Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen2A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788 |
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... rank : no man is privileged above another to have a wife ; and therefore po- lygamy is contradictory to the plan of Providence . Were ten women born for one man , as is erroneously reported to be the cafe in Bantam , polygamy might be ...
... rank : no man is privileged above another to have a wife ; and therefore po- lygamy is contradictory to the plan of Providence . Were ten women born for one man , as is erroneously reported to be the cafe in Bantam , polygamy might be ...
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... 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- viduals are degraded below their natural rank , for the benefit of a few ...
... 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- viduals are degraded below their natural rank , for the benefit of a few ...
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... rank of a fervant , a mere in- strument of pleasure and propagation . A- mong many wives there will always be a favourite the reft turn peevish ; and if they refent not the injury against their husband , and against their children as ...
... rank of a fervant , a mere in- strument of pleasure and propagation . A- mong many wives there will always be a favourite the reft turn peevish ; and if they refent not the injury against their husband , and against their children as ...
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... rank are not better treated . The fovereign of Giaga , in Africa , has many wives , who are literally his flaves : one carries his bow , one his arrows , and one gives him drink ; and while he is drink- ing , they all fall on their ...
... rank are not better treated . The fovereign of Giaga , in Africa , has many wives , who are literally his flaves : one carries his bow , one his arrows , and one gives him drink ; and while he is drink- ing , they all fall on their ...
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... rank ; and yet fuch are the brutal manners of the Ruffians , that tyrannical treatment of wives is far from being eradicated . The low condition of the female fex a- mong favages and barbarians , paved the way to polygamy . Savages ...
... rank ; and yet fuch are the brutal manners of the Ruffians , that tyrannical treatment of wives is far from being eradicated . The low condition of the female fex a- mong favages and barbarians , paved the way to polygamy . Savages ...
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