 | Richard Garnett - 1890 - 448 pages
...that those who are condemned without any Fault of their own to a perpetual Continuance in the World, should not have their Misery doubled by the Load of a Wife. As soon as they have compleated the term of eighty Years, they are look'd on as dead in Law ; their Heirs immediately succeed... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 pages
...that those who are condemned without any Fault of their own to a perpetual Continuance in the World, should not have their Misery doubled by the Load of a Wife. As soon as they have compleated the term of eighty Years, they are look'd on as dead in Law ; their Heirs immediately succeed... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1899 - 254 pages
...that those who are condemned without any fault of their own to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife." Tithonus, it need hardly be said, mourns also for the passion that can no longer touch him, and envies... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1899 - 250 pages
...that those who are condemned without any fault of their own to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife." Tithonus, it need hardly be said, mourns also for the passion that can no longer touch him, and envies... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 414 pages
...that those who are condemned, without any fault of their own, to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled by the load of...as dead in law; their heirs immediately succeed to 30 their estates, only a small pittance is reserved for their support; and the poor ones are maintained... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 418 pages
...that those who are condemned, without any fault of their own, to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled by the load of...After that period, they are held incapable of any " I took," lie says, " a second leave of my master, but as I was. going to prostrate myself to kiss... | |
 | Henry Woodd Nevinson - 1913 - 370 pages
...those who were condemned, without any fault of their own, to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife ; also that they could never amuse themselves with reading, because their memory would not serve to... | |
 | Granville Stanley Hall - 1922 - 594 pages
...of their own kind, the marriage is dissolved as soon as the younger comes to be four-score, for they "should not have their misery doubled by the load...immediately succeed to their estates, only a small pittance being reserved for their support, and the poor ones are maintained at the public charge. After that... | |
 | Shane Leslie - 1928 - 384 pages
...that "those who are condemned without any fault of their own to a perpetual continuance in the world should not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife." Thence Gulliver tacked into realities by journeying to Japan. Here a Dutch disguise was necessary,... | |
 | Julius Thomas Fraser - 1990 - 552 pages
...that those who are condemned without any fault of their own, to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife." Ibid., p. 226. This passage was brought to my attention by a remark in Kastenbaum, op. cit., p. 13.... | |
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... for the law thinks it a reasonable indulgence, that those who are condemned, without any fault of their own, to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife. 
