| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 506 pages
...Augustus, sufficiently marks, that the prevailing institutions were least favourable to the males. A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute:... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...Augustus, sufficiently marks, that the prevailing institutions were least favourable to the males. A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy CHAP. all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dis-... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1831 - 522 pages
...were least favourable to the males. A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect eiperiment, which demonstrates, that the liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every lulling- dispute... | |
| Jean Louis de Lolme, Archibald John Stephens - Constitutional history - 1838 - 674 pages
...Augustus, sufficiently marks that the prevailing institutions were least favourable to the males." A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute... | |
| American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...pleasure. According to the various conditions of life, both sexes felt the disgrace and injury. . . . A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. It is a favorite notion with some fervent spirits, that the world is very young, our experience very small,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 442 pages
...by Augustus, sufficiently marks that the prevailing institutions were least favourable to the males. A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1854 - 578 pages
...and thua it was looked upon as a point of conscience not to 56 LIMITATI01TS OF THE [CH. XLIT. futed by this free and perfect experiment, which demonstrates,...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute:... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Economics - 1855 - 490 pages
...[E»tayt,\o\. I. On Polygamy, &c.] f [Decline and Fail, &c., cliap. 1 Dicta Fuctuqiie, &c. II. i. 4. iliv.J free and perfect experiment, which demonstrates that...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute... | |
| William Kay - Christianity - 1855 - 150 pages
...speaking of the frequency of divorce among the Romans, and its pernicious results, concludes thus : " A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue." Outside Christendom, polygamy, or conjugal despotism, or facility of divorce, has always prevailed.... | |
| Robert Blakey - Political science - 1855 - 566 pages
...Augustus, sufficiently marks, that the prevailing institutions were least favourable to the males. A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute;... | |
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