English Domestic Relations, 1487-1653: A Study of Matrimony and Family Life in Theory and Practice as Revealed by the Literature, Law, and History of the Period, Том 19

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Columbia University Press, 1917 - 274 страници
Examines the literature centering around domestic relations in England, including the contract of marriage and subsequent family life, as well as other expressions of fact and opinion that exist from the first appearance of the subject in English writing around 1487 up to its first great crisis in 1653.
 

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Страница 129 - In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broidered hair, or •gold, or pearls, or costly array; 10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
Страница 129 - Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Страница 208 - When, therefore, I perceived that there were three species of liberty which are essential to the happiness of social life ; religious, domestic, and civil ; and as I had already written concerning the first, and the magistrates were strenuously active in obtaining the third, I determined to turn my attention to the second, or the domestic species.
Страница 203 - However, it so incensed our author, that he thought it would be dishonorable ever to receive her again, after such a repulse; so that he forthwith prepared to fortify himself with arguments for such a resolution...
Страница 155 - Give me, next good, an understanding wife, By Nature wise, not learned by much art; Some knowledge on her side will all my life More scope of conversation impart; Besides, her inborne virtue fortifie; They are most firmly good, who best know why.
Страница 66 - Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity forbidden in the word ; nor can such incestuous marriages ever be made lawful by any law of man, or consent of parties, so as those persons may live together as man and wife.
Страница 67 - I make no wonder, but rest confident, that whoso prefers either matrimony or other ordinance before the good of man and the plain exigence of charity, let him profess papist, or protestant, or what he will, he is no better than a pharisee...
Страница 129 - But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed then Eve. And Adam was not deceived ; but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression ; notwithstanding she shall be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and charity, and holiness with sobriety.
Страница 66 - VI. Although the corruption of man be such as is apt to study arguments unduly to. put asunder those whom God hath joined together in marriage: yet, nothing but adultery, or such wilful desertion as can no way be remedied by the Church, or civil magistrate, is cause sufficient of dissolving the bond of marriage: wherein, a public and orderly course of proceeding is to be observed; and the persons concerned in it not left to their own wills, and discretion, in their own case.
Страница 34 - God, but common to mankind, and of public interest in every commonwealth ; yet because such as marry are to marry in the Lord, and have special need of instruction, direction, and exhortation, from the word of God, at their entering into such a new condition ;'and of the blessing of God upon them therein ; we judge it expedient that marriage be solemnized by a lawful minister of the word...

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