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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 fostered at the expense of his physical ...
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 fostered at the expense of his physical ...
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If such parents would read the biographies of eminent characters who have
succeeded in the highest walks of their various professions , they would find that
one of the most necessary means of success in life is a strong constitution . If on
this ...
If such parents would read the biographies of eminent characters who have
succeeded in the highest walks of their various professions , they would find that
one of the most necessary means of success in life is a strong constitution . If on
this ...
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... as I have always appeared and felt strong , healthy , vigorous at school , very
fond of play , subsequently well able to perform my daily duties either as regards
business or intellectual engagements , and have never been averse to society .
... as I have always appeared and felt strong , healthy , vigorous at school , very
fond of play , subsequently well able to perform my daily duties either as regards
business or intellectual engagements , and have never been averse to society .
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They are a luxury for the strong only , and I am disposed 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
...
They are a luxury for the strong only , and I am disposed 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
...
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Sydney Smith recommends the enlistment of the dread of ridicule , even , 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 individual
among ...
Sydney Smith recommends the enlistment of the dread of ridicule , even , 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 individual
among ...
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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
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| Title | The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age, and Advanced Life: Considered in Their Physiological, Social, and Moral Relations |
| Author | William Acton |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | Lindsay & Blakiston, 1871 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 262 pages |
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