Woman in Sacred History: A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical and Legendary Sources, by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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... husband could be more loyally devoted to a wife than Abraham ; no lover exhibit less of the eagerness of selfish passion and more of en- during devotion than Jacob , who counted seven years of servi- tude as nothing , for the love he ...
... husband could be more loyally devoted to a wife than Abraham ; no lover exhibit less of the eagerness of selfish passion and more of en- during devotion than Jacob , who counted seven years of servi- tude as nothing , for the love he ...
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... husband and make his wife happy than to win military glory or perform public service of any kind . The same regard for family life is shown , in placing the father and the mother as joint objects of honor and veneration , in the Ten ...
... husband and make his wife happy than to win military glory or perform public service of any kind . The same regard for family life is shown , in placing the father and the mother as joint objects of honor and veneration , in the Ten ...
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... husband , and she shall be thy wife . " Here is consideration , regard to womanly feeling , and an opportunity for seeking the affection of the captive by kindness . The law adds , furthermore , that if the man change his mind , and do ...
... husband , and she shall be thy wife . " Here is consideration , regard to womanly feeling , and an opportunity for seeking the affection of the captive by kindness . The law adds , furthermore , that if the man change his mind , and do ...
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... of the treatment of man and woman . Among other nations , adultery was punished severely in the wife , and lightly , if at all , in the * Michaelis , Laws of Moses , III . 5 , § 95 . 1 husband . According to the Jewish law , it was 25.
... of the treatment of man and woman . Among other nations , adultery was punished severely in the wife , and lightly , if at all , in the * Michaelis , Laws of Moses , III . 5 , § 95 . 1 husband . According to the Jewish law , it was 25.
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... husband . According to the Jewish law , it was punished by the death of both parties . If a man seduced a girl , he was obliged to marry her ; and forcible violation was punished by death . While in many other nations , prostitution ...
... husband . According to the Jewish law , it was punished by the death of both parties . If a man seduced a girl , he was obliged to marry her ; and forcible violation was punished by death . While in many other nations , prostitution ...
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