Life, Stories, and Poems of John Brougham: Comprising; I. His Autobiography a Fragment; II. a Supplementary Memoir; III. Sketch of His Miscellaneous Writings

Excerpt from Life, Stories, and Poems of John Brougham: Comprising; I. His Autobiography a Fragment; II. A Supplementary Memoir; III. Sketch of His Miscellaneous Writings

What the individual characteristics were of those who immediately preceded me would scarcely interest any one to know; but, believing as I do in the hereditary trans mission of certain innate qualities, I may be permitted to indulge the vanity of saying, that, through the accident of birth, I happened to spring from a. Tolerably well - blooded stock, especially upon the female side.

The paternal branch of our family tree was respectable enough, as far as the bearing of golden fruit could make it so but, indeed, I knew very little about it, as the then representative was furiously enraged with my father for marrying against his inclination having, moreover, aggra yated the crime by choosing a wife whose dower consisted in the wealth of womanly virtue only, one of the gen tlest, kindest, and most lovable souls that Heaven ever lent to earth for a while, my mother.

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