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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	232	232	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10	158	158	Browse	Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register	48	48	Browse	Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct.	26	26	Browse	Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight)	10	10	Browse	Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks)	9	9	Browse	Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8.	8	8	Browse	Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.)	8	8	Browse	Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 3.	6	6	Browse	Search
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739.	5	5	Browse	Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Ought women to learn the alphabet? (search)

naetait pas un Oeuvre du demon. It was the same with political rights. The foundation of the Salic Law was not any sentimental anxiety to guard female delicacy and domesticity. It was, as stated by Froissart, a blunt, hearty contempt: The kingdom of France being too noble to be ruled by a woman. And the same principle was reaffirmed for our own institutions, in rather softened language, by Theophilus Parsons, in his famous defence of the rights of Massachusetts men (the Essex result, in 1778): Women, what age soever they are of, are not considered as having a sufficient acquired discretion [to exercise the franchise]. In harmony with this are the various maxims and bon-mots of eminent men, in respect to women. Niebuhr thought he should not have educated a girl well,--he should have made her know too much. Lessing said, The woman who thinks is like the man who puts on rouge, ridiculous. Voltaire said, Ideas are like beards: women and young men have none. And witty Dr. Maginn

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