Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen2A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788 |
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... land of Jeffo , young women sometimes go naked in fummer : if however they meet a ftran- ger , they hang the head , and turn away through fhame . Nature here is their only inftructor * . Some favage tribes have fo little notion of ...
... land of Jeffo , young women sometimes go naked in fummer : if however they meet a ftran- ger , they hang the head , and turn away through fhame . Nature here is their only inftructor * . Some favage tribes have fo little notion of ...
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... land fhe received from her husband at their marriage , " law , " fays fhe , 66 ( 6 ( 6 according to the Salic obliging the husband to give a dowry to his wife . " By the laws of King Ethelbert , fect . 32. a man who committed adultery ...
... land fhe received from her husband at their marriage , " law , " fays fhe , 66 ( 6 ( 6 according to the Salic obliging the husband to give a dowry to his wife . " By the laws of King Ethelbert , fect . 32. a man who committed adultery ...
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... land of Jeffo , near Japan , a man may have two wives , who perform every fort of domestic drudgery . The negroes in general put- chase their wives , and indulge in polyga- my and this is alfo law in Monomotapa . Polygamy and the ...
... land of Jeffo , near Japan , a man may have two wives , who perform every fort of domestic drudgery . The negroes in general put- chase their wives , and indulge in polyga- my and this is alfo law in Monomotapa . Polygamy and the ...
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... land : they are too much defpifed among favages , for fo valuable a privilege . The fierceness and brutality of the ... land , which they can- not defend by the fword . But women came to be regarded in proportion as the national manners ...
... land : they are too much defpifed among favages , for fo valuable a privilege . The fierceness and brutality of the ... land , which they can- not defend by the fword . But women came to be regarded in proportion as the national manners ...
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... land , fuch of them as had no fons , were difpo- fed to evade the law , by ample provisions to their daughters , which rendered the land of little value to the collateral heir- male . To reform that abufe , as termed by those who ...
... land , fuch of them as had no fons , were difpo- fed to evade the law , by ample provisions to their daughters , which rendered the land of little value to the collateral heir- male . To reform that abufe , as termed by those who ...
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