This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...In looking back to this marriage of Shelley's with an individual neither adapted to his conditional life, nor fitted for his companionship by accomplishments or manners, it is surprising, not that it should have ended in a separation, but that for so long a time, (for time is not to b e calculated by years, ) ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...In looking back to this marriage of Shelley's with an individual neither adapted to his conditional life, nor fitted for his companionship by accomplishments or manners, it is surprising, not that it should have ended in a separation, but that for so long a time, (for time is not to b e calculated by years, ) he should have continued to drag on a chain, every link of which was a p rotraction of torture. It was not without mature deliberation, and a conviction common to both, of their utter incapacity of rendering the married state bearable to each other, that they came to a resolve, which, the cold, formal English world, with its conventionalities., under any circumstances short of legally proved infidelity, stamps as a dereliction - of duty on the side of the man. Ours is the only country where the yoke of marriage, when it is an iron one, weighs down and crushes those who have once thrown it over their necks. It may be compared to the leaden mantle in the Inferno. It is true that the Roman Catholic religion in some countries, such as Italy and France, except by the express permission, rarely obtained, (though it was in the case of the Countess Guiccioli, ) of the Pope, does not allow divorces; but separations, tantamount to them, constantly take place by mutual agreement, without placing the parties in a false position as regards society. Spain has emancipated herself from the inextricability of the chain. In Poland and Russia remarriages are of daily occurrence. But let us look into Protestant lands, for we are yet Protestants, and we shall find that inmost of thestates in Germany, nothing is easier than to dissolve the tie.. The marriage laws in Prussia are very liberal. In Norway the parties cannot bb disunited under three years. In...
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