 A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect experiment, which demonstrates that the liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue.  Southern Quarterly Review - Sida 345redigerad av - 1854Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 506 sidor
...Augustus, sufficiently marks, that the prevailing institutions were least favourable to the males. A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute:... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 sidor
...Augustus, sufficiently marks, that the prevailing institutions were least favourable to the males. A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy CHAP. all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dis-... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 522 sidor
...were least favourable to the males. A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect eiperiment, which demonstrates, that the liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every lulling- dispute... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme, Archibald John Stephens - 1838 - 674 sidor
...Augustus, sufficiently marks that the prevailing institutions were least favourable to the males." A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute... | |
 | 1867 - 796 sidor
...pleasure. According to the various conditions of life, both sexes felt the disgrace and injury. . . . A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. It is a favorite notion with some fervent spirits, that the world is very young, our experience very small,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 440 sidor
...by Augustus, sufficiently marks that the prevailing institutions were least favourable to the males. A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 578 sidor
...and thua it was looked upon as a point of conscience not to 56 LIMITATI01TS OF THE [CH. XLIT. futed by this free and perfect experiment, which demonstrates,...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute:... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 490 sidor
...[E»tayt,\o\. I. On Polygamy, &c.] f [Decline and Fail, &c., cliap. 1 Dicta Fuctuqiie, &c. II. i. 4. iliv.J free and perfect experiment, which demonstrates that...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute... | |
 | William Kay - 1855 - 150 sidor
...speaking of the frequency of divorce among the Romans, and its pernicious results, concludes thus : " A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue." Outside Christendom, polygamy, or conjugal despotism, or facility of divorce, has always prevailed.... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1855 - 566 sidor
...Augustus, sufficiently marks, that the prevailing institutions were least favourable to the males. A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute;... | |
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