Littell's Living Age, Volume 75Living Age Company Incorporated, 1862 |
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Page 157
... marriage would be to the whole Leaf family . But these two were different from others . They only saw their sister Selina , a woman no longer young , and not without her pe- culiarities , going to be married to a man she knew little or ...
... marriage would be to the whole Leaf family . But these two were different from others . They only saw their sister Selina , a woman no longer young , and not without her pe- culiarities , going to be married to a man she knew little or ...
Page 164
... marriages of cousins are followed by a variety of ill effects ; the real point in dispute is whether their evils depend , as the authors we have mentioned maintain , upon an unknown law of nature which is broken by such marriages , or ...
... marriages of cousins are followed by a variety of ill effects ; the real point in dispute is whether their evils depend , as the authors we have mentioned maintain , upon an unknown law of nature which is broken by such marriages , or ...
Page 165
... marriage of a Frenchman or a German to an English wife , or vice versâ ; but the evidence for such a theory is , at least , as good as that upon which we are asked to believe that degen- eracy of race , as it is called , is a natural ...
... marriage of a Frenchman or a German to an English wife , or vice versâ ; but the evidence for such a theory is , at least , as good as that upon which we are asked to believe that degen- eracy of race , as it is called , is a natural ...
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