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The Medical World - Page 333
1893
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy

George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 pages
...corrected by an educated and religious vote representing the desires of honest and refined persons. If the wants, the passions, the vices, are allowed a full vote, through the hands of a half-brutal, intemperate population, I think it but fair that the virtues, the aspirations, should...
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Works, Volume 11

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 pages
...an Elder and Elderesa are of equal power, — and among the Quakers, — it must not be refused. It is very cheap wit that finds it so droll that a woman should vote. Educate and refine society to the highest point, — bring together a cultivated society of both sexes,...
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Complete Works, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 440 pages
...an Elder and Elderess are of equal power, — and among the Quakers, — it must not be refused. It is very cheap wit that finds it so droll that a woman should vote. Educate and refine society to the highest point, — bring together a cultivated society of both sexes,...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Miscellanies

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 438 pages
...an Elder and Elderess are of equal power, — and among the Quakers, — it must not be refused. It is very cheap wit that finds it so droll that a woman should vote. Educate and refine society to the highest point, — bring together a cultivated society of both sexes,...
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Miscellanies

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 376 pages
...by an educated and religious vote, representing the wants and desires of honest and refined persons. If the wants, the passions, the vices, are allowed a full vote through the hands of a half-brutal intemperate population, I think it but fair that the virtues, the aspirations should be...
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Miscellanies

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 440 pages
...an Elder and Elderess are of equal power, — and among the Quakers, — it must not be refused. It is very cheap wit that finds it so droll that a woman should vote. Educate and refine society to the highest point, — bring together a cultivated society of both sexes,...
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Famous American Authors

Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 pages
...have been the saving of many hearts and fortunes. He believed in suffrage for woman, and said, " It is very cheap wit that finds it so droll that a woman should vote." In war times he spoke in Washington, and Lincoln came with his cabinet to see and listen to the great...
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Bay State Monthly, Volume 4

1891 - 836 pages
...refuse them a vote, on their demanding it, we shall of course also refuse to tax them. He calls it very cheap wit that finds it so droll that a woman should vote. And as for the effect of it, he says that all his points would be sooner carried if she did. "On the...
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The Variety Book Containing Life Sketches and Reminiscences

Lewis Ford - 1892 - 252 pages
...Seward. My opinion has always been that woman's rights are just the same as man's.—Theodore D. Weld. It is very cheap wit that finds it so droll that a woman...vices, are allowed a full vote, through the hands of a half-brutal, intemperate population, I think it but fair that the virtues, the aspirations, should...
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The Altruistic Review, Volume 3

1894 - 444 pages
...many notable examples to illustrate his arguments, and closes with a strong quotation from Emerson: "If the wants, the passions, the vices are allowed...a half brutal, intemperate population, I think it but fair that the virtues, the aspirations, should be allowed a full vote, as an offset, through the...
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