Husbands Sentence Examples

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  • But then, a lot of women didn't suspect their husbands of... or was that only on TV?

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  • As late as the accession of Assur-bani-pal and Samas-sum-yukin we find the Babylonians appealing to their city laws that groups of aliens to the number of twenty at a time were free to enter the city, that foreign women once married to Babylonian husbands could not be enslaved and that not even a dog that entered the city could be put to death untried.

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  • They were also charged with the maintenance of order in the mir and the family, punishing infractions of the religious law, husbands who beat their wives, and parents who ill-treated their children.

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  • Under the present constitution they are "fully emancipated from all disability on account of coverture," and are placed on an equality with their husbands in acquiring and disposing of property and in making contracts relative thereto.

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  • Both sexes dressed with Puritan plainness; husbands and wives quitted their homes for convents; marriage became an awful and scarcely permitted rite; mothers suckled their own babes; and persons of all ranks - nobles, scholars and artists - renounced the world to assume the Dominican robe.

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  • After acting as culture-giver he disappeared to the east, where he is said to dwell with his grandmother as her husbands 3.

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  • But in Tobit we find Asmodaeus the evil demon, TO 7rovrlpov Sac,uoviov, who strangles Sarah's husbands, and also a general reference to " a devil or evil spirit," 77/€144,a.

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  • His son George, who succeeded, was the earl to whom the custody of Mary Stuart was committed, his task being rendered all the more difficult for him by the intrigues of his second wife, Bess of Hardwick, the builder of Chatsworth, who had married three husbands before her union with him.

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  • They all knew very well that the enchanting countess' illness arose from an inconvenience resulting from marrying two husbands at the same time, and that the Italian's cure consisted in removing such inconvenience; but in Anna Pavlovna's presence no one dared to think of this or even appear to know it.

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  • Mr. Reynolds was comforting a weeping Mums, and all of Josh's sisters had their husbands to comfort them.

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  • Joan and Alice each hugged her and then turned to their husbands.

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  • Chicheley and the other envoys were received on their return as saviours of the world; though the result was summed up by a contemporary as trischism instead of schism, and the Church as giving three husbands instead of two.

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  • But in the more strictly crown, even if of quite humble origin, are "commanded" to court functions with their husbands.

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  • Of his many mistresses the one for whom his passion lasted longest was a certain Vannozza (Giovanna) dei Cattani, born in 1442, and wife of three successive husbands.

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  • The first landing-place was the island of Lemnos, which was occupied only by women, who had put to death their fathers, husbands and brothers.

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  • Even though she be cognisantas she often isof her husbands extra-marital relations, she abates nothing of the duty which she has been taught to regard as the first canon of female ethics.

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  • There he lives surrounded by his numerous family, including his wife, his son, and his son's wife, his three daughters and their husbands, with eleven grandchildren.

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  • In the Kentish laws provision is made for widows to receive a proportionate share in their husbands' property.

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  • According to a famous legend the women were all deserted by their husbands, and in revenge murdered every man on the island.

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  • The Red Karen women weave their own and their husbands' clothing.

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  • Although nearly half the male missionaries (Protestant) are unmarried, these are exceeded in number by the unmarried women; and consequently, the husbands and wives being equal, the aggregate of women in the Missions is greater than the aggregate of men.

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  • The detection of a plot, in which Norfolk was implicated, for the invasion of England by Spain on behalf of Mary, who was then to take him as the fourth and most contemptible of her husbands, made necessary the reduction of her household and the stricter confinement of her person.

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  • The effect of his preaching was immense, and large numbers of women, many of them left desolate by the loss of their husbands on crusade, came under the influence of a movement which was attended with all the manifestations of what is now called a "revival."

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  • The native contracts with the wife gave to her child all the husbands property, and divorce or separation was provided for, entailing forfeiture of the dowry.

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  • After her husbands death the ambitious Hatshepsut assumed the full regal power; upon her monuments she wears the masculine garb and aspect of a king though the feminine gender is retained for her in the inscriptions.

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  • The Kabyle women have stood side by side with their husbands in battle.

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  • The burning of widows on their husbands' funeral-pile was unknown, and the verses in the Veda which the Brahmans afterwards distorted into a sanction for the practice have the very opposite meaning.

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  • Finally, the number of members became fixed, and none but members' sons and sons-inlaw, or members' widows' husbands were received.

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  • It can hardly be doubted that this custom has been largely responsible for the crime of female infanticide, formerly so prevalent in India; as it also probably is to some extent for infant marriages, still too common in some parts of India, especially Bengal; and even for the all but universal repugnance to the re-marriage of widows, even when these had been married in early childhood and had never joined their husbands.

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  • The mean age of husbands married in 1873 was 25.6 years and of wives 24.2, whereas thirty years later the corresponding ages were 28.6 and 26.4.

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  • Aaron wrote the Passion, in 10,000 verses (1802; often reprinted); the lyrical romances of Piram Tisbe (1808) and Sofronim si Hdriti (1821); and the humorous Leonat .i Dorofata, a satire on bad women and on drunken husbands, now a chapbook.

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  • Turkish ideas prevail about their social position; but so highly valued are their services, that parents are often unwilling to see their daughters marry; and wives are in many cases older than their husbands.

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  • Intermarriages had not been uncommon between Frank and Visigoth, but they had rarely led to any other result than to subjct the Arian ladies who were sent from Spain, or the Catholic ladies who came from France, to blows and murder by their husbands and their husbands families.

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  • Constance favored the monks of Cluny, and obtained her husbands favor for them.

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  • One day the two queens, while bathing in the river, fell to quarrelling as to which of their husbands was the greater.

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  • Thank you mother, for your frugal years and taste in prosperous husbands though I paid dearly for number three before I took matters into my own hands.

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  • Wives are not mere appendages or chattels of their husbands, rather the welfare of his wife must be a man's first concern.

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  • Sons and husbands donned aprons and waited on mothers and wives at the supper table.

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  • For example, some customary land registration systems require women to receive authorization from their husbands to independently acquire a land title.

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  • They saved up money from the household budget to enable their husbands to visit the brothel.

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  • Dolores, the wicked fairy has already dispatched 272 previous husbands.

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  • Widows sell their husbands ' gallantry awards because they need the money but this does not apply to the Churchill family.

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  • Other asbestos widows condemned government inaction, saying that if action had been taken sooner their husbands would not have died.

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  • The central layer of each of those partbooks contains motets for two voices by Sances, copied by Charles Husbands Sr. In Mus.

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  • The long silence was full of formless historical memories of murdered husbands and poisonous paramours.

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  • A biting satire on the social aspiration, the play follows two women in their search for respectable husbands.

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  • Married womens ' lack of property rights made them ciphers in economic and social terms, entirely subservient to their husbands ' will.

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  • Are their husbands and their nasty ways the reason why they're so uptight about how they look?

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  • Historically, husbands have often wielded great power over their wives.

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  • It was "of use to thieves by its fume and sheen, being a stone born, as it were, to aid theft," and even opening bars and locks; it was effective as a love potion, and possessed " the power to reconcile husbands to their wives, and to recall brides to their husbands."

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  • St Agnes is the patron saint of young girls, who, in rural districts, formerly indulged in all sorts of quaint country magic on St Agnes' Eve (20th-21st January) with a view to discovering their future husbands.

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  • You must look for husbands for them whether you like it or not....

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  • As for the past two years people have amused themselves by finding husbands for me (most of whom I don't even know), the matchmaking chronicles of Moscow now speak of me as the future Countess Bezukhova.

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  • If the purpose of marriage is the family, the person who wishes to have many wives or husbands may perhaps obtain much pleasure, but in that case will not have a family.

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  • The Church has sold herself to the world, and is now merely like all unfaithful spouses that have betrayed their true husbands.

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  • Are their husbands and their nasty ways the reason why they 're so uptight about how they look?

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  • Jenna and Kate's husbands are Mike and Daniel, respectively.

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  • Since husbands are traditionally the payers of alimony, this section legislation has been dubbed the "2nd Wives" clause, although if the payer is a woman, it also applies to 2nd husbands.

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  • Women associate scents to memories stronger than men, which is why so many ladies purchase colognes for their boyfriends and husbands.

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  • This kit can also be a tool for young children to introduce the subject of death.Most husbands and wives grieve completely opposite and composing the kits together may alleviate some unwanted stress.

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  • Poor management of finances can force companies out of business and drive husbands and wives to divorce court over job-loss stress.

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  • Once they fell asleep, it was hoped they would dream of their future husbands.

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  • For example, many modern brides no longer promise to "obey" their husbands, since many feel this detracts from partnership in marriage.

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  • Women often wear white hoods with the robes, which symbolize their obedience to their husbands.

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  • There have only been two husbands of Marie Osmond, though the two relationships could not have been more different.

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  • The husbands of Marie Osmond are extremely different from one another and this is reflected in many aspects of the marriages.

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  • If this is true, there are a lot of women out there remembering a lot of things their husbands and boyfriends have said about Hendricks.

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  • Considering the number of women who have separated or divorced from their husbands after winning an Oscar, there may indeed be some sort of bad luck associated with the award.

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  • Husbands may also choose a Mother's Day cruise to show his wife how much he appreciates her loving care for his children.

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  • Couples cruises are specially designed to refresh and rejuvenate husbands and wives as they continue their spiritual journey on earth.

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  • We were talking about how to have fun going out with our friends on a budget, with our dogs and yes even our husbands and children.

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  • Yes husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends and so on and you can set this up in a few ways.

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  • For women whose husbands or significant others love golf, buying men's sportswear golf shirts for gift giving occasions can be the perfect present.

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  • You also have to remember that for most of us who are now 50+, when we were growing up the idea of a woman traveling alone or even several women traveling together, without the company of their husbands, was scandalous!

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  • On the home front, married working mothers, even those whose husbands espouse an egalitarian philosophy, still find themselves saddled with most of the housework and child care responsibilities.

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  • The book reported that the husbands of working mothers shoulder, on average, only one-third of the couple's household duties.

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  • In 1990 a survey of 5,000 couples found that only 50 percent of husbands took out the garbage, 38 percent did laundry, and 14 percent ironed.

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  • Family movements are often parallel with what's going on in history - wives moving in with families as husbands go off to war or families moving across country to find better jobs during tough times.

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  • While many women are convinced their husbands are selfish and inconsiderate for not helping out around the house, most men simply don't realize all that their wives are doing.

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  • You can give husbands and wives their own copies of the questions, allow them to answer them separately and then come together to see how many answers they got correct, or simply use the list as a conversation starter during dinner.

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  • Personalized Christmas gifts work well for fathers, grandfathers, sons, uncles, husbands, brothers and nephews.

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  • In England, it was customary for unmarried women to eat gingerbread men as a ritual to help them meet suitable husbands.

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  • Less well known is polyandry, the term for one women having multiple husbands.

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  • I also hear from women who check the site and find their husbands on it.

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  • However, even husbands and wives can surprise their spouses with a bit of attentiveness.

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  • Have you been dealing with cheating husbands?

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  • Boyfriends and husbands enjoy a good romantic gift that is fun, funny and practical.

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  • Cougars are also fun because they re not seeking husbands, social status or promotion when they date, but good looking young men who are fun to be with.

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  • Even women who dream of large diamonds usually don't want their future husbands to go into deep debt after purchasing an engagement ring.

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  • Many wealthy women actually do purchase their own engagement rings because their husbands cannot compete with the price tags of the other jewels in their collection.

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  • Many husbands choose to give them as anniversary presents particularly if the number of stones matches the anniversary.

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  • Many men enjoy different types of diamond jewelry as well, and there are many suitable pieces available to give to devoted husbands.

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  • Diamond anniversary rings are a popular gift from husbands to wives, regardless of whether they are celebrating their first or their fiftieth anniversary.

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  • Perhaps the most important consideration when choosing an anniversary ring is to demonstrate the intimate knowledge of one's spouse, that special connection that husbands and wives share.

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  • New husbands and wives may give each other a special piece of jewelry as as a gift to mark their special day.

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  • Some reasons for "institutionalizing" people back during the early 1800s included alcoholism, depression, women in menopause, racism against individuals of other cultures, or for disobeying husbands or fathers.

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  • The struggles they faced as she wanted to work and had to balance a chosen job with her family life was something husbands and wives everywhere could relate to.

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  • Husbands and sons were just as likely to watch the shows with their wives and mothers as the other women in the family were.

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  • Brooke's also been involved romantically with two of daughter Bridget's husbands (Deacon and Nick).

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  • Despite her many husbands, Erica's true love appeared on the screen in the late 1980s when her daughter Bianca was born.

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  • Since then, Mary Alice's voice narrates each episode, detailing the trials and tribulations of the wives, their husbands and their families.

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  • The women work to get back to normal even as their husbands are deployed.

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  • Family always comes first, for both the deployed servicemen and women, and their wives and husbands back home.

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  • The end of World War I therefore gave people all over Europe and America the feeling that this was the last time their husbands and sons would be going off to war.

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  • They make thoughtful and inexpensive gifts for brothers, sons, boyfriends, husbands and partners.

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  • Buddy also employs three of his sister's husbands.

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  • Oddly enough, many of the past and current stars of these shows have gone on to divorce their husbands.

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  • The topic of a wife's health is another hot topic, as many people make the claim that women who have one child after another are putting their health at risk or are being placed into a subservient position by their husbands.

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  • The husbands also help to make the show interesting, as do other recurring characters such as Lisa's house guest who appears to have no exit date from enjoying Lisa's hospitality.

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  • It's not all about the husbands on this mob family reality show, either.

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  • When Joanna expresses her fear to her husband, he dismisses it, but continues to spend more and more time at the men's club with the other husbands.

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  • Some are patriotic and show support for husbands at war, while others are reverent and commemorate the loss of husbands or other at war.

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  • Considering all the things she had heard, husbands as responsible and trustworthy as Alex were a rare breed.

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  • Husbands of adulterous wives are advised not to remarry during the lifetime of the guilty party.

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  • His later years were clouded with many sorrows and disappointments; his relations with Governor Joseph Dudley were unfriendly; he lost much of his former prestige in the Church - his own congregation dwindled - and in the college; his uncle John Cotton was expelled from his 8 8 4 _ Mather, Increase charge in the Plymouth Church; his son Increase turned out a ne'er-do-well; four of his children and his second wife died in November 1713; his wife's brothers and the husbands of his sisters were ungodly and violent men; his favourite daughter Katherine, who "understood Latin and read Hebrew fluently," died in 1716; his third wife went mad in 1719; his personal enemies circulated incredible scandals about him; and in 1724-1725 he saw a Liberal once more preferred to him as a new president of Harvard.

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  • They notice the selfdenying affection of the mothers, and the hard treatment of the wives by the husbands, polygamy and the shifting marriage unions.

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  • They talked of how they would live when they were married, how their husbands would be friends, and how happy they would be.

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  • If the purpose of food is nourishment and the purpose of marriage is the family, the whole question resolves itself into not eating more than one can digest, and not having more wives or husbands than are needed for the family--that is, one wife or one husband.

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