Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen2A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788 |
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... purchased a woman to be his wife , as one purchases an ox or a sheep to be food . Women by marriage became flaves ; and no man will give his daugh- ter to be a flave , but for a valuable confi- deration . The practice was universal . I ...
... purchased a woman to be his wife , as one purchases an ox or a sheep to be food . Women by marriage became flaves ; and no man will give his daugh- ter to be a flave , but for a valuable confi- deration . The practice was universal . I ...
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... purchase was beginning to wear out . It wore out be- fore the time of Ariftotle ; who infers , that their forefathers muft have been a very rude people . The ancient Spaniards purchased their wives . We have the au- thority of Herodotus ...
... purchase was beginning to wear out . It wore out be- fore the time of Ariftotle ; who infers , that their forefathers muft have been a very rude people . The ancient Spaniards purchased their wives . We have the au- thority of Herodotus ...
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... purchased their wives , as was done all the world over , with liberty to return them if they proved not agreeable . The bride's parents retain- ed the dowry , and her chance for a huf band was as good as ever . The fame cuftom continues ...
... purchased their wives , as was done all the world over , with liberty to return them if they proved not agreeable . The bride's parents retain- ed the dowry , and her chance for a huf band was as good as ever . The fame cuftom continues ...
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... purchases his wives . He may return a wife to her relations ; but they keep the purchase - money . If a woman diflike her hufband , the or her relations must pay to him double the purchase - money . In Ti- mor , an Eaft - Indian ifland ...
... purchases his wives . He may return a wife to her relations ; but they keep the purchase - money . If a woman diflike her hufband , the or her relations must pay to him double the purchase - money . In Ti- mor , an Eaft - Indian ifland ...
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... purchasing wives . Even fo late as the time of Peter I. Ruffians married without feeing each o- ther ; and before folemnization , the bride received from the bridegroom a prefent of fweetmeats , foap , and other little things . The ...
... purchasing wives . Even fo late as the time of Peter I. Ruffians married without feeing each o- ther ; and before folemnization , the bride received from the bridegroom a prefent of fweetmeats , foap , and other little things . The ...
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