A second marriage, although perfectly lawful and in some cases advisable, was so far a sign of weakness; and a double family would in many cases be a serious hindrance to work.
Athenagoras goes so far as to call a second marriage "respectable adultery," and to say that one who thus severs himself from his dead wife is an "adulterer in disguise.
The belief that St. Paul was opposed to the ordination of persons who had contracted a second marriage is reasonable in itself.
During the course of the year 1846, he questioned Victorin Hulot about the remarkable second marriage of Baron Hector Hulot d'Ervy, which was solemnized on the first of February of that year.
A second marriage appeared to her, as to many women, a sort of atheism; a giving up of the religion of the immortal.
I don't think seven years is a sacred period that would justify a second marriage.
November, 1656, there took place an event of no less consequence to the household in Petty France than Milton's second marriage, after four years of widowerhood.
By a statute of 1863 a second marriage is valid when the first spouse has been five years absent; and such spouse is to be presumed dead in any question of alimony arising under the second marriage.
Again, there can be no doubt that Holy Scripture, although permitting a second marriage, does so on account of the hardness of our hearts.
Perhaps no more faithful and graphic presentation of the diplomacy that is employed in compassing a second marriage can be given than is found in the proceedings of Perthes.
With regard to the question of Captain Cheffington's second marriage, Mrs. Dobbs declared herself utterly in the dark.
The remembrance of that interview was a thorn in the flesh of Martin Bransby, and it left in Theodore's mind increased resentment against his father's second marriage.
He was not without affection for his father; although it had been much weakened by Mr. Bransby's second marriage.
It was not till long after the dinner-party at Marchmont Towers that these ideas resolved themselves into any positive form, and that John began to think that for his daughter's sake he might be led to contemplate a second marriage.
In the case of a second marriage, the amount is double.
The next day, the whole of the party set off for the bride's house, where the marala pendli, or second marriage, is performed.
But because cold is easier to bear than heat, I am resolved to remain in my present quality and to abstain from a second marriage.
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