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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 180 180 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 28 28 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 27 27 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 24 24 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. 18 18 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 13 13 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 12 12 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) 10 10 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. 7 7 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.) 5 5 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Promotions in the Army. (search)
Yankee heirlooms. A just pride in the past is an incentive to virtue both in a family and a State. We are not speaking of the pride of noble descent, for that is a weakness which nations of the middle classes have no temptation to. When George the Fourth visited Edinburg in 1822, he was so struck with the quiet and respectful deportment of the Scottish multitude that he said, "This is a nation of gentlemen." Glorious old Christopher North, a great admirer of the King, spake as follows upon this observation: "His Majesty knows better than to satirize us. We are not a nation of gentlemen, thank Heaven; but the greater part of our population is vulgar, intelligent, high-cheeked, raw-boned, and religious." And yet no people have more pride, and more reason for pride, in the past than the Scotch. Pride in a virtuous and heroic ancestry, in the sturdy independence and incorruptible integrity which characterizes the humblest condition of humanity in that land; pride which finds a tong