Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Theophilus Parsons” in chapter 5, page 102 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays:
...y 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
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