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Xantl)ium Strumarium. Natural Order: Conipositit — Aster Family. 



^^IKE some of the human family, certain plants have but very 



^ little biography, and what they have is not very favorable. 



(f^ They necessarily have had progenitors or ancestors, but not 



the illustrious, the noted, the famous ; neither have they 



^[f^S i tA ^^--^ beauty or attractions sufficient to redeem them from ob- 



~Sf > ^' t i.-<i>Q=». scurity. The Clotbur resembles the burdock, the Spanish 



needles, and some others of those provoking plants that scatter their 



seeds by adhering to whatever comes in contact, which they do readily 



by the hooked spines with which the)- are provided. They are mostly 



coarse plants, found in byways, fields, woods and barnyards. 



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ETRACTION is a bold monster, and fears not 

 To wound the lame of princes, if it find 

 ut anv blemish in their li\-es to work on. —.\[nssi)iger. 



"yiS not the wholesome, sharp morality, 



•^ Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, 

 That hurts or wounds the body of a State ; 

 But the sinister application 



Of the malicious, ignorant and base 

 Interpreter; who will distort, and strain 

 The gen'ral scope and purpose of an author 

 To his particular and private spleen. —jonso 



"V riRTUE itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes 

 The canker galls the infants of the spring, 

 For oft before their blossoms be disclos'd, 

 And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, 

 Contagious blastments are most imminent. 



—Sliaifsfea: 



TV TO skill in swordmanship, however just, 

 Can be secure against a madman's tin 

 And even virtue so unfairly match'd. 



Although immortal. 



be prick'd or scratch'd. 



— Cov'per. 



I'M one whose whip of steel can with a lash 

 ^ Imprint the characters of shame so deep, 

 Ev'n in the brazen forehead of proud sin. 

 That not eternity shall wear it out. 



—Ramlolfh. 



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APPY are they that hear their detractions 

 And can put them to mending. —si 



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