Biographical Sketches of the Bordley Family of Maryland for Their Descendants
Biographical Sketches of the Bordley Family of Maryland for Their Descendants
Elizabeth Bordley Gibson
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Doubtless he was so ; but it was for the accuracy of the general result, not for any particular point gained ; while by all it has been admitted, that the native goodness of his heart, and the frank generosity of his tem- per, kept those around him happy and harmonious. It was his well known and well appreciated love of jus- tice, and his unequivocal support of truth, which gave him a weie^ht of character and an influence that he never claimed for himself, by any personal, extraneous, or even o...fficial ris^hts. His hio^hest ambition was to be the orsfan or the en2;ine for administering: to the rio-hts of others, and for awakening, from the bench, an enlightened and general sense of justice and propriety. This unaffected source of dignity, this clear moral per- ception, sustained by a sound sense of religion and respect for the laws, was the more readily felt, acknowledged, and respected, because it did not infringe on the easy, genuine 7* 78 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. urbanity and playfulness of manner, whicli were also and equally his striking characteristics.
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