Marriage customs and rites
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A critical essay concerning marriage . Shewing, I. The preference of marriage to a single life. II. The Arguments for and against a Plurality of Wives and Concubines. III. The Authority of Parents and Governors, in regulating or restraining Marriages. IV. The Power of Husbands, and the Privileges of Wives. V. The Nature of Divorce, and in what Cases it is allowable. VI. The Reasons of prohibiting Marriage within certain Degrees. Vii. The Manner of contracting Espousals, and what Engagements and Promises of Marriage are binding. Viii. The Penalties incurred by forcible and clandestine Marriages, and the Consequences attending Marriages solemnized by the Dissenters. To which is added, an historical account of the marriage rites and ceremonies of the Greeks and Romans, and our Saxon ancestors, and of most Nations of the World at this Day. By a gentleman.
Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.Date: M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]- E-books
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Matrimonial ceremonies display'd wherein are exhibited, the various customs, odd pranks, whimsical tricks and surprizing Practices of near One Hundred disterent Kingdoms and People in the World, now us'd in the celebration and consummation of matrimony. Collected from the papers of an old rich bawdy batchelor; With great Variety of Remarks by him, Serious and Humorous. To which is prefix'd The comical Adventures of Sir Harry Fitzgerbld, who had seven Wives; with the Character of each: A genuine Story. Also an Epigram on Matrimony, in Latin and English, and an Alphabetical Index. Publish'd for the Information and Entertainment of the Ladies and pretty Girls of Great Britain, not forgetting those of Dublin and Tipperary.
Gaya, Louis deDate: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- E-books
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An essay concerning marriage . Shewing, I. The preference of marriage to a single life. II. The Arguments for and against a Plurality of Wives and Concubines. III. The Authority of Parents and Governors, in regulating or restraining Marriages. IV. The Power of Husbands, and the Privileges of Wives. V. The Nature of Divorce, and in what Cases it is allowable. VI. The Reasons of prohibiting Marriage within certain Degrees. Vii. The Manner of contracting Espousals, and what Engagements and Promises of Marriage are binding. Viii. The penalties incurred by forcible and clandestine marriages, and the Consequences attending Marriages solemnized by the Dissenters. To which is added, An Historical Account of the Marriage Rites and Ceremonies of the Greeks and Romans, and our Saxon Ancestors, and of most Nations of the World at this Day. The second edition. By Mr. Salmon.
Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.Date: M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]- E-books
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Marriage ceremonies : as now used in all parts of the world : very diverting especially to ladies / written originally in Italian by Seignoir Gaya.
Gaya, Louis deDate: 1704