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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 128 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 21 3 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905 9 1 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 8 0 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. 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 6 0 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 6 0 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 5 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 27: the antidote to money (search)
John appears in the form of some impoverished cousin of a countess, or one of those led-captains of whom we read in old English novels. As our war correspondents during the Civil War used frankly to avow that they picked up incidents from deserters or intelligent contrabands, and described them as personal observations; so any capable woman, trained by long practice, can no doubt extract from the very outskirts of a Queen's Drawing Room materials for a minute inventory of the Duchess of Marlborough's diamonds, with incidental remarks quoted from the dear duchess or from a former lady of honor. We are steadily outgrowing the impression that wealth is a peculiarly American institution, or exerts its chief charms in this country. The love of it is hardly to be called a transplanted taste, for its spell is as old as the history of the world and as wide as the earth's circumference. There is nowhere a tribe so savage in Asia or Africa that the prestige of power does not attach itsel