Primitive Love and Love-storiesC. Scribner's sons, 1899 - 851 pages |
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... daughter was regarded not only as a virtuous but as a generous deed , which is intelligible if the reason was that there would be fewer mouths to fill in the tribe . " This explains the murders in question but does not SLAUGHTER OF THE ...
... daughter was regarded not only as a virtuous but as a generous deed , which is intelligible if the reason was that there would be fewer mouths to fill in the tribe . " This explains the murders in question but does not SLAUGHTER OF THE ...
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... daughter , or sister . Modern law punishes rape with death , and its victim is held to have suffered a fate worse than death . The brightest of all jewels in a bride's crown of virtues is chastity a jewel without which all the others ...
... daughter , or sister . Modern law punishes rape with death , and its victim is held to have suffered a fate worse than death . The brightest of all jewels in a bride's crown of virtues is chastity a jewel without which all the others ...
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... daughter for a fish - hook or a strand of beads . To decline an offer of this sort is indeed to disparage the charms of the lady , and therefore gives such offence , that , although we had occasion- ally to treat the Indians with rigor ...
... daughter for a fish - hook or a strand of beads . To decline an offer of this sort is indeed to disparage the charms of the lady , and therefore gives such offence , that , although we had occasion- ally to treat the Indians with rigor ...
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... daughter to a guest , also bears witness to the utter indifference to chastity , conjugal and maiden ; as does the custom known as the jus primæ noctis . Dr. Karl Schmidt has tried very hard to prove that such a " right " to the bride ...
... daughter to a guest , also bears witness to the utter indifference to chastity , conjugal and maiden ; as does the custom known as the jus primæ noctis . Dr. Karl Schmidt has tried very hard to prove that such a " right " to the bride ...
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... daughter only if he knows the relationship . There are many instances on record - to which the daily press adds others — of incest- uous unions brought about by ignorance of the consanguinity . Edipus was not saved by an instinct from ...
... daughter only if he knows the relationship . There are many instances on record - to which the daily press adds others — of incest- uous unions brought about by ignorance of the consanguinity . Edipus was not saved by an instinct from ...
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Abipones admiration adoration affection African allowed altruistic amorous ancient animals Australian bride Buje Bushmen called capture chapter charms chastity chief choice cited civilized coarse conjugal courtship coyness custom daughter declares desire Dyaks elopement emotions Eskimos esthetic eyes face fact father favor feeling female feminine Fiji Fijians gallantry girl girl's give Greek hair heart Hindoo honor Hottentots husband incest Indians infanticide ingredients instance Iroquois island jealousy Kaffir Kalidasa killed king live look lover lower races maiden Malavika marriage marry masculine modern modern lover modesty moral mother natives never ornaments parents passion Persian personal beauty poems poets polygamy primitive reason referred refined regard relates remarks romantic love savages says Schoolcraft self-sacrifice selfish sense sensual sentiment sexes sexual sexual selection sister slave squaws story suitor sympathy tattooing tells Theocritus thing tion Tongans tribes true love Urvasi warrior Westermarck wife wives woman women word writes young
Popular passages
Page 713 - Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
Page 721 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field ; Let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, And the pomegranates bud forth: There will I give thee my loves.
Page 819 - Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery, That aptly is put on.
Page 727 - I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Page 153 - A lean cheek ; which you have not : a blue eye, and sunken ; which you have not : an unquestionable spirit ; which you have not : a beard neglected ; which you have not : (but I pardon you for that ; for, simply, your having in beard is a younger brother's revenue :) Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation.
Page 166 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Page 141 - Would through the airy region stream so bright, That birds would sing, and think it were not night. See how she leans her cheek upon her hand ! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek ! Jul.
Page 703 - And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man : abide with me. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Page 718 - Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Page 708 - And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel; and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?