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1 Critical Essay concerning Marriage [i] (1724)

handle is hein.peggy/cresmar0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Critical E S S A Y CONCERNING MARRIAGE. S HEW IN G, I. The Preference of Marriaje to a fingle L ife. IL The Argumeots for and a- gainita Plurality of Wives and Concubines. Il1. The Authority of Parents and Governors, in regulating or reftra!ning Marriages. IV. The Power of Husbands, and the Privileges of Wives. V. The Natueiof Divorce, and in what Cafes it is allowable. V1: The Reafoas of prohibiting :.:Marriage within certain De- grees. VII. The Manner of contra- ing Efpoufals, and what En- gagements and Promifes of Marriage are binding. VIII. The Penalties incurred by forcible and clandeftine Marriages. and the Confe- quences attending Marriages olemnized by the bilrenters. To which is added, An Hifforical Account of the MARRIAGE RITES and CEREMONIES of the Greeks and Roman, and our Sairen Anceflors, and of mol Nations of the World at this Day. By a GEN&KTLEMAN. L 0 NDO N: Printed for CHARLES RIVINGTON at the Bible and Crown in St. Paulrs Church.1'ard. M. DCC. XXIV.