The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age, and Advanced Life: Considered in Their Physiological, Social, and Moral Relations |
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... connected with the generative function has been a labor of love ; and we accordingly find that whether as regards the structure , the functions , or the diseases of the organs in question , every circumstance has received the minutest ...
... connected with the generative function has been a labor of love ; and we accordingly find that whether as regards the structure , the functions , or the diseases of the organs in question , every circumstance has received the minutest ...
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... connected , were of little or no moment . A different , and , I trust , healthier feeling has arisen since the first edition of this book was published ; and I think I need not here repeat the apology or defence with which the earlier ...
... connected , were of little or no moment . A different , and , I trust , healthier feeling has arisen since the first edition of this book was published ; and I think I need not here repeat the apology or defence with which the earlier ...
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... connection strikes its roots so deep as generally to survive most other ties . I am speaking of what schoolmasters cannot be ignorant of - the sentimental fancy taken by an elder boy to a younger , between whom there can be , in the ...
... connection strikes its roots so deep as generally to survive most other ties . I am speaking of what schoolmasters cannot be ignorant of - the sentimental fancy taken by an elder boy to a younger , between whom there can be , in the ...
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... connected with - an open or avowed prac- tice of the vice was sternly repressed by the force of public opinion ; and this is more or less the case , I believe , at all of them . The superiority of I attrib- ute principally to the ...
... connected with - an open or avowed prac- tice of the vice was sternly repressed by the force of public opinion ; and this is more or less the case , I believe , at all of them . The superiority of I attrib- ute principally to the ...
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... connection of the psychical attachment with the more corporeal instinct that the difference between the sexual relations of man and those of the lower animals lies . In proportion as the human being makes the temporary gratification of ...
... connection of the psychical attachment with the more corporeal instinct that the difference between the sexual relations of man and those of the lower animals lies . In proportion as the human being makes the temporary gratification of ...
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Page 50 - If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions ; but we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion.
Page 47 - In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Page 328 - ... for this night's repetition of the folly ; could he feel the body of the death out of which I cry hourly with feebler and feebler outcry to be delivered, — it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling temptation ; to make him clasp his teeth, and not undo 'em To suffer WET DAMNATION to run thro
Page 164 - As a general rule, a modest woman seldom desires any sexual gratification for herself. She submits to her husband, but only to please him; and, but for the desire of maternity, would far rather be relieved from his attentions.