cause-getting

Updated: May 13, 2025

This led me," he adds, "to examine my own style, and I set about reforming it altogether." Mr. Mason was what the lawyers call a "cause-getting man," like Sir James Scarlett, Brougham's great opponent at the English bar.

Daniel Webster - The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster : With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style