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Page 19
... women , and the sale of men , & c . & c . & c . are circumstances which the old bard seems to relate as the ordinary events of his times , without ever dreaming that there could be much harm in them ; and if it be urged that Homer took ...
... women , and the sale of men , & c . & c . & c . are circumstances which the old bard seems to relate as the ordinary events of his times , without ever dreaming that there could be much harm in them ; and if it be urged that Homer took ...
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... women , and all the of life graces fierce foes to common sense abusive of the living , and approving no one who has not been dead for at least a century . Such fops , as vain , and as shallow as their fraternity in Bond Street , differ ...
... women , and all the of life graces fierce foes to common sense abusive of the living , and approving no one who has not been dead for at least a century . Such fops , as vain , and as shallow as their fraternity in Bond Street , differ ...
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... women , who are themselves equally destructive to the measure of population , by the horrid and cruel custom of ... woman . The operation for this destructive purpose is termed Mee - bra . The burying an infant ( when at the breast ) ...
... women , who are themselves equally destructive to the measure of population , by the horrid and cruel custom of ... woman . The operation for this destructive purpose is termed Mee - bra . The burying an infant ( when at the breast ) ...
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... women , this will make the total of women 1,270 ; of whom we may fairly presume that 800 were capable of child - bearing ; and if we suppose the children of Norfolk Island to bear the same proportion to the adults as at Port Jackson ...
... women , this will make the total of women 1,270 ; of whom we may fairly presume that 800 were capable of child - bearing ; and if we suppose the children of Norfolk Island to bear the same proportion to the adults as at Port Jackson ...
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... women some- times have titles distinct from those of their husbands , although , in England , any body can sell his wife at market with a rope about her neck . To these com- plaints he adds that the English are so far from en- joying ...
... women some- times have titles distinct from those of their husbands , although , in England , any body can sell his wife at market with a rope about her neck . To these com- plaints he adds that the English are so far from en- joying ...
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