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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... strong gymnastic exercises . We must , however , recollect , that it is not the strong athletic boy , fond of healthy exercise , who thus early shows marks of sexual desires , but your puny exotic , whose intellectual education has been ...
... strong gymnastic exercises . We must , however , recollect , that it is not the strong athletic boy , fond of healthy exercise , who thus early shows marks of sexual desires , but your puny exotic , whose intellectual education has been ...
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... strong constitution . If on this be engrafted superior intellectual endowments , accompanied by that energy of character which usually attends the strong , success in after life may be nearly ensured . Youths thus happily gifted are not ...
... strong constitution . If on this be engrafted superior intellectual endowments , accompanied by that energy of character which usually attends the strong , success in after life may be nearly ensured . Youths thus happily gifted are not ...
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... strong , healthy , vigorous at school , very fond of play , subsequently well able to per- form my daily duties either as regards business or intellectual engagements , and have never been averse to society . " In nearly all young ...
... strong , healthy , vigorous at school , very fond of play , subsequently well able to per- form my daily duties either as regards business or intellectual engagements , and have never been averse to society . " In nearly all young ...
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... strong only , and I am dis- posed to think the sponge - bath , as a general rule , far preferable . Sea or river bathing is a good thing , no doubt , but is never likely to be of the same value as the sponge - bath , as , from cir ...
... strong only , and I am dis- posed to think the sponge - bath , as a general rule , far preferable . Sea or river bathing is a good thing , no doubt , but is never likely to be of the same value as the sponge - bath , as , from cir ...
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... on the same side : - " Put a hundred boys , " he says , " together , and the fear of being laughed at will always be a strong influencing motive with every indi- vidual among them . If a master can turn this 40 DISORDERS IN CHILDHOOD .
... on the same side : - " Put a hundred boys , " he says , " together , and the fear of being laughed at will always be a strong influencing motive with every indi- vidual among them . If a master can turn this 40 DISORDERS IN CHILDHOOD .
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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.