A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other : any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection, would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration. Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer - Sida 46efter Charles Sotheran - 1876 - 51 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1885 - 524 sidor
...to last ? What law ought to specify the extent of the grievances which should limit its duration ? A husband and wife ought to continue so long united...which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment afier the decay of their affection, would Le a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.... | |
| Edward Dowden - 1887 - 592 sidor
...he answers in accordance with the revolutionary creed which he had learnt from Godwin's writings : "A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other. . . . The present system of constraint does no more, in the majority of instances, than make hypocrites... | |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 sidor
...token of everlasting union. She had been reared in Godwin's -school of free thought, as had Shelley. "A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other. . . . The present system of constraint does no more, in the majority of instances, than make hypocrites... | |
| Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton - 1891 - 574 sidor
...votaries live in confidence, equality, and uiireserve. ... A husband and wife ought to continue [only] so long united as they love each other. Any law which...intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration. How odious a usurpation of the right of private judgment should that law be considered which should... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 526 sidor
...to last ? what law ought to specify the extent of the grievances which should limit its duration ? A husband and wife ought to continue so long united...intolerable tyranny and the most unworthy of toleration. How odious an usurpation of the right of private judgment should that law be considered which should... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 542 sidor
...there most pure, perfect and unlimited, where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment...intolerable tyranny and the most unworthy of toleration. How odious an usurpation of the right of private judgment should that law be considered which should... | |
| 1893 - 978 sidor
...dreariest and the longest journey go." In a plausibly written note to " Queen Mab " Shelley says : "A husband and wife ought to continue so long united...they love each other ; any law which should bind them together for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1895 - 780 sidor
...? A husband and war ought to continue so long united ax they love each other : any law which shouM bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intoleralde tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration. How odious an usurpation of the right of... | |
| John Mackinnon Robertson, G. Astor Singer - 1897 - 708 sidor
...define again Shelley's position in regard to marriage. In the notes to " Queen Mab " he writes : " A husband and wife ought to continue so long united...intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration. How odious an usurpation of the right of private judgment should that law be considered which should... | |
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