Excerpt from Life of James Sullivan, Vol. 2: With Selections From His Writings

The life Of a lawyer in full practice is necessarily one Of ceaseless toil, and, where the nature is not selfish or hardened, one also Of constant anxiety. The well-being, the fame and fortune Of his client in his keeping, he moves on, in his honorable career, under a heavy burthen. With his heart peculiarly sensitive to all the various shades Of human suffering and calamity, which constitute the field Of his daily experience, investigations Of legal questions, requiring analysis as patient, and re¿ection as profound, as any in metaphysics or theology, are to be calmly prose cuted, often on the very verge Of an embittered forensic discussion, the more formidable from his inability to antic ipate the precise period Of its approach. Numerous rules and principles, a boundless range Of precedents, and nice distinctions in pleading and evidence, must be continu ally present to his mind, and his faculties kept fresh and energetic for con¿ict, ready for attack, or to parry, accord ing to the position assumed by his subtle antagonists.

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