When he concluded, Mr.Webster started up and exclaimed, "Mr.Bosworth, by the blood of all the Bosworths who fell on Bosworth field, that is _the_ point of the case.

Let it be included in the brief by all means." This is highly characteristic of one of Mr.Webster's strongest attributes.

He always saw with an unerring glance "_the_ point" of a case or a debate.

A great surgeon will detect the precise spot where the knife should enter when disease hides it from other eyes, and often with apparent carelessness will make the necessary incision at the exact place when a deflection of a hair's breadth or a tremor of the hand would bring death to the patient.

Mr.Webster had the same intellectual dexterity, the mingled result of nature and art.