Family
‹ 11 · Outline
12.Household, property and inheritance
12a.The household, its order and its servants
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 20Old nurse tends Telemachus with affection; Laertes shunned his wife's wrath.read · scan
- p. 43Nestor's sons, sons-in-law and wife attend him; Peisistratus alone remains unwed.read · scan
- p. 44–45Nestor's household, sons, daughters and wife, take part in the rite and in hospitality to Telemachus.read · scan
- p. 81Nausicaa is introduced washing the clothes of her father, mother and brothers.read · scan
- p. 105Alcinous imagines Odysseus recalling Phaeacian deeds at supper with wife and children.read · scan
- p. 109–110Queen Arete and Alcinous's sons take part in preparing the guest's gifts.read · scan
- p. 202–203Telemachus worries about his household and goods left unwatched while he seeks his father.read · scan
- p. 257–258Father and son act together; the nurse urges Telemachus to mind the house and guard its wealth.read · scan
- p. 308–309Household women and nurse greet the returned master with embraces and tears; Eurycleia cares for his clothing.read · scan
- p. 329–330Dolius and his sons welcome Odysseus home, and the household feasts together.read · scan
Confucius, The Sayings of ConfuciusVol. 44
- p. 61Ties of old and young are binding, yet the old man's hospitality shows household life.read · scan
Aesop, FablesVol. 17
- p. 29Nurse and child in the household, with a careless threat.read · scan
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 222–224God sets the solitary in families and is father of the fatherless.read · scan
Buddhist WritingsVol. 45
- p. 639–640Ananda presents the Mallas to the Buddha by families, with wives and children, to pay reverence in time.read · scan
- p. 765–766Visakha treats townspeople as relatives; the treasurer declines to expel her because of her powerful family.read · scan
- p. 766–767Quarrel between daughter-in-law and father-in-law; she asserts a daughter with living parents is not easily turned out.read · scan
- p. 768–769Father's admonitions explained: do not carry family faults or neighbors' gossip across households; discretion protects domestic peace.read · scan
Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old AgeVol. 9
- p. 57Appius, though old and blind, commanded his sons, daughters, slaves and clients through a vigorous mind.read · scan
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letters of CiceroVol. 9
- p. 105–107He entrusts house negotiations to his daughter Tullia and welcomes a friend living with him in his household.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 270–282Housewives keep the nuptial bed uncorrupted and earn their children's bread.read · scan
- p. 406Lavinia and the household mourn the queen's death together.read · scan
Luke, The Acts of the ApostlesVol. 44
- p. 443–444Cornelius fears God with all his house.read · scan
- p. 457–458Timothy's mixed parentage; Lydia is baptized with her household.read · scan
- p. 458Salvation is promised to the jailor and his house; all his household believe and are baptized.read · scan
Plutarch, PericlesVol. 12
- p. 52–54His children and household women resented his stingy, exact housekeeping run by the servant Evangelus.read · scan
Plutarch, CaesarVol. 12
- p. 270Aurelia guards her son's wife; the household is put under the wife's care during the festival.read · scan
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 171Inward freedom creates love within the house.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 246–248Pliny can use his wife's mother's purse as his own.read · scan
- p. 266–272Pliny's household has lost none of its members at the villa.read · scan
- p. 319–325Sickness in his household carries off servants, and he grieves as for his own.read · scan
- p. 354He takes his supper with his wife and walks with his household in the evening.read · scan
- p. 367Emperor's favour to the mother-in-law's request is said to extend graciously through Pliny's whole family.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 893–894Believers' seed is united with them in paradise; they recall having lived among families in fear.read · scan
- p. 938–939The righteous enter Eden with their fathers, wives and offspring.read · scan
- p. 987–988Rules for the prophet's wives: seclusion, modest speech, punishment for fornication, and the story of keeping a wife.read · scan
- p. 990–991Rules on the prophet's wives: modesty, curtain, forbidden remarriage, and which kin may see them unveiled.read · scan
- p. 991–992Prophet's wives and daughters are told to wear outer wrappers for protection.read · scan
BeowulfVol. 49
- p. 55–57Hygelac's household and queen Hygd are introduced, contrasted with Thryth's cruelty.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 16The merchant settles his affairs, appoints a guardian for his children and takes leave of wife and kin amid lamentation.read · scan
- p. 196A father warns his purchased slave to hide from his rake of a son; household of wife, son and slaves.read · scan
- p. 435–436She acts to save her master and his family.read · scan
- p. 437–438Ali Baba's son introduces his father to the supposed merchant friend; the household is entered through kinship ties.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, ParadiseVol. 20
- p. 350–352Old Florentine household life: wives at spindle, lulling cradles, telling tales; Cacciaguida's birth, baptism, marriageread · scan
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales; The Nun's Priest's TaleVol. 40
- p. 34Cock and hens as household mates, the hens his sisters and paramours.read · scan
Sir Thomas More, UtopiaVol. 36
- p. 171–172Each farm household of forty persons is ruled by a sage master and mistress.read · scan
- p. 179–183The city consists of families ruled by the eldest; wives go to husbands' houses, and family size is regulated.read · scan
- p. 192–194Children mock the ambassadors' pearls, and mothers answer in earnest that they are the ambassadors' fools.read · scan
- p. 232Wives and children kneel before husbands and parents to confess offences and seek pardon; households sit together under the authority of the head.read · scan
Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German NationVol. 36
- p. 332Usury brings destruction to a man and his family, which has entered the house.read · scan
William Roper, The Life of Sir Thomas MoreVol. 36
- p. 89Roper is More's son-in-law and lived in his house sixteen years.read · scan
- p. 90–91More's household at Bucklesbury with his wife and three daughters.read · scan
- p. 91More longs for the company of his wife and children, kept from home by court.read · scan
- p. 103Wife and daughter notice the hair shirt; bishops propose giving the money to his family.read · scan
- p. 103More consults his children on how to live together cheerfully after his fall in fortune.read · scan
- p. 103He wishes the household to stay together merrily through poverty.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 396–397The Duke's young sons play with Cellini and tease him while he works, amusing Duke and Duchess.read · scan
William Harrison, A Description of Elizabethan EnglandVol. 35
- p. 282Harrison's wife and her maidservants brew the household's beer once a month.read · scan
- p. 283The wife directs brewing for the household with her maidservants.read · scan
- p. 283Brewing is done for the household by wife and maids.read · scan
Miguel de Cervantes, The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part IVol. 14
- p. 17Household described: a woman-servant, a niece under twenty, and a man servant.read · scan
- p. 45Niece and housekeeper lament the master's raving and their failure to warn friends earlier.read · scan
- p. 55–57Sancho leaves wife and children to follow Quixote; the niece urges her uncle to stay home in peace.read · scan
- p. 153Sancho recalls leaving wife and children to serve Don Quixote.read · scan
- p. 189Sancho calls the ass the sport of his children and the comfort of his wife.read · scan
- p. 208–209Sancho longs to return to his wife and children, where he may speak as he pleases.read · scan
- p. 214Sancho hopes to see wife and children again.read · scan
- p. 218A warrant is to be honoured by Don Quixote's niece to deliver Sancho his colts.read · scan
- p. 255–257She lives sheltered in her father's house, accompanied to mass by her mother and maids.read · scan
- p. 304–305Sancho considers abandoning his master and returning to wife, children and accustomed labour.read · scan
- p. 425The judge's daughter joins the ladies for the night's lodging.read · scan
- p. 511Sancho's wife Joan and Quixote's niece and housekeeper lament, greet their men, and ask what the squireship has earned the household.read · scan
- p. 511–512The niece and housekeeper tend Quixote and curse the chivalry books that lured him away.read · scan
Izaak Walton, The Life of Mr. George HerbertVol. 15
- p. 388–389Herbert praises his mother for ordering her family and bringing up her children well.read · scan
- p. 404–405He leads his wife, nieces and household in daily prayer, like Joshua bringing his household to serve the Lord.read · scan
- p. 410–411His household of about thirty is likened to a little college.read · scan
- p. 411The household of kindred and chosen members is formed into a devout life.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 180Adam calls Eve to help entertain the guest.read · scan
Molière, Tartuffe, or The HypocriteVol. 26
- p. 199–201Madame Pernelle scolds her son's household: children, daughter-in-law, and servant, invoking the dead mother's example.read · scan
- p. 201–202Damis and the household resent Tartuffe's rule over the family.read · scan
- p. 204–206Mother-in-law lectures daughter-in-law and household, praising son's choice of Tartuffe.read · scan
- p. 253–255Damis wants to expose Tartuffe to his father, citing the trouble he has caused the family and his sister's thwarted love.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 86–87Holiness should extend to family, suppressing sin in the household.read · scan
John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning EducationVol. 37
- p. 103–104Children of gentlemen's families and their servants: household relations shape humane character.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 328Family happiness requires discipline, each knowing his duty, beginning and ending with God.read · scan
- p. 340–341Household order: children not to domineer servants, nor be indulged unseemly; children are heirs to the house.read · scan
- p. 349–350Little men have privacy and leisure for family comforts, the greatest worldly contents.read · scan
William Penn, More Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 394–395Members of a household should not be called servants but brethren.read · scan
Thomas Gray, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 443–445The dead will no more know the hearth, housewife and children running to greet their father.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 246–247He reminds mothers of dangers husbands and sons face at sea and counsels simple household living.read · scan
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsVol. 10
- p. 206–207Ancient coarse manufacture was a household work performed by the members of each family.read · scan
Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to ConquerVol. 18
- p. 247–248Hardcastle asserts mastery of his house and orders the guest out.read · scan
Oliver Goldsmith, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 509–520Hospitable family circle and the brother far away; the wanderer's heart turns homeward with a lengthening chain.read · scan
- p. 524–525The peasant returns to his fireside, children and wife, monarch of his shed.read · scan
- p. 531Domestic joy glides smoothly regardless of politics.read · scan
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm, or The Soldier's FortuneVol. 26
- p. 316–318Franziska gives her background: miller's daughter, raised and educated with her mistress.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Tragedy of Faust, Part IVol. 19
- p. 116–118Faust imagines her childhood, her grandsire's chair and household order shaped by a mother's voice.read · scan
- p. 121–124Martha laments her absent husband; Gretchen must hide gifts from her mother.read · scan
- p. 135–137Margaret describes household duties, her mother's exactness, her dead father and sister, and lovingly rearing the baby sister.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann and DorotheaVol. 19
- p. 337–338Domestic exchange between the innkeeper and his prudent wife over the household linen, their son and carriage.read · scan
- p. 387–389He describes living happily with affectionate parents, an only son managing the farm and estates.read · scan
- p. 389–390Hermann's mother needs a maid to take the daughter's place; Dorothea accepts service in a good household.read · scan
- p. 390–391Women serve brother, parents, and infants as mothers, living for others in the household.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 212–213Patron does his part as master, landlord, husband, fatherread · scan
Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 562–563The Laird seeks a wife to keep his house; marriage as social arrangement, the lady penniless but well-born.read · scan
William Wordsworth, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 615–617Michael, his wife and only son Luke form a close household, their light a public symbol of thrift.read · scan
- p. 656–658His master-bias is toward homefelt pleasures and gentle scenes; he has much to love.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 87–88Servant served two generations of the family; the father was a very different man from the son.read · scan
- p. 161–162The old nurse chatters of the young Prince's temper and the household's bustle, and Gertrude fears her brother's impatience.read · scan
- p. 191–194A mother snaps at her child for dropping loaves while the father placates; family plunder scene.read · scan
- p. 390The tailor's household of wife, children and husband welcomes Lucia; the tailor is good-tempered and approving of his wife's charity.read · scan
- p. 391Husband, wife and prattling children share dinner and make the guest welcome.read · scan
- p. 443Donna Prassede meddles in her household and her five daughters' convents and marriages, resisted by husbands and abbesses.read · scan
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Household TalesVol. 17
- p. 214–215Daughters keep house diligently for their mother; evenings by the hearth with reading aloud and spinning show a warm household.read · scan
- p. 218The sisters marry the prince and his brother; the mother lives happily with her children.read · scan
Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter ScottVol. 25
- p. 434–435His daughter Anne teases him affectionately; family cheer and household banter around the hunting party.read · scan
- p. 436Lockhart recalls happiest summers near Abbotsford, though the household suffered strain from constant guests.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Man the ReformerVol. 5
- p. 55–56Household peace is poisoned by alienation between mistresses and domestics.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, MannersVol. 5
- p. 214–215Men rule outdoors but yield the sceptre at the door of the house; women shape the household's tone.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, English TraitsVol. 5
- p. 348Saxon is domestic, affectionate, fitted for marriage and the nurture of children.read · scan
- p. 369The Englishman loves his house, adorning it, a museum of heirlooms and family trophies across generations.read · scan
- p. 462A cultivated person surrounded by a happy home, with honor, love, obedience and friends, is of all institutions the best.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 238–239A widowed Sea-king lives with his mother, who dotes on her granddaughters, the little Sea-princesses.read · scan
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1301Benedict, the aged widowed father, lives with his daughter Evangeline who directs his household; heirloom earrings pass from mother to child.read · scan
- p. 1302–1303Friends' children grow up together like brother and sister; Evangeline governs her father's household.read · scan
- p. 1313–1314Evangeline waits at her father's door with the table set; the empty house haunted by loss of household.read · scan
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the BeagleVol. 29
- p. 51Women sit apart from men at supper; guest taken into the household; Dutch ask about kin.read · scan
- p. 78Family groups of mother and daughters riding together; women's duties as household labourers.read · scan
- p. 430–431A merry Christmas gathering of missionary children and household; the missionaries' children act as intermediaries with natives.read · scan
- p. 446–447Convict servants corrupt household comforts; children learn vile expressions and ideas from them.read · scan
- p. 448Settlers' sons serve young but associate with convict servants, so society deteriorates.read · scan
William Makepeace Thackeray, Jonathan SwiftVol. 28
- p. 13–14Household veneration of Temple; his wife and sister mourn his illness.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 364–365Character witnesses praise the captain as good father, husband and son, and his dependents are pleaded in mitigation.read · scan
- p. 365–366Counsel argues punishing the captain would take bread from wife, children or infirm parent.read · scan
- p. 367Captains' and sailors' dependents, wives, children and parents, are the basis of the appeals for leniency.read · scan
- p. 367–368The claims of the wife and family are invariably invoked to soften the master's sentence.read · scan
John Ruskin, Sesame and LiliesVol. 28
- p. 121Family clings to their home together rather than enter the workhouse.read · scan
- p. 145Home is the place of peace, sacred hearth sheltered from the outer world by husband and wife.read · scan
- p. 146Home exists wherever a true wife is; her sheltering influence extends to the homeless.read · scan
- p. 158–159Women are queens to lovers, husbands and sons; household dominion of feeding, clothing, directing and teaching.read · scan
Matthew Arnold, The Study of PoetryVol. 28
- p. 85–86A happy fireside for wife and children is called the true pathos and sublime of human life.read · scan
Frank Aretas Haskell, The Battle of GettysburgVol. 43
- p. 410Women and children return to desecrated homes, preferring them to wandering in the fields.read · scan
12b.Inheritance, wills and the division of estates
See also: Wealth 8d
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 13Telemachus laments his absent father, whose wealth the wooers consume, and asks the stranger's kin and origin.read · scan
- p. 18–19Inheritance of house and thralls from his father.read · scan
- p. 63Wooers waste Telemachus's substance and plot to murder him.read · scan
- p. 92–94Odysseus wishes each host may leave substance and honours to his children after him.read · scan
- p. 190Concern for Odysseus's wife, son and father Laertes; wooers threaten to end the household's line.read · scan
- p. 191Bastard son of a wealthy man; legitimate brothers divide the inheritance by lot and give him little.read · scan
- p. 217–218Telemachus explains the house has a single heir in each generation, leaving him alone; wooers court his mother and waste the estate.read · scan
- p. 224Wooers plot to kill Telemachus, seize his inheritance and marry off his mother, threatening the household of Odysseus.read · scan
- p. 230Penelope's tearful bed of groaning since Odysseus left; concern over inheritance.read · scan
- p. 279–280Telemachus asserts his claim to his father's house.read · scan
- p. 284Penelope fetches her absent husband's bow, an heirloom passed from Eurytus to Iphitus to Odysseus, and a token of guest-friendship.read · scan
The Book of JobVol. 44
- p. 140–141Job's restored fortune includes seven sons and three daughters, inheritance for daughters, and four generations.read · scan
Ecclesiastes; or, The PreacherVol. 44
- p. 337Inheritance passes to a successor who did not labor for it.read · scan
Luke, The Gospel According to LukeVol. 44
- p. 387–388A man asks Jesus to make his brother divide the inheritance.read · scan
Plutarch, CoriolanusVol. 12
- p. 152–154Soldiers name heirs in unwritten wills before battle.read · scan
Plutarch, AntonyVol. 12
- p. 332–333Young Caesar's claim as heir and executor of his father's testament.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 299–301A mother who lost her son suspects his co-heirs.read · scan
- p. 303Inherited parental land is withheld from sale; co-heirs and family ties matter.read · scan
- p. 309Quadratilla's will divides her estate between grandchildren; the grandson lives dutifully with his grandmother.read · scan
- p. 309–310Quadratilla honours her grandson through her bequest; Quadratus will restore an old house's glory.read · scan
- p. 327Tullus's will, adoption of a niece, legacies to grandchildren and inheritance disputes among brothers and relatives.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 967–968Mankind created from one soul and its mate; rules on marriage, dowries, orphans' guardianship and inheritance among kin.read · scan
- p. 968–969Detailed shares of inheritance among children, parents, siblings and spouses, ordained by God.read · scan
- p. 984Inheritance rules: a sister's share when a man dies childless, and shares of brothers and sisters.read · scan
BeowulfVol. 49
- p. 74–76Kinship ties and inherited heirloom arms pass from Weohstan to his son; kinship true cannot be marred in a noble mind.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 120The broker succeeds to his dead father's business.read · scan
- p. 122The young man tells of his father, a chief of Baghdad, whose death freed him to travel as a merchant.read · scan
- p. 131–132Marriage and inheritance: her houses, lands and wealth pass to her husband after her death.read · scan
- p. 150A merchant's only son inherits wealth and servants at his father's death; the beloved is identified as the Kadi's daughter.read · scan
- p. 160–162The tailor divides his property among his family and appoints a guardian over them before fleeing abroad.read · scan
- p. 177The father's death leaves a hundred pieces each; he plans marriage to the Wezir's daughter, taking her by force if refused.read · scan
- p. 234–235His merchant father dies while he is a child, leaving him property and inheritance.read · scan
- p. 424–425Two brothers divide their father's inheritance; one marries wealth, the other poverty.read · scan
- p. 441Ali Baba teaches his son the cave's secret, handed down to posterity.read · scan
Songs from the Elder EddaVol. 49
- p. 433–436Her father's death, division of the heritage, marriage arrangements, and Atli's refusal of Giuki's gifts.read · scan
The Song of RolandVol. 49
- p. 104–106Ganelon commends his wife and son Baldwin to Karl and leaves him his fiefs, expecting not to return.read · scan
Sir Thomas More, UtopiaVol. 36
- p. 139–140Raphael has already divided his patrimony among friends and kinsfolk and owes them nothing further.read · scan
William Roper, The Life of Sir Thomas MoreVol. 36
- p. 114More arranges his lands for his wife, son's wife, and daughter's household; the forfeiture hurts his family.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 167Cellini leaves money to his poor sister; her husband comes from Florence for the inheritance.read · scan
William Harrison, A Description of Elizabethan EnglandVol. 35
- p. 367Felons stay mute to save their goods from confiscation for their wives and children.read · scan
Miguel de Cervantes, The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part IVol. 14
- p. 382The Captive introduces his lineage, a father with three sons whose liberal nature threatens his sons' inheritance.read · scan
- p. 382A father divides his estate among three sons out of fatherly love, keeping a fourth part for himself.read · scan
Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and MoralVol. 3
- p. 89–91Great estates left to a young heir attract predators; moderate portions to kindred prosper best.read · scan
Nathaniel Ward, The Body of LibertiesVol. 43
- p. 67–68Lands freed from feudal exactions on the death of parents; persons over twenty-one may make wills.read · scan
- p. 76–78Protects widows' portions, wives from bodily correction, and rules inheritance among sons and daughters of intestate parents.read · scan
Izaak Walton, The Life of Dr. John DonneVol. 15
- p. 347–348He forgives Sir George More the contracted sum and provides for his children.read · scan
- p. 349–350He provides for his children and his charitable mother, dividing his little estate among eight.read · scan
- p. 357–358Donne's will makes his children's portions equal, as an impartial father, and remembers kin and friends.read · scan
- p. 359–361He hopes his children will receive the remainder gratefully and acknowledge the Giver.read · scan
Love Will Find Out the Way; Phillada Flouts MeVol. 40
- p. 379–381The suitor boasts he is his mother's joy and will inherit her poultry and bees.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 237Jacob blesses his twelve sons and assigns future destinies by family.read · scan
- p. 237Father blesses grandchildren, preferring the younger, and apportions inheritance among his sons.read · scan
Benjamin Franklin, His AutobiographyVol. 1
- p. 93The widow reared her children and established her son in the business, enriching the family.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 192Concern over wills bequeathing slaves among children, whose fitness to exercise such power is uncertain.read · scan
- p. 193Wills disposing of property and slaves among children and heirs.read · scan
- p. 211–212Inheritance to successors is blessed if honestly collected.read · scan
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsVol. 10
- p. 505Roman inheritance tax exempted the nearest relations and the poor.read · scan
- p. 506Dutch succession taxes graded by degree of kinship; taxing children's inheritance from a father would be cruel since his death usually reduces their income.read · scan
- p. 506–507Heirs and minors owed duties to the superior; long minority wasted rather than freed estates.read · scan
Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to ConquerVol. 18
- p. 211–212Tony bristles at his stepfather-like guardian and looks to his inheritance and his father's reputation.read · scan
- p. 212–214Tony describes the Hardcastle family unflatteringly and resents his stepfather, while knowing his fortune is coming.read · scan
- p. 237–239Aunt, nephew and niece contend over guardianship of the niece's property.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 161Rules of inheritance and heirs per capita or per stirpes; the inheritable principle survives through generations.read · scan
- p. 196Men have rights to parents' acquisitions and the nourishment and improvement of offspring.read · scan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for ScandalVol. 18
- p. 155–156Charles feigns concern for his uncle while bargaining on his death; inheritance expectations shape kinship.read · scan
William Wordsworth, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 620–628Loss of the family estate to a stranger after the deaths of husband and wife.read · scan
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Household TalesVol. 17
- p. 57Son's inheritance and father's palace; the dying father's charge is passed onread · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, PoliticsVol. 5
- p. 241Property passes by inheritance and patrimony to those who did not create it.read · scan
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1024–1025The men's talk of a child and inheritance, 'if it prove a girl, the boy will have plenty'.read · scan
Robert Browning, A Blot in the 'ScutcheonVol. 18
- p. 392–399Tresham mourns his ancestral grounds, the trees his fathers planted, which are now lost to him.read · scan
12c.Primogeniture and entail
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 255David's seed and God as Father to the king; dynasty inherited.read · scan
Tacitus, GermanyVol. 33
- p. 111Horses are bequeathed as inheritance, going to the boldest son rather than the eldest.read · scan
John Webster, The Duchess of MalfiVol. 47
- p. 853–854Delio proposes to establish Antonio's young son in his mother's right.read · scan
Thomas Hobbes, Of Man, Being the First Part of LeviathanVol. 34
- p. 367Arms and crests descended by inheritance to the eldest son, others with marks of difference.read · scan
Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Life Is a DreamVol. 26
- p. 23A father's decision about his son and heir, versus the claims of his sisters' children.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 102–103Primogeniture: the elder brother inherits everything because of where born.read · scan
John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning EducationVol. 37
- p. 128A mother teaches the younger son at home; birth order of heirs and younger brothers used as incentive.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality among MankindVol. 34
- p. 220–221Chiefs perpetuated offices in their families, treating magistracy as a family estate.read · scan
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsVol. 10
- p. 549Estates continuing long in the same family show feudal ancestors lived within their income.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 189–190Perpetuating property in families binds society, makes weakness serve virtue, and justifies hereditary distinction.read · scan
- p. 244Family settlements made property circulation in France difficult.read · scan
William Wordsworth, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 617–620Michael's son is his comfort and hope; he fears losing the patrimonial land and failing his family.read · scan
- p. 620Ancestral land, forefathers buried in family mould, and inheritance burdened by debt; father asks son to remember his fathers' life.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 145A prince sacrifices his younger children to the cloister to keep property whole for the eldest son, tormenting them.read · scan
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Household TalesVol. 17
- p. 156–157An aging king must decide which of his three sons inherits the kingdom, setting a contest.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, English TraitsVol. 5
- p. 402Primogeniture is the cardinal rule of English property, building great houses.read · scan
- p. 413–414Primogeniture makes but one fool in a family; fathers make children gentlemen before they are men.read · scan
John Stuart Mill, AutobiographyVol. 25
- p. 63Austin's argument against primogeniture appears in the Review.read · scan
Robert Browning, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1074–1075Sons as heirs and implied parentage.read · scan
12d.The controversy over wealth left to children
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 304He laments leaving his sons a cursed patrimony.read · scan
John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning EducationVol. 37
- p. 115–116A father's desires for his son beyond the estate he leaves him.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 342Parents are accountable for their children and should leave them virtue, not merely money.read · scan
William Penn, More Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 384A father's wisdom in teaching frugal living outweighs the wealth he leaves.read · scan
Samuel Johnson, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 503–504Inheritance from the grandsire wasted; guardian, friend and mother's counsel scorned.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 209–210Parents' pursuit of wealth endangers their children.read · scan
- p. 232Parents realize care for outward treasure for children exceeded care for their religious settlement.read · scan
- p. 232–233Parents should lay deep foundations of piety for children and not leave them riches that become snares.read · scan
- p. 234Charitable living is more likely to bring a blessing to our children than accumulated wealth.read · scan
- p. 290–291Parting from his family; providing estates for children as motive for oppression.read · scan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for ScandalVol. 18
- p. 156–157Charles sells the family plate, library and ancestors' portraits; Sir Oliver is shocked at his lack of feeling for kindred.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Man the ReformerVol. 5
- p. 48A father cannot give his son the skill and experience that made his estate.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 344Son inherits his father's fortune and wastes it; the princess is guarded by her parents.read · scan
Robert Browning, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1075–1078Addresses his sons, suspecting they will squander his villas and neglect his wishes; hints at illegitimate paternity.read · scan
12e.Disinheritance and the family name
Plutarch, PericlesVol. 12
- p. 73–74Pericles asks that his law on base-born children be suspended so his family's name may not die out without an heir.read · scan
- p. 75Athenians grant him the right to enrol his son in his fraternity under his own name.read · scan
Plutarch, AlcibiadesVol. 12
- p. 128Agis disowns Leotychides, born ten months after he left his wife, and the child is denied succession.read · scan
Plutarch, CoriolanusVol. 12
- p. 156Surnames common to a house and names from birth circumstances such as a father's absence or death.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 260–261A mother disinherits her son; heirs and inheritance shape the dispute, with Pliny defending the deceased mother's judgment.read · scan
Songs from the Elder EddaVol. 49
- p. 377–380Her brother Atli, forced marriage, and threat of disinheritanceread · scan
Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker's HolidayVol. 47
- p. 471Lincoln threatens to disinherit Lacy if he pursues the citizen's daughter, tying inheritance to obedience.read · scan
Philip Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old DebtsVol. 47
- p. 896Overreach bullies his daughter Margaret, threatening to disown her and adopt a stranger heir unless she rises to the noble state he plans.read · scan
Molière, Tartuffe, or The HypocriteVol. 26
- p. 258–261Orgon disinherits and expels his son and insists on marrying his daughter to Tartuffe, asserting that he is master and must be obeyed.read · scan
- p. 261–263Orgon disinherits his son Damis and makes Tartuffe heir, prizing the friend above son, wife and kindred; Cleante urges reconciling father and son.read · scan
- p. 263–264A son is driven from his father's house and disinherited.read · scan
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm, or The Soldier's FortuneVol. 26
- p. 358–359Count von Bruchsal disinherited Minna for refusing the husband he chose; she fled home.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The CenciVol. 18
- p. 298–300Giacomo, disinherited by his father, is left destitute with wife and children; the Pope calls it the war of old and young.read · scan
Robert Browning, A Blot in the 'ScutcheonVol. 18
- p. 402He hands the house, name and lordship to Austin and Guendolen as heirs.read · scan
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