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347 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Homer D.C.L And .M. The P. For Homeric T...
among daughter the , by competitors parents , is . often The used expression , but we perceive of giving the away similar limits _] or of promising its meaning a
from the passage just quoted . The more so , because expressions as to I do the not proceedings it of would parents have are been applied in to Homer maiden to the m to arriages remain of sing sons le . . open any
almost a That kind all of should suppose law law for for marry the society most , that in numerous its there infant should classes state be , of even no society class as now living Above it may in celibacy all be said I suppose , to was be
widowhood it irregular to be a clear union . _No that with reproach a Dei marriageable hobus arises to and Helen widow when , on Penelop could account not eor . of ordinaril others the renewal in y her remain behalf of her in
p ; , , riage contemp state late , that the change death of is Ul always ysses , treated and her as consequent the immediate release preface from to the another marhusband
crisis " Althoug ht , namel bdamsels h y , social the choice it intercourse mi of ht a innocentl second with man come mig . ht on not occasions , as Nausicaa such as says those , be
sougy , gy afforded _" But b again y public , the festivities persecution , or of by Penelop an ordinary e by the calling Suitors . bears emphatic the limits have describedThe
testimony sin utmost lies of in to bring their the ing aim freedom this is to pressure coerce of woman her to bear within into upon marry her ing before some I the one death moral ; even of as Ul . ysses their her
has violent on the been subject removal ascertained prove is never s . that On thoug it the would ht other of have ; hand and been , the the at pressure absolute variance constrain is silence with a the of prevailin her the one choice poem : g
towards manners , a had particular any cabal person been . formed The very , in presents order even , by to which the profligate Suitors endeavored to ingratiate themselves condition with the women of the of the and
household to shew of , Ul that ysses it # , descended speak favorabl even y # into of the lower free stations # . sex # , seem
marriag " Upon the there whole seems , then to have , in all been that preserved related a to large forming regard engagements to the freedom by
e , and she then dignity became of wom the an prey . War of the was strongest doubtless , and in this it is respect probable her that great this enemy may ; the extensive intro
have been the most powerful instrument in promoting - duction With of respect concubinage to the in ceremonial Greece . of marriageand the nature of its formal
engagement " , the Homeric poems furnish us with , scanty evidence . There is no mention If the , mode in fact of , of entry any into promise the or obli vow gations attending of married it . * life was * as *
sim'' heroic p greatl le and y age enhances indeterminate to what the may strength as be we called have of the the * supposed testimony natural , " such perpetuity borne a b want y the of of the facts formalities marriage of the
contract . Homer " It is each a very should remarkable in its own circumstance way bear emp , that hatic of testimony the two great to thi poems s great of ,
andfor , all countries that can bear it , this most precious law . between ceased * ' , Neither to whom subsist poem the presents And marriage each us tie with , after any in its having case own of a once divorced raises been wife this duly negative ; formed of a coup , evi had le
dence to a form . of the greatest poem cogency , from its way happening to present the circumstances under whichif under anythe dissolution of the bond
very would have been acknowledged . , , . # * * #
" Neither do we want traces in Homer of that remarkable effect of the un an if equal ying power and common of marriage relation , which to the confers famil upon y of the each other partner , by in a convention the union remarkable of
which all the has indications so much upon of the thi moral s subject strength in the of poems fact . is that The which most relates to the
347 Notices Of Books.
347 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/59/
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