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A marriage of sorts is arranged between Dido and Aeneas at the instigation of Juno, who was told of the fact that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans ' descendants, and Aeneas's mother Venus ( the Roman adaptation of Aphrodite ), who realizes that her son and his company need a temporary reprieve to reinforce themselves for the journey to come.
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marriage and sorts
In 1768 he went through a marriage of sorts to Thérèse ( marriages between Catholics and Protestants were illegal ), whom he had always hitherto referred to as his " housekeeper ".
This excerpt also suggests that the relationship between sexual and marriage practices is complex, and that societies distinguish between different sorts of prohibitions.
He put on all sorts of mystical events — e. g., the celebration of his marriage as the “ One Without End ” ( the Ein Sof ) with the Torah, preparing a solemn festival to which he invited his friends.
The formal approach is seen as a somewhat basic " no frills " or " narrow " approach to equality of opportunity, a minimal standard of sorts, limited to the public sphere as opposed to private areas such as the family, marriage, or religion.
Her decision to use God as a defense of sorts for her promiscuity is significant, as it shows how the Bible is another source that Alisoun draws upon, although her interpretations of Scripture, such as Paul on marriage ( III.
Christianity recognised marriage of sorts among slaves, freeing slaves was regarded as an act of charity, and when slaves were buried in Christian cemeteries, the grave seldom included any indication that the person buried had been a slave.
Aurora, after hearing Marian ’ s dreadful story, apologizes profusely to her for misjudging her and offers her a ‘ marriage ’ of sorts – she will protect Marian and her son and take them to Italy with her.
marriage and is
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
It is therefore not surprising that they resist the lure of marriage and the trap of domesticity, for like cats they are determined not to tame their sexual energy.
I wanted to grab her by the arm and beg her to wait, to consider, to know for certain because life is so long and marriage is so important.
It is not a medieval mental quirk or an attitude `` unnourished by sense '' to believe that husbands and wives should not be subjected to such a risk, or that such a possibility should not be permitted to endanger the confidentiality of the marriage relationship.
While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.
One of these is the solidarity and the confidential relationship of marriage.
He is confronted with the recurrent crises, such as great natural catastrophes and the great transitions of life -- marriage, incurable disease, widowhood, old age, the certainty of death.
Thus, the writer decided to hold one experimental section of the functional preparation for marriage course in the spring semester of 1960 exclusively for persons already married -- that is, prerequisite: `` marriage ''.
One might digress at this point and speculate that if it is `` wise '' to create special sections for special status, then why not a special section for women pregnant before marriage, and one for 44-year-old men with teenage children, and so on.
But few who have experienced marriage can dispute the fact that the focus of interpersonal relationships is different in marriage than in a pre-marital situation.
If the early approaches are wise, understanding and patient, the satisfactions of marital fulfillment will probably be discovered before the marriage is much older.
In tradition and in poetry, the marriage bed is a place of unity and harmony.
In a growing number of American homes, marriage counselors report, the wife is taking a commanding role in sexual relationships.
`` It reflects what is going on in other areas of the marriage and in society itself.
More typical is the case of a suburban Long Island housewife described by a marriage counselor.
The wife is likely to be young, sophisticated, smart as a whip -- often a girl who has sacrificed a promising career for marriage.
Other experts say, however, that if sexual domination by one or the other partner exists for longer than a brief period, it is likely to shake the marriage.
Denouncing the view that the sexual union is an end in itself, the Conference declared: `` We steadfastly uphold what must always be regarded as the governing considerations of Christian marriage.
One is the primary purpose for which marriage exists, namely, the continuance of the race through the gift and heritage of children ; ;
Another marriage of note is that of Jane McAlester and William Louis Pfau.
The explanation offered for her conduct is a misguided attempt to save her marriage to a neurotic husband left sterile as a result of an automobile accident.
marriage and arranged
After her thirteenth birthday in 28, Tiberius arranged for Agrippina to marry her paternal second cousin Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and ordered the marriage to be celebrated in Rome.
When Claudius decided to marry her, he persuaded a group of senators that the marriage should be arranged in the public interest.
The marriage had been arranged by her father Alfonso VI of León in 1106 to unite the two chief Christian states against the Almoravides, and to supply them with a capable military leader.
During his lifetime a dynastic marriage with Princess Eleanor of England, daughter of King Edward I of England, was arranged.
On the way home, he negotiated with King Levon I of Armenia, the Emperor Theodore I Laskaris of Nicaea and Tsar Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and arranged several marriage contracts between his children and the courts he visited.
There King Andrew II arranged a marriage between his son, Andrew, and Levon's daughter, Isabelle.
He therefore arranged a discreet marriage in Mexico on 24 November 1924.
Jen, destined for an arranged marriage and yearning for adventure, seems envious of Shu Lien's warrior lifestyle.
Lo came to Peking to persuade Jen not to go through with her arranged marriage.
In an arranged marriage, Chiang was married to a fellow villager named Mao Fumei.
Her parents ' marriage had been arranged by Dangereuse with her paternal grandfather, the Troubadour.
Nineteen-year-old Fauziya Kasinga, a member of the Tchamba-Kunsuntu tribe of Togo, was granted asylum in 1996 after leaving an arranged marriage to escape FGM, setting a precedent in U. S. immigration law because FGM was for the first time accepted as a form of persecution.
Upon the death of the Queen ( Maria Luisa of Savoy ), Alberoni in concert with La Trémoille arranged for a marriage in 1714 between the widowed King and Elisabetta Farnese, daughter of the Duke of Parma.
Bernini himself would not marry until May 1639, at age forty-one, when he wed a twenty-two year old Roman girl, Caterina Tezio, an arranged marriage that bore him eleven children.
Géza's marriage with Sarolt, the daughter of Gyula of Transylvania, was arranged by his father.
Géza arranged the marriage of his son Stephen I of Hungary to Giselle of Bavaria, the daughter of Henry II.
Abbot Suger arranged the 1137 marriage between Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine in Bordeaux, which made Louis VII Duke of Aquitaine and gave him considerable power.
Allowing Gilbert to remain in power as duke, Henry arranged the marriage of his daughter Gerberga to his new vassal in 928.
As a part of his deals Hasdrubal arranged the marriage between Hannibal and an Iberian princess named Imilce.
Baldwin and his advisors recognised that it was essential for Sibylla to be married to a Western nobleman in order to access support from Europe in a military crisis ; while Raymond was still regent, a marriage was arranged for Sibylla and William of Montferrat, a cousin of Louis VII of France and of Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor.
After the death of her second husband, Lucrezia's father, Pope Alexander VI, arranged a third marriage.
In May 1883, the 13-year-old Mohandas was married to 14-year-old Kasturbai Makhanji ( her first name was usually shortened to " Kasturba ", and affectionately to " Ba ") in an arranged child marriage, according to the custom of the region.
They never lived together and Mao refused to recognise her as his wife, becoming a fierce critic of arranged marriage.
Several of these articles advocated his staunchly feminist views, calling for the liberation of women in Chinese society ; alongside his early experiences with forced arranged marriage, this was possibly influenced by the recent death of his mother and his increasing romantic involvement with Yang Kaihui ( 1901 – 1930 ), the daughter of Mao's recently deceased mentor Yang Changji.
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