A Critical Essay Concerning Marriage ...: To which is Added, an Historical Account of the Marriage Rites and Ceremonies of the Greeks and Romans, and Our Saxon Ancestors, and of Most Nations of the World at this Day |
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Page 75 - You have more strength in your Looks, than we have in our Laws, and more power by your Tears, than we have by our Arguments.
Page 77 - Society doth so much depend. You are therefore to make your best of what is settled by Law and Custom, and not vainly imagine, that it will be changed for your sake. But that you may not be discouraged, as if you lay under the weight of an incurable Grievance, you are to know, that by a wise and...
Page 165 - A parent, as a parent, hath a natural right to command and correct a child ; and that a child, as husband, should command and correct the same parent is unnatural.^-) To which we may add, the inconsistency, absurdity, and monstrousness of the relations to be begotten if...
Page 128 - Whenas the sober man honouring the appearance of modesty, and hoping well of every social virtue under that veil, may easily chance to meet, if not with a body impenetrable, yet often with a mind to all other due conversation inaccessible...
Page 20 - ... that pay it. Where that faileth, the Homage and the Reverence go along with it, and fly to others where something may be expected in exchange for them.
Page 76 - Laws, an Appeal from the Letter to the Equity, in Cases that require it, it is as reasonable, that some Court of a larger Jurisdiction might be erected, where some Wives might resort and plead specially.
Page 74 - You must first lay it down for a Foundation in general, That there is Inequality in the Sexes, and that for the better Oeconomy of the World, the Men, who were to be the Lawgivers, had the larger share of Reason bestow'd upon them...
Page 21 - ... her title to the government. Therefore, take heed of carrying your good breeding to fuch a height as to be good for nothing, and to be proud of it. Some think it hath a great air to be above troubling their thoughts with fuch ordinary things as their houfe and family ; others dare not admit cares, for fear they mould haften wrinkles : miftaken pride maketh fome think they muft keep...
Page 93 - And the Lord God said, it is not good for man to be alone; I will make him an help meet, for him...
Page 75 - Nature is so far from being unjust to you, that she is partial on your side. She hath made you such large Amends by other Advantages, for the seeming Injustice of the first Distribution, that the Right of Complaining is come over to our Sex. You have...