 | Dan Miller, Mark Bracher, Donald D. Ault - 1987 - 410 páginas
...Sullivan (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984), 278. 44 Erdman, Prophet against Empire, 233. "Confusion of Progeny constitutes the essence of the...vows is much more criminal than a man who does it." Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. RW Chapman, new ed. corr. JD Fleeman (Oxford: Oxford... | |
 | Mimi Abramovitz - 1996 - 432 páginas
...fathered by someone else. He explained that "Confusion of progeny constitutes the essence of the crime; therefore a woman who breaks her marriage vows is much more criminal than a man who does it."" Economic Productivity Private homemaking became the centerpiece of colonial womanhood. The colonial... | |
 | Paul King Jewett - 1996 - 508 páginas
...standard but even justified it in theory. See Johnson's argument that the confusion of progeny means that "a woman who breaks her marriage vows is much more criminal than a man who does it" (Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. GB Hill [New York: Harper, 1927], 1.372). All such arguments are miserable,... | |
 | Malcolm Smith - 2002 - 240 páginas
...And, it went without saying, their maids. As Johnson went on: A woman who breaks her marriage vows is more criminal than a man who does it. A man, to be...sure, is criminal in the sight of God: but he does not so do his wife a very material injury, if he does not insult her; if, for instance, from mere wantonness... | |
 | Henry Alan Finlay - 2005 - 456 páginas
...husbands. The difference between the two cases is boundless. The man imposes no bastards on his wife. A man, to be sure, is criminal in the sight of God, but he does not do his wife any very material injury if he does not insult her; if, for instance, he steals privately to her chambermaid;... | |
 | Henry Alan Finlay - 2005 - 456 páginas
...husbands. The difference between the two cases is boundless. The man imposes no bastards on his wife. A man, to be sure, is criminal in the sight of God, but he does not do his wife any very material injury if he does not insult her; if, for instance, he steals privately to her chambermaid;... | |
 | 1791 - 668 páginas
...which the peace of families was deftroyed. He faid, M confufion of progeny conftitutes the eflence of the crime; and therefore a woman who breaks her...marriage vows is much more criminal than a man who docs it. A man, to be fure, is criminal in the fight of God ; but he does not do his wife a very material... | |
 | 1877 - 592 páginas
...legislature no doubt had in view the same лепиmcnts which I)r. Johnson enunciated, when he »»id: "Confusion of progeny constitutes the essence of the...crime; and therefore a woman who breaks her marriage vow is much more criminal than the man who does it. A man, to be sure, is criminal in the eye of Uod... | |
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Confusion of progeny constitutes the essence of the crime ; and therefore a woman who breaks her marriage vows, is much more criminal than a man who does it. 
