Marriage - Humor
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The batchelor's estimate of the expences of a married life . In a letter to a friend. Being an answer to a proposal of marrying a lady with 2000 l. fortune.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]- E-books
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Nuptial dialogues and debates or, an useful prospect of the felicities and discomforts of a marry'd life, Incident to all Degrees, from the Throne to the Cottage. Containing Many great Examples of Love, Piety, Prudence, Justice, and all the Excellent Vertues, that largely contribute to the true Happiness of Wedlock. Drawn from the Lives of our own Princes, Nobility, and other Quality, in Prosperity and Adversity. Also the fantastical Humours of all Fops, Coquets, Bullies, Jilts, fond Fools, and Wantons; old Fumblers, barren Ladies, Misers, parsimonious Wives, Ninnies, Sluts and Termagants; drunken Husbands, toping Gossips, schismatical Precisians, and devout Hypocrites of all Sorts. Digested into serious, merry, and satirical poems, wherein both Sexes, in all Stations, are reminded of their Duty, and taught how to be happy in a Matrimonial State. In two volumes. By Edward Ward, Author of the London Spy.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: 1737- E-books
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A true state of the case between Capt. H----h and Mr. P----e . Wherein the sufferings of an injured lady are faithfully related.
Date: 1750- E-books
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Nuptial dialogues and debates or, an useful prospect of the felicities and discomforts of a marry'd life, incident to all degrees, from the throne to the cottage. ... Digested into serious, merry, and satyrical poems, ... In two volumes. By the author of the London Spy.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: 1723- E-books
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Nuptial dialogues and debates or, an useful prospect of the felicities and discomforts of a marry'd life, Incident to all Degrees, from the Throne to the Cottage. Containing Many great Examples of Love, Piety, Prudence, Justice, and all the excellent Virtues, that largely contribute to the true Happiness of Wedlock. Drawn from the Lives of our own Princes, Nobility, and other Quality, in Prosperity and Adversity. Also the fantastical Humours of all Fops, Coquets, Bullies, Jilts, sond Fools, and Wantons: old Fumblers, barren Ladies, Misers, parsimonious Wives, Ninnies, Sluts and Termagants; drunken Husbands, toping Gossips, schismatical Precisians, and devout Hypocrites of all Sorts. Digested into serious, merry, and satyrical poems, wherein both Sexes, in all Stations, are reminded of their Duty, and taught how to be happy in a Matrimonial State. In two volumes. By Edward Ward, Author of the London Spy.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]