Sentences with phrase «eternal watchfulness»

Lord Brougham, later Lord Chancellor, praised Erskine extravagantly: «His indefatigable patience, his eternal watchfulness, his unceasing labour of body and of mind... his untameable spirit, a subtlety which the merest pleader might envy, a quickness of intellect which made up for the host he was opposed to, these were the great powers of the man.»