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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In all cases , I would tell them , the best preventive step to be taken is to watch their children , if not actually to warn them against what it is to be hoped they are ignorant of , and to develop all their muscular powers by strong ...
In all cases , I would tell them , the best preventive step to be taken is to watch their children , if not actually to warn them against what it is to be hoped they are ignorant of , and to develop all their muscular powers by strong ...
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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 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 .
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I must say , however , that it never had the effect upon me I should have expected from reading your book , inasmuch as I have always appeared and felt strong , healthy , vigorous at school , very fond of play , subsequently well able ...
I must say , however , that it never had the effect upon me I should have expected from reading your book , inasmuch as I have always appeared and felt strong , healthy , vigorous at school , very fond of play , subsequently well able ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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.
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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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