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The cobler's letter to the author of Thelyphthora [M. Madan], intended as a supplement to Mr. Hill's address, intitled, "The blessings of polygamy." ... / [Sir Richard Hill].

  • Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet
Date:
1781
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Credit: The cobler's letter to the author of Thelyphthora [M. Madan], intended as a supplement to Mr. Hill's address, intitled, "The blessings of polygamy." ... / [Sir Richard Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to labor through it) you put marriage and Polygamy intirely upon the fame foot- ing {C]. ’Tis in vain my friend offers his qualifying paflages whilft thefe are his avowed fentiments, and whilft in fo many other parts of his book he gives as general an indulgence for the practice of Polyga- my as the pope himfelf does for .whore- dom, by licenfing the public ftews at Rome. ad you purfued any regular plan | in your Treatife, and not run from one thing to another in the loofe unconnected manner you have done, it would have been more eafy to have followed you through- out; but this is certain, that whatever title your different chapters may bear, Polyga- my, Polygamy, Polygamy is the great point in view.—Polygamy, Polygamy, Polygamy the conftant burden. of the fong. | However, let the cobler now put a plain queftion or two, by which, if you C] The note runs as follows.—** The authority on <¢ which this practice (Polygamy) being the fame on “© which marriage it/elf is prohibited, in fo many in- & flances unknown to the feriptures, muft, to be fure, <* be truly refpectable!”’ The author of Thelyphthora allows nobody to {peak ina way of fneer and farcafm but himfelf, will
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