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flefiire marriage ; nature has implanted in them , as KrfeH as ft * nfren , certain feelings , affections and passions , which crtashfcd though they be by society , still crave a natural inheritance of the just dispensations of their Creator . Here are motives enough to account for the pursuit , but it is
a difficult and a trying one , and very apt to end in miserable disappointment . In many cases a girl loves one who is poor and cannot marry , for the machinery of married life is very expensive . He has energy and makes a fortune , but it has taken a long time , and in that time he has seen some one he likes better whom he marries ; or no—like Sir Charles Gran * - dtson , c honour forbids and he is faithful , though he likes the
other better , and marries the poor old , faded , anxious , careworn , grumbling , jealous first love ; no great happiness can be expected there . Or , perhaps he has no energy , and makes no fbrtunfe . Time goes on ; he , seizing any passing pleasure ; she p ining , hoping , fearing , sympathising , dying . Or perhaps her judicious friends persuade her to give it up and Hiarry a rich husband , or she marries of her own accord from pique ; for
the result , go to Doctors' Commons , or read ten thousand romances founded on fact . These are cases in which the power to love exists ; but there are others in which the natural capa * city having been small , it has been utterly crushed by education , and there the whole matter is easy enoug h * Wbe& relations , friends , and perhaps the parties themselves think it wt > uld be very convenient that a certain man should board , lodge and clothe for the rest of their mutual lives , a certain
woman ; and that this woman should keep his house , entertain his guests , and become the mother and nurse of his children , ( see the uses for which marriage was ordained ?) when all this is agreed upon , a ceremony is performed , and the parties concerned swear to love each other for ever , —whether they can or no . Women who make such marriages as these , have lost all capacity for any thing above slavery to ' my lords and gentlemfen , ' nursing children , ( we do not say nursing them Well 5 ) talking
of their own illnesses to their female neighbours , goseipping , cooking , pickling , dressing , giving parties , &c . Such woiAen are to fee found in all ranks , the occupations of course varying with the rank , the mind , or the substitute for mind being tfae g&ttie in all . Far be it from us to say they are unhappy ; they enjoy according to their capacity ; and so do the cow , the * hfc £ p > the pig , all enjoy according to their capacity . " I knew thee that thou art an hard man , reaping where thou hast not sown and
gathering wherfc thou hast not strewed ; and I was afraid fcnd Wetit and hid th y talent in the earth . " This at fctly i-ate fe ftlttt unhappinrfis . Nothing is sought , nothing is obtained . ' She IWes With little joy or fear * like Mhe Lwfy Of Sfcftffdtti'' Thi « f ^ gdWfb te nothingness u the only ttate tor wWfe h WVWetl Ita
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4 jjfo Petition and Stif-Sticrttce .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 430, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/38/
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