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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... painful . This symptom may , I believe , appear very early in life , and , if not removed , lead to consequences that will be aggravated by youthful ignorance and want of self - control . It is to be wished , that all medical men ...
... painful . This symptom may , I believe , appear very early in life , and , if not removed , lead to consequences that will be aggravated by youthful ignorance and want of self - control . It is to be wished , that all medical men ...
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... pain ; and the tree of knowledge of good and evil is the symbol of it , as true as it is expressive . Thus even love by its excesses hastens and abets the inevitable doom for which , in the first instance , by the aid of pas- sion , it ...
... pain ; and the tree of knowledge of good and evil is the symbol of it , as true as it is expressive . Thus even love by its excesses hastens and abets the inevitable doom for which , in the first instance , by the aid of pas- sion , it ...
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... pain . The veriest trifler who read his penny paper cannot become acquainted with the offensive details there to be found , without listening to the attendant moral ; and thus the antidote follows the poison . It is in this way that men ...
... pain . The veriest trifler who read his penny paper cannot become acquainted with the offensive details there to be found , without listening to the attendant moral ; and thus the antidote follows the poison . It is in this way that men ...
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... commenced this work , to put myself forward as a religious adviser , but I so frequently re- ceive painful letters from young men , seeking advice how to curb the lusts of the flesh , that I was induced CONTINENCE . 63.
... commenced this work , to put myself forward as a religious adviser , but I so frequently re- ceive painful letters from young men , seeking advice how to curb the lusts of the flesh , that I was induced CONTINENCE . 63.
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... painful . All the help that one excellent clergyman can give to tempted brethren is this : " Another man is tormented by evil thoughts at night . Let him be directed to cross his arms upon his breast , and extend himself as if he were ...
... painful . All the help that one excellent clergyman can give to tempted brethren is this : " Another man is tormented by evil thoughts at night . Let him be directed to cross his arms upon his breast , and extend himself as if he were ...
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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.