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 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 506 pages
...of prosperity and corruption, this principle was enlarged to frequent practice and pernicious abuse. Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives...degraded to a transient society of profit or pleasure. According to the various conditions of life, both sexes alternately felt the disgrace and injury: an... | |
 | James Wilson - Law - 1804 - 514 pages
...the case in ancient Rome. " Passion, interest, or caprice," says the Historian of her falling state, "suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage ; a word, a sign, a message, the mandate of a freeman declared the separation ; the most tender of human connexions was degraded... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 410 pages
...of prosperity and corruption, this principle was enlarged to frequent practice and pernicious abuse. Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives...dissolution of marriage ; a word, a sign, a message, » letter, the mandate of a freedman, declared the separation : the most tender of human connections... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 508 pages
...of prosperity and corruption, this principle was enlarged to frequent practice and pernicious abuse. Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives...declared the separation ; the most tender of human connexions was degraded to a transient society of profit or pleasure. According to the various conditions... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...of prosperity and corruption, this principle was enlarged to frequent practice and pernicious abuse. Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives...declared the separation : the most tender of human connexions was degraded to a transient society of profit or pleasure. According to the various conditions... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Latin literature - 1827 - 634 pages
...inclination or convenience. 1 Where the desire of separation existed, a reason for it never was wanting: " Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives...declared the separation ; the most tender of human connexions was degraded to a transient society of profit or pleasure. According to the various conditions... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1830 - 442 pages
...frequent practice and pernicious abuse. Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for th« dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate of afreedman, declared the separation,' the most tender of human connexions was degraded to a transient... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1831 - 522 pages
...of prosperity and corruption, this principle was enlarged to frequent practice and pernicious abuse. Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives...dissolution of marriage ; a word, a sign, a message, a (ISO) On the Oppian law we may hear the mitigating gpeech of Valerius Flaccue, and the severe ceor... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme, Archibald John Stephens - Constitutional history - 1838 - 674 pages
...of prosperity and corruption, this principle was enlarged to frequent practice and pernicious abuse. Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives...word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate of a freedmau, declared the separation, the most tender of human connexions was degraded to a transient... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 pages
...pernicious abuse. Passion, interest, or caprice suggested daily motives for the dissolution of the marriage ; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate of a freed man, declared the separation. The most tender of human connections was degraded to a transient... | |
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