| 1772 - 420 pągines
...conceive but they may be as capable of chufing a wife at the age of twenty-one, as of being entrufted with the regency of the kingdom, of which by law they are...deferring their age of majority as to marriage till twenty -fix, is impolitic and dangerous, as it may tend to drive them into a diforderly courfe of life,... | |
| 1772 - 456 pągines
...conceive but they may be as capable of chufing a wife at the age of twenty-one, as of being entrufted with the regency of the kingdom, of which by law they are at that age capable. We alfo conceive that ti« deferring their age of majority as to marriage till twenty-fix, is impolitic and dangerous, as... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1773 - 590 pągines
...conceive but they may be as capable of chufmg a wife at the age of twenty-one, as of being entrufted with the regency of the kingdom, of which by law they are...the deferring their age of majority as to marriage tili twenty-fix, is impolitic and dangerous, as it may tend to drive (hem into a diforderly courfe... | |
| 1782 - 434 pągines
...kingdom, of which by the law they are at that age capable ? Befides, the deferring their age of minority as to marriage till twenty-fix, is impolitic and dangerous, as it may tend to drive them into a diforderly courfe of life, which ought the more to be guarded againlt in... | |
| 1800 - 576 pągines
...conceive but they may be as capable of chufing a wife at the age of twenty-one, as of being entrufted with the regency of the kingdom, of which by law they are at that age capable. We of fo many fubjecb, perhaps difP«rfed among the various ranks of twenty-fix, is impolitic and dangerous,... | |
| 1809 - 574 pągines
...conceive but they may be as capable of chufing a wife at the age of twenty-one, as of being entruued with the regency of the kingdom of which by law they are at that age capable. We alfoconceivethatthedeferring their age of majoritv as to marriage till twenty-fix, is impolitic and... | |
| Sir John Joseph Dillon - 1811 - 214 pągines
...being entrusted with the regency of the kingdom, of which by law they are at that age capable: we also conceive that the deferring their age of majority as to marriage till twenty- six, is impolitic and dangerous, as it may tend to drive tfiem into a disorderly course of... | |
| William Cobbett - 1813 - 716 pągines
...cannot conceive but they may be as capable of chusing a wife at the age of 21 as of being entrusted with the regency of the kingdom, -of which by law they are, at that age, capable. We also conceive, that the deferring their age of majority, as to marriage, till 26, is impolitic and... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - 1875 - 592 pągines
...but they may be as capable of choosing a wife at the age of twenty-one, as of being entrusted with the regency of the Kingdom, of which, by law, they are at that age capable. We also conceive that the deferring their age of majority as to marriage till twenty-six, is impolitic... | |
| Frederick Pollock - 1922 - 538 pągines
...that they may be as capable of marrying a wife at the age of twenty-one as of being entrusted with the Regency of the Kingdom, of which by law they are at that age capable. We also conceive that deferring their age of majority as to marriage till twenty-six is impolitic as dangerous.... | |
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