Old And Sold Antiques Auciton

Thousands of articles from the past.

Adultery And Jealousy - (Found June 29, 2008 )

DESIRE for variety is, of course, not the only cause of adultery. A married man or woman may for some other reason prefer sexual intercourse with an outsider to connubial intercourse, or may be guilty of unfaithfulness on account of long absence from the spouse or in a case of intoxication.
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Vegetables And Fruits - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Most of the vegetables and fruits commonly raised in this country were not native to it. In fact, only a few of them were native to the New World.
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Sugar - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Sugar is one of the most valuable products derived from the vegetable world. It is essential to the life of plants, many of which have food reserves stored away in the form of starch, which, after being converted into sugar, is used by the plants themselves.
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Cotton - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Cotton, except one or two types, is not native to the New World, but the early discoverers and explorers found the Indians engaged in raising cotton from New Mexico to Brazil, north and south, and from the West Indies to Peru, east and west.
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Cattle - (Found June 29, 2008 )

In our modern civilization the most important domestic animals are cattle, horses, sheep, swine, and goats. These were all domesticated ages ago, and the form in which we know them is quite altered from that shown by their ancestors when first they became attached to man's service.
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The Meaning And Origin Of Marriage - (Found June 29, 2008 )

In the ordinary sense of the term, marriage is a social institution which may be defined as a relation of one or more men to one or more women that is recognised by custom or law.
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Divorce - (Found June 29, 2008 )

The extremes in this respect are on the one hand the total prohibition of divorce in countries following the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, and on the other hand the provision of the Soviet law which recognises even the desire of one of the parties as an unconditional ground of divorce.
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The Essential Elements In Marriage - (Found June 29, 2008 )

THERE are three essential elements in every normal marriage: the gratification of the sexual impulse, the relation between husband and wife apart from it, and procreation.
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Matrimonial Unhappiness - Sexual Maladjustment - (Found June 29, 2008 )

THOSE who have tried to estimate the comparative prevalence of unhappiness in modern marriages have come to very different conclusions.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/marriage-3.shtml

Life In A Mexican Pueblo - (Found June 29, 2008 )

I had taken train at Boston and journeyed to the Mexican border with the usual railway train environment. Bob's society had added a piquant element, and his savoir faire in Mexico had made the transition easy for me.
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