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They will , however , permit me to assure them , that if the author had found any
thing in the divine ceconomy , which tended to support the pride of one part of the
sex , at the expence of the ruin and prostitution of the other , he would most ...
They will , however , permit me to assure them , that if the author had found any
thing in the divine ceconomy , which tended to support the pride of one part of the
sex , at the expence of the ruin and prostitution of the other , he would most ...
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... or revealed , we have reduced the most folemn of all ties to a sort of civil
institution , the most facred of all obligations to a mere civil : contract ' ; and where
the latter can be avoided , the former is as totally vacated , as if it had never been
.
... or revealed , we have reduced the most folemn of all ties to a sort of civil
institution , the most facred of all obligations to a mere civil : contract ' ; and where
the latter can be avoided , the former is as totally vacated , as if it had never been
.
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If it be time which wears out the malignity of such an evil , or the obligation of the
divine law against it , we may as well imagine that other crimes stand in the same
predicament , and the most atrocious violations of the security and happiness of ...
If it be time which wears out the malignity of such an evil , or the obligation of the
divine law against it , we may as well imagine that other crimes stand in the same
predicament , and the most atrocious violations of the security and happiness of ...
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That polygamy was practised throughout all ages of the Jewish economy , cannot
be denied . It is equally evident , that it was the deliberate , open , avowed , and
wilful practice of the most holy and excellent of the earth , of Abraham , the father
...
That polygamy was practised throughout all ages of the Jewish economy , cannot
be denied . It is equally evident , that it was the deliberate , open , avowed , and
wilful practice of the most holy and excellent of the earth , of Abraham , the father
...
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as well as most dangerously for themfelves , if polygamy was a fin againft God's
law ; for it was the common practice of the * whole nation , from the prince on the
throne to the lowest of the people ; and yet neither Isaiah , JEREMIAH , nor any ...
as well as most dangerously for themfelves , if polygamy was a fin againft God's
law ; for it was the common practice of the * whole nation , from the prince on the
throne to the lowest of the people ; and yet neither Isaiah , JEREMIAH , nor any ...
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| Title | Thelyphthora; or, A treatise on female ruin [by M. Madan]. Volume 1 of Thelyphthora; or, A treatise on female ruin [by M. Madan], Martin Madan |
| Author | Martin Madan |
| Edition | 2 |
| Published | 1781 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 31 May 2007 |
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