POLYGAMY, SUGGESTED BY THE DICTATES OF Scripture, Nature, Reafon, and Common-fense; WITH A DESCRIPTION OF MARRIAGE and its OBLIGATIONS; A CONTEMPLATION OF QUR National SYSTEM of LAWS relative thereto; EXAMINATION of 26 GEO. II. Ch. 33- COMMONLY CALLED The MARRIAGE ACT. INCLUDING REMARKS ON THELYPHTHORA and its SCHEME; WITH SOME Hints for the Prevention of Prostitution. By JAMES COOKSON, CLERK, A.B. Quid enim laboro nifi ut VERITAS in omni quæftione explicetur ? "Polygamy can never be endured under any Rational Civil WINCHESTER: PRINTED BY J. WILKES, FOR THE AUTHOR; MDCCLXXXII. HONOURABLE MRS. JOLLIFFE, THE FOLLOWING DEFENCE OF OUR NATIONAL SYSTEM OF LAWS RELATIVE TO MARRIAGE, THE PROTECTION OF WHICH HAS DISTINGUISHED THE PARLIAMENTARY CONDUCT OF HER WORTHY CONSORT, IS, WITH ALL GRATITUDE AND HUMILITY, MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY HER MOST OBEDIENT AND DEVOTED HUMBLE SERVANT, JAMES COOKSON. |