HOW TO GET STRONG
He was six feet one inch high, erect, and commanding; with high forehead, prominent nose, blue eyes, large mouth, and a powerful, melodious voice. The North American Review, for January, 1866, says: "In no man of our knowledge has ever been combined so much of the forest-chief with so much of the good of the trained man of business as in Henry Clay. This was the secret of his power over classes of men so diverse as the hunters of Kentucky and the manufacturers of New England." Of typical Southern make, long-barrelled, tall, wiry, alert, daring, that seething brain kept the body too active to ever let it get far out of condition.
DANIEL WEBSTER (1782–1852)
"'While Mr. Webster, as a politician and a statesman,' says Mr. Everett, 'has performed an amount of intellectual labor sufficient to form the sole occupation of an active life; there is no doubt that his arguments to the Court, and his addresses to the jury in important suits of law, would, if they had been reported like his political speeches, have filled a much greater space.' And his friend might have added that the labor bestowed in the examination and general treatment of his cases cost him real toil, and required a more thorough employment of his transcendent talents than the preparation of all his arguments, addresses, and speeches, legal and political. The professional work actually performed by his mind during the forty-five years of his public life, if given at the same length as his published efforts, could scarcely have been printed in less than several scores of volumes. And then, when it is considered how that work was performed; how every part of it was executed; what perfection and power were stamped upon all of it, the mind almost staggers at the contemplation. Or, if the mind of any will go on with
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