Book Excerpt: nt myself, thelaws of nature have not permitted me to escape from the influence ofthis common rule. The earliest accounts I possess of my progenitorsrepresent them as a goodly growth of the Linum Usitatissimum, dividedinto a thousand cotemporaneous plants, singularly well conditioned, andremarkable for an equality that renders the production valuable. In thisparticular, then, I may be said to enjoy a precedency over theBourbons, themselves, who now govern no less than four differentstates of Europe, and who have sat on thrones these thousand years.{Linum Usitatissimum = Linum usitatissimum (Cooper's capitalizationvaries) is the botanical name for the variety of flax from which linen ismade}While our family has followed the general human law in the matter justmentioned, it forms a marked exception to the rule that so absolutelycontrols all of white blood, on this continent, in what relates toimmigration and territorial origin. When the American enters on thehistory of his ancestors, he isRead More
Book Excerpt: nt myself, thelaws of nature have not permitted me to escape from the influence ofthis common rule. The earliest accounts I possess of my progenitorsrepresent them as a goodly growth of the Linum Usitatissimum, dividedinto a thousand cotemporaneous plants, singularly well conditioned, andremarkable for an equality that renders the production valuable. In thisparticular, then, I may be said to enjoy a precedency over theBourbons, themselves, who now govern no less than four differentstates of Europe, and who have sat on thrones these thousand years.{Linum Usitatissimum = Linum usitatissimum (Cooper's capitalizationvaries) is the botanical name for the variety of flax from which linen ismade}While our family has followed the general human law in the matter justmentioned, it forms a marked exception to the rule that so absolutelycontrols all of white blood, on this continent, in what relates toimmigration and territorial origin. When the American enters on thehistory of his ancestors, he isRead More
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