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An essay on the law of celibacy imposed on the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church, and observed in all the religious orders abroad; in which are delineated its rise, and progress from the most early ages of its existence, down to the present times; and the impropriety of this ecclesiastical constitution is shewn, whether it be considered in a moral, a physical, or a political light: as also, a summary account is given of the origin of the monastic life; of the prejudices which chiefly contributed to introduce it, and in what manner these have been perpetuated; &c. Interspersed with various remarks upon several other observances of the Roman Catholic Discipline.

Gandhi - medicine, diet, sex and their influence on nationalism.

32 unnumbered pages : black and white illustrations ; 18 x 25 cm

Heavy periods / Fanny Tribble.

Reflections on the clergy of the established church.

An essay on celibacy.

A philosophical, historical, and moral essay on old maids. By a friend to the sisterhood. In three volumes. ...

<p>Tuccia, a Vestal virgin in BC 145, was accused of unchastity, but proved her innocence by miraculously carrying water in a sieve (Pliny, Natural history 28: 12)</p>
<p>The Vestal virgin in Reynolds's depiction was identified in the press as a portrait of Mrs Seaforth (also called Rebecca Lyne), described by Mannings, loc. cit., as the "child bride" of the wealthy East India Company official Richard Barwell (1741-1804): she was fifteen when she married Barwell who was then aged forty-seven. However, this is corrected by the Oxford DNB entry on Barwell and by Mannings on a separate portrait of the same woman and her daughter (Mannings p. 408 no. 1595). Barwell married as his second wife on 24 June 1785 Catherine (1769-1847), the daughter of Nathaniel Coffin from Boston, Massachusetts, and his wife, Elizabeth. Mrs Seaforth (Rebecca Lyne, who took the name of Seaforth) was the mistress of Barwell by whom she had three girls and a boy (Mannings p. 408 no. 1595). Fuseli saw the figure of the Vestal in this picture as anything but chaste, and deduced "The whole is an irony ... it ridicules what it pretends to celebrate" (quoted by Mannings, loc. cit.; cf. Calè loc. cit.)</p>

1 print : stipple engraving ; platemark 52.4 x 40 cm

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The Vestal virgin Tuccia being inspected while carrying water in a sieve to prove her chastity. Etching by P.W. Tomkins,1798, after Sir J. Reynolds.

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