 | Harry Earl Montgomery - 1911 - 460 страници
...said: "A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect experiment [at Rome], which demonstrated that the liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would . destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute."2... | |
 | Shepherd Braithwaite Kitchin - 1912 - 324 страници
...specious theory," he says, " is confuted by this free and perfect experi* Bryoe, ttii tupra. l\ merit, which demonstrates that the liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue." Although Gibbon could not be said to have any ecclesiastical bias in the matter, he certainly had the... | |
 | Rutherford Hamilton Towner - 1923 - 312 страници
...by Augustus, sufficiently marks that the prevailing institutions were least favorable to the males. A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue." (Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chap. XLIV.) An equal facility of divorce affords to... | |
 | John Langdon-Davies - 1927 - 408 страници
...friendless. A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect experiment, which demon- : strates that the liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1996 - 1030 страници
...Augustus, sufficiently marks, that the prevailing institutions were least favourable to the males. A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect...which demonstrates, that the liberty of divorce does i23. According to Plutarch (p. 57), i24. In the year of Rome 523, Spurius Romulus allowed only three... | |
 | 528 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.... | |
 | 1854 - 434 страници
...marriage by Augustus, sufficiently marks that the prevailing institutions were leant favorable to 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... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne, Rossiter Johnson - 1905 - 438 страници
...by Augustus, sufficiently marks that the prevailing institutions were least favorable 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;... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1853 - 518 страници
...the abdication of one of the associates." But the historian tells us that " The specious theory was confuted by this free and perfect experiment, which...Divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue." (Gibbon, c. 44.) " The abuse of this privilege was justly held up to scorn and indignation by the Roman... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1867 - 942 страници
...According to the various conditions of life, both sexes felt the disgrace and injury. . . . A .-.pP clous theory is confuted by this free and perfect experiment, which demonstrates that thr liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. It is a favourite notion with some... | |
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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. 
