Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen2A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788 |
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... respect to any thing ftrange or uncommon . As to what is reported of ancient Greece , Cecrops poffibly prohibited polygamy , or introdu- ced ced fome other matrimonial regulation , which by writers might Sk . VI . 7 Female Sex .
... respect to any thing ftrange or uncommon . As to what is reported of ancient Greece , Cecrops poffibly prohibited polygamy , or introdu- ced ced fome other matrimonial regulation , which by writers might Sk . VI . 7 Female Sex .
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... polygamy , or the union of one man with a plurality of women , will not escape an attentive reader . -St Auguftin and other fathers admit , that polygamy is not prohibited by the law of nature ; and the learned Grotius profeffes the ...
... polygamy , or the union of one man with a plurality of women , will not escape an attentive reader . -St Auguftin and other fathers admit , that polygamy is not prohibited by the law of nature ; and the learned Grotius profeffes the ...
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... polygamy is a grofs infringement of that law . My reasons follow . I urge , in the first place , the equal num- ber of males and females , as a clear indi- cation that Providence intends every man to be confined to one wife , and every ...
... polygamy is a grofs infringement of that law . My reasons follow . I urge , in the first place , the equal num- ber of males and females , as a clear indi- cation that Providence intends every man to be confined to one wife , and every ...
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... polygamy may appear in the present state of things , where inequality of rank and of fortune have produced lu- xury and fenfuality ; yet that the laws of nature were not contrived by our Maker for a forced ftate , where numberless indi ...
... polygamy may appear in the present state of things , where inequality of rank and of fortune have produced lu- xury and fenfuality ; yet that the laws of nature were not contrived by our Maker for a forced ftate , where numberless indi ...
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Lord Henry Home Kames. Polygamy has an effect ftill more perni- cious , with refpect to children even of the moft opulent families . Unlefs affection be reciprocal and equal , there can be no pro- per fociety in the matrimonial state ...
Lord Henry Home Kames. Polygamy has an effect ftill more perni- cious , with refpect to children even of the moft opulent families . Unlefs affection be reciprocal and equal , there can be no pro- per fociety in the matrimonial state ...
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