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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;
AND PARTICULARLY AN

EXAMINATION of 26 GEO. II. Ch. 33-

COMMONLY CALLED

The MARRIAGE

ACT.

INCLUDING REMARKS ON

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THELYPHTHORA and its SCHEME;

WITH SOME

Hints for the Prevention of Prostitution.

By JAMES COOKSON, CLERK, A.B.
OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD; RECTOR OF COLEMERE
AND PRIOR'S-DEANE, HANTS.

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Quid enim laboro nifi ut VERITAS in omni quæftione explicetur ?
Cic. Tufc. Defputat. lib. iii. çap. 20.

"Polygamy can never be endured under any Rational Civil
"Eftablishment."-Blackstone's Comment. b. iv. ç. 13.

WINCHESTER:

PRINTED BY J. WILKES, FOR THE AUTHOR;
SOLD BY T. CADELL IN THE STRAND, AND J. DEBRETT
OPPOSITE BURLINGTON-HOUSE, PICCADILLY, LONDON.

MDCCLXXXII.

на

987 спу

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.

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