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  • Society -- Defects in the Constitution of New Jersey -- A singular pamphlet called "Eumenes" -- Opinion of Hon.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

  • Whatever doubts the women known to the author of "Eumenes" might have had as to their own capacities; the women of to-day do assume to know that they are more capable of self-government than men are, and that they understand the principles that underlie a republic far better than the vast majority of foreigners now crowding our shores, the

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

  • Extract from "Eumenes," page 31, No. 8: "Defects of the Constitution respecting the Qualification of Electors and Elected":

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

  • As to the point made by "Eumenes," "that women are not fit persons to take part in government," "that they do not even pretend to any judgment on the subject," we have simply to say that the writer's prejudices contradict all the facts of our common experience.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

  • "Eumenes," said Meleager, who had been standing ignored in the doorway, "let the dead rest awhile.

    Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

  • Eumenes, a clever Greek who had been Philip's confidential secretary before taking on the same job for Alexander and thus knew—sometimes in a very literal sense—where all the bodies were buried, mediated between cavalry and infantry.

    Babylonian Dreaming Peter Green 2011

  • Mr. Romm admits to having had his heart won by Eumenes.

    Babylonian Dreaming Peter Green 2011

  • The most dramatic of these conflicts was that fought out in the eastern provinces ca. 319-16 between Antigonus and Eumenes, the despised Greek pen-pusher who proved himself the finest general of them all and was only defeated when his own troops sold him to Antigonus in return for their captured baggage-train.

    Babylonian Dreaming Peter Green 2011

  • The news of this fact was brought instantly to Pergamus; Attalus, Eumenes 'brother, proclaimed himself king forthwith, took possession of the crown, and married Stratonice the queen.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Eumenes, though he knew all particulars passed, yet dissembling the matter, kindly embraced his brother, and took his wife into his favour again, as if on such matter had been heard of or done.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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