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