted nine hundred and ninety-five men out of every thousand, clear on to ninety-one years of age.

"Twenty-eight years an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; pronounced 'the most eminent expounder of the Constitution since Marshall.' Born of pioneer stock, amid humble surroundings, at Richmond, Kentucky; a farmer's son, with slight educational advantages; graduated a doctor at Transylvania University; practised medicine ten years; admitted to the bar at thirty-one; removed to Iowa in 1850; commissioned to the United States Supreme Bench by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862. The position he early acquired, and ever maintained on the Supreme Bench, was that of a truly great lawyer. He wrote more opinions of the Court than any judge, living or dead, and participated in more than ten thousand. Had great capacity to seize upon the vital points, and a command of general principles. Says ex-Attorney-General Miller: 'His most striking feature was the logical faculty;