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C 5
Offences against Condition — Adultery
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Facility of the Romans Among the Romans in the earlier ages of the Commonwealth a man's wife was considered
upon the of as his property, [just] as in most respects his children were considered
as his property. He might sell his children
He might repudiate his wife — He might lend her
to another man. Cato, the virtuous Cato lent his
wife to his friend .... Such sort of
[friendship] complaisance generosity is not now in fashion
Were such a kindness favour done a man
out of generosity, it would not be imputed
a gener that principle but to some meaner
motive.
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Facility It may seem inconsistent that while with
respect to every other kind of possession, a facility
in communicating it to a friend should be
deemed an act of generosity a merit, a facility of the same cost shewn
with regard to a wife should ordinarily be deemed an act
of meanness, a vice.
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The case is that []
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— why suspected The selfishness of mankind which can give
way for a while with regard to every other kind
of possession can not near so often give way with regard to a
possession which if it be dear at all is apt to
be so much dearer than any other.
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In other cases the moral sanction is
an assistant and a most powerful one to
the principle of sympathy in disposing men to acts of generosity
It is even able to produce acts of apparent generosity
in a multitude of cases, instances where the power of sympathy
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offences against condition - adultery |
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