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Concubinage is becoming disreputable. The colored females are growing in self-respect, and are beginning to seek regular connections with colored men. It is the prevailing impression among whites, colored, and blacks, that open licentiousness cannot long survive slavery. Prejudice was another of the concomitants of slavery. Barbadoes was proverbial for it.
It is therefore extremely evident that Madame Maintenon could not be married to the King at the time when she scrupled granting, and when the 'directeur' advised her to grant, those favors which Sarah with so much submission granted to Abraham: and what the 'directeur' is pleased to call 'le mystere de Dieu', was most evidently a state of concubinage.
Many persons accompanied them on horseback and in coaches as far as Orange. To the practical effects of the Mission, the writer bears the following testimony. "Prudence restricts us from naming individuals; and yet we can vouch, that many husbands, separated from their wives and living in concubinage, have put away their mistresses and re-established their legitimate wives in their houses.
There is no honor attached to the married state and no shame to concubinage. "As regards the fidelity of these women, I was assured that in any thing like good times they were rigidly faithful to their paramours; but that, in the worst pinch of poverty, a departure from this fidelity if it provided a few meals or a fire was not considered at all heinous."
Then we went to the newspaper where we had tea and cake at about four. From there to the house of the daughter of a leading statesman of the Manchus, she being a lady of small feet and ten children, who has offered a prize for the best essay on the ways to stop concubinage, which they call the whole system of plural marriage. They say it is quite unchanged among the rich.
Polygamy and concubinage having in process of time become fashionable vices, the number of women kept by the great became at last more an article of grandeur and state, than a mode of satisfying the animal appetite: Solomon had threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
If so, then God is responsible for some of the most shocking transactions that ever disgraced humanity all the pride and vanity and deliberate concubinage that have covered themselves in every age, and are covering themselves still, with the cloak of marriage." "But no," said Martin, "it's not in churches that God marries people.
The higher the rank the larger was the number of concubines and handmaids in addition to the wife proper, the palaces of the kings and princes containing several hundreds of them. This form it has retained to the present day, though associations now exist for the abolition of concubinage.
The name, a social trade-mark, lives on for ages. The line of Japanese emperors, which, in the Constitution of 1889, by adding mythology to history is said to rule "unbroken from ages eternal," is not one of fathers and sons, but has been made continuous by concubinage and adoption. In this view, it is possibly as old as the line of the popes.
And now let the patrons of the theory of human free will measure their own success as recorded by history against that of Protestants. "The Adam and Eve of the New Gospel of Concubinage." This is the honorary title which Catholics bestow upon Martin Luther and Catherine von Bora, who were married June 13, 1525, during the Peasants' War.
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