A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids, Količina 2T. Cadell, 1793 - 256 strani |
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Stran 12 - ... that the fons * of God faw the daughters of men, that they were fair; « and they took them wives of all which they chofe...
Stran 61 - I bequeath my wife Archippe to Phormio, with a fortune of one talent in Peparrhetus, one talent in Attica, a house worth a hundred minae, together with the female slaves, the ornaments of gold, and whatever else may be in it.
Stran 89 - There is upon record a very laudable aft of his, that took place during his office. As the wars had made many widows, he obliged fuch of the men as lived fingle, partly by perfuafion, and partly by threatening them with fines, to marry thofe widows.
Stran 61 - For all thefe hardfhips, which the Athenian women endured, a very poor compenfation was made by the law of Solon, which ordered their hufbands to fleep with them three times a month. Whether the fairer, but weaker, part of our fpecies ihould...
Stran 92 - ... are yet alive, they are carried upon a " bier, with all the formality of a funeral, " their friends and relations attending " them with lamentations ; being arrived " at the gate Collina, they are placed in a...
Stran 59 - All unneceffary reftraints upon love, which contributes fo largely to relieve the anxieties of a laborious life, and upon marriage, which conduces fo eminently to the peace and good order of fociety, are odious in the...
Stran 60 - Philoctemon, that eveji a widow was at the difpofal of her neareft kinfman, either to be married by him, or to be given in marriage, according to his inclination or caprice. Yet more ; a hufband might bequeath his wife, like part of his eftate, to any man whom he chofe for his fucceflbr ; and the mother of Demofthenes was actually left by will to Aphobus, with a portion of eighty minas : the form of fuch a bequeft is...
Stran 189 - As on the smooth expanse of crystal lakes The sinking stone at first a circle makes ; The trembling...
Stran 90 - of the term of thirty years, nothing hin'c dered cC '* dered fuch as defired it from marrying, " upon their quitting their veils *, and the *' other enfigns of their priefthood ; and " fome, though very few, have done this, •*c the end of whofe lives has not been fo " very happy as to tempt others to imitate
Stran 60 - ... by whom fhe was ufually confined to the " minute details of domeftic ceconomy ; " and from whom fhe might in fome in" fiances be torn, for the fake of her fortune, " by a fecond coufin, whom probably fhe " detefted. Nor -was her dependence likely