Keeping Up with William

Excerpt from Keeping Up With William: In Which the Honorable Socrates Potter Talks of the Relative Merits of Sense Common and Preferred Of Silas Wright and Daniel Webster and Rufus Choate and Charles Sumner, with its Old rifle and powder horn hang ing above the modest mantel and its cases Of worn law books! Beyond the closed door were busy clerks and click ing typewriters, for Mr. Potter's busi ness had grown to large proportions, but here was peace and the atmosphere of deliberation. There was never any haste in this small factory of opinions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.