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With the hereditary legislator in whom eloquence is a far-descended attainment a rich echo repeated by powerful voices from Cicero downward we will match some wondrous backwoodsman, who has caught a wild power of language from the breeze among his native forest boughs. But we may safely leave these brethren and sisterhood to settle their own congenialities.
Of the many races to whom belong these storied annals Briton, Pict, Scot, Saxon, Dane, Celt, Norman we of America, whose ancestral lines run back to those islands, are the far-descended children, heirs actual.
On such occasions, Oldbuck, considering that the Baronet's pettishness resembled that of a child, usually showed his superior sense by compassionately making the first advances to reconciliation. But it once or twice happened that the aristocratic pride of the far-descended knight took a flight too offensive to the feelings of the representative of the typographer.
In his endless pedigree, reckoning deities by decimals, innumerable kings, and scores of great heroes, chiefs, and priests. Nor in person, did he belie his origin. No far-descended dwarf was he, the least of a receding race. He stood like a palm tree; about whose acanthus capital droops not more gracefully the silken fringes, than Media's locks upon his noble brow.
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