We cannot therefore wonder that his influence over his party should have been considerable.
But the greatest man among the members of the junto, and, in some respects, the greatest man of that age, was the Lord Keeper Somers.

He was equally eminent as a jurist and as a politician, as an orator and as a writer.

His speeches have perished; but his State papers remain, and are models of terse, luminous, and dignified eloquence.

He had left a great reputation in the House of Commons, where he had, during four years, been always heard with delight; and the Whig members still looked up to him as their leader, and still held their meetings under his roof.
In the great place to which he had recently been promoted, he had so borne himself that, after a very few months, even faction and envy had ceased to murmur at his elevation.

In truth, he united all the qualities of a great judge, an intellect comprehensive, quick and acute, diligence, integrity, patience, suavity.