| Jeremiah N. Reynolds - 1835 - 600 pages
...to any great extent. Public opinion is opposed to it, and were it not, it is very seldom convenient for a man to have more than one wife at a time. The food of the Javans is very simple, being principally of a vegetable character, of which rice is... | |
| James Wilson - 1896 - 94 pages
...may marry four wives, all alive at one time, and a Hindu as many as he pleases, it is not very usual for a man to have more than one wife at a time ; and where he does marry a second wife during the lifetime of the first, it, is generally because the first... | |
| Warren Cheney - 1905 - 352 pages
...wish nor thought to choose. Tell the chief that the reason for the asking was that it is not right for a man to have more than one wife at a time. This Nikta is the only wife he has, and God will not be with him till he puts the other two away. As... | |
| Owen Aloysius Hill - 1920 - 440 pages
...more, but two. He did not say, ' shall cleave to his wives, but to his wife, ' nor was it ever lawful for a man to have more than one wife at a time, unless God by express revelation allowed him the privilege." Many are of opinion that polygamy before... | |
| Reuben Levy - 548 pages
...actual practice in modern times economic conditions make it comparatively rare in most Muslim countries for a man to have more than one wife at a time ; for not every man can provide the separate establishments which the lawbooks as well as custom and... | |
| 1912 - 752 pages
...Senate a bill which became known in history as the Edmunds Law, which made it a penitentiary offense for a man to have more than one wife at a time. What did the Democrats do? Walked right straight up and voted for it, just the same as the Republicans.... | |
| Clarence J. Munford - 1996 - 582 pages
...analysis. He learned to admire Islam, mainly because it espoused polygyny, a form of marriage allowing a man to have more than one wife at a time and thus not disruptive of traditional African culture. Valuing the universal Black African custom that... | |
| Reuben Levy - 2000 - 546 pages
...actual practice in modern times economic conditions make it comparatively rare in most Muslim countries for a man to have more than one wife at a time; for not every man can provide the separate establishments which the lawbooks as well as custom and... | |
| Patricia Buckley Ebrey - 2003 - 310 pages
...marginality of their kinship status. In traditional China it was illegal and socially disreputable for a man to have more than one wife at a time. but he could have as many concubines as he could afford/ In English the term coucubine also is used... | |
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