Woman Physiologically Considered, as to Mind, Morals, Marriage, Matrimonial Slavery, Infidelity and DivorceJ. & H. G. Langley, 1840 - 432 páginas |
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... marriage ; 22. The further showing that even the duration of marriage for a time is justified chiefly by gestation , parturition , lactation and the cares that the child re- quires reducing the woman to dependence on her hus . band ...
... marriage ; 22. The further showing that even the duration of marriage for a time is justified chiefly by gestation , parturition , lactation and the cares that the child re- quires reducing the woman to dependence on her hus . band ...
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... MARRIAGE , p . 102 . Marriage among the inferior animals . - Hume's doctrine as to marriage . The errors it involves . - Monogamy shown to be a natural law , essential to domestic peace and social happiness . → This confirmed by the ...
... MARRIAGE , p . 102 . Marriage among the inferior animals . - Hume's doctrine as to marriage . The errors it involves . - Monogamy shown to be a natural law , essential to domestic peace and social happiness . → This confirmed by the ...
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... marriage . - The cicisbeato and cavalieri serventi . - Infidelity systematized . — Durability of these engagements ... marriage . - Spanish America . - Por . tugal . - Portuguese Colonies . - Infidelity everywhere accompany- ing ...
... marriage . - The cicisbeato and cavalieri serventi . - Infidelity systematized . — Durability of these engagements ... marriage . - Spanish America . - Por . tugal . - Portuguese Colonies . - Infidelity everywhere accompany- ing ...
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Alexander Walker. PART VI . - DIVORCE , p . 217 . What constitutes marriage . - Marriage by men incapable of its duties , fraudulent . - Divorce divided into divorce properly so called and repudiation . - In divorce without children ...
Alexander Walker. PART VI . - DIVORCE , p . 217 . What constitutes marriage . - Marriage by men incapable of its duties , fraudulent . - Divorce divided into divorce properly so called and repudiation . - In divorce without children ...
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... marriage . No power but that of parliament can enable a party to contract a second marriage while the parties to the ... Married people therefore seek relief from the law of Scotland . Comparative number of divorces in Prussia , France ...
... marriage . No power but that of parliament can enable a party to contract a second marriage while the parties to the ... Married people therefore seek relief from the law of Scotland . Comparative number of divorces in Prussia , France ...
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Página 349 - O friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace...
Página 171 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart, Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange: Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
Página 423 - What merely wounds the mental feelings is in few cases to be admitted, where they are not accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal cruelty...
Página 381 - And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller between life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light.
Página 112 - How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies...
Página 232 - ... where love cannot be, there can be left of wedlock nothing but the empty husk of an outside matrimony, as undelightful and unpleasing to God as any other kind of hypocrisy.
Página 246 - But some are ready to object that the disposition ought seriously to be considered before. But let them know again, that for all the wariness can be used, it may yet befall a discreet man to be mistaken in his choice: and we have plenty of examples.
Página 99 - She heard me thus, and, though divinely brought, Yet innocence and virgin modesty, Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won...
Página 401 - ... they become good husbands, and good wives, from the necessity of remaining husbands and wives; for necessity is a powerful master in teaching the duties which it imposes. If it were once understood, that upon mutual disgust married persons might be legally separated, many couples, who now pass through the world with mutual comfort, with attention to their common offspring and to the moral order of civil society, might have been at this moment living in a state of mutual unkindness, in a state...
Página 416 - Likewise, however it be accounted for, the criminal commerce of the sexes corrupts and depraves the mind and moral character more than any single species of vice whatsoever. That ready perception of guilt, that prompt and decisive resolution against it, which constitutes a virtuous character, is seldom found in persons addicted to these indulgences. They prepare an easy admission for every...