# Literary studies, volume 1 (of 2)

Author: Bagehot, Walter, 1826-1877; Hutton, Richard Holt, 1826-1897 [Editor]

Genre: English literature -- History and criticism

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78449

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Literary+studies%2C+volume+1+%28of+2%29+Bagehot&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

of due consideration towards nature, that cannot be resisted, a law consenting with the wisest men and civilest nations; that when a man hath married a wife, if it come to pass that he cannot love her by reason of some displeasing natural quality or unfitness in her, let him write her a bill of divorce. The intent of which law undoubtedly was this, that if any good and peaceable man should discover some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body, whereby he could not cheerfully perform the duty of a husband without the perpetual dissembling of offence and disturbance to his spirit; rather than to live uncomfortably and unhappily both to himself and to his wife; rather than t...

## Chapters

- [xxx. 21, 23, testifies to be a good and a necessary law, by granting](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/literary-studies-volume-1-of-2-78449/chapters/2/index.md)
- [LETTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/literary-studies-volume-1-of-2-78449/chapters/9/index.md)
- [LETTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/literary-studies-volume-1-of-2-78449/chapters/4/index.md)
- [LETTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/literary-studies-volume-1-of-2-78449/chapters/5/index.md)
- [LETTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/literary-studies-volume-1-of-2-78449/chapters/6/index.md)
- [LETTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/literary-studies-volume-1-of-2-78449/chapters/7/index.md)
- [LETTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/literary-studies-volume-1-of-2-78449/chapters/8/index.md)
- [LETTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/literary-studies-volume-1-of-2-78449/chapters/3/index.md)
- [xxiv. 1, established a grave and prudent law, full of moral equity, full](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/literary-studies-volume-1-of-2-78449/chapters/1/index.md)