He handled his political opposers with great severity which accounts for the mighty effort made to ostracise him from the Bench.
"Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution"
L. Carroll Judson
It is, indeed, doubtful if the man who sang the praises of "Wine, Women, and Song" would have been deemed a fit representative in Parliament or elsewhere by the British Nonconformist conscience of our day; or would be acceptable in any capacity to the grocer-deacon of our provincial towns, who, not content with being allowed to sand his sugar and adulterate his tea unrebuked, would socially ostracise every one whose conduct did not square with his conventional shibboleths.
"German Culture Past and Present"
Ernest Belfort Bax
The endeavor of envy which would ostracise him, is a proof that it is excited by common admiration heaped upon its object.
"Papers from Overlook-House"
Casper Almore