 | 1889 - 784 страници
...multiplied. After speaking of the facility and frequency of divorce among the Romans, Gibbon adds : "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.... | |
 | Francis William Newman - 1889 - 526 страници
...According to the various conditions of life, both sexes felt the disgrace and injury. . . . A ipeciout theory is confuted by this free and perfect experiment,...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. It is a favourite notion with some fervent spirits, that the world is very young, our experience very... | |
 | John Henry Barrows - 1893 - 850 страници
...more general good." Gibbon, after speaking of the loose system of divorce among the Romans, adds : " A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue." What can be more convincing than the words of that eminent statesman and scholar, Rt. Hon. William... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - 1893 - 1072 страници
...more general good." Gibbon, after Bpeaking of the loose system of divorce among the Romans, adds: " A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue." What can be more convincing than the words of that eminent statesman and scholar, Rt. Hon. William... | |
 | John Henry Barrows - 1893 - 838 страници
...more general good." Gibbon, after speaking of the loose system of divorce among the Romans, adds : " A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect experiment, which demonstrates that the liberty 6t divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue." What can be more convincing than the words... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1894 - 1232 страници
...and more general good." Gibbon, after speaking of the loose system of divorce among the Romans, adds: "A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue.1' What can be more convincing than the words of that eminent statesman and scholar, Rt. Hon.... | |
 | Francis William Bain - 1899 - 296 страници
...be the hothouses, in which k 'A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect experi' ment, which demonstrates that the liberty of divorce does not 'contribute to happiness and virtue.' Gibbon's Dtclitu and Fall, c:. 44. young men and maidens shall be educated together, and why not the... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1900 - 582 страници
...multiplied. After speaking of the facility and frequency of divorce among the Romans, Gibbon adds : • " 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 - 1901 - 576 страници
...terrestrial deities. This strange law was either imaginary er transient. [Life of Romulus, c. 22.] futed by this free and perfect experiment, which demonstrates...liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness ar_ virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence and inflame every trifling... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1868 - 590 страници
...not now inquire. Let us hope that as far as modern society is concerned the fears of the historian, " that the liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue," applicable to the state of things under the old pagan system, will not be verified. Besides the remaining... | |
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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. 
