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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Page 30
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 those whom we see cut off in ...
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 those whom we see cut off in ...
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In those writings which are , from their antiquity , the wide assent they have
commanded , the character and station of their authors , or from other causes ,
usually regarded as of authority among us , there is often a deficiency in frank
and kindly ...
In those writings which are , from their antiquity , the wide assent they have
commanded , the character and station of their authors , or from other causes ,
usually regarded as of authority among us , there is often a deficiency in frank
and kindly ...
Page 87
In former editions of this book I made the assertion that in the adult the intellectual
qualities are usually in an inverse ratio to the sexual appetites . It has been
pointed out to me that there are so many exceptions to this rule , that I have
thought it ...
In former editions of this book I made the assertion that in the adult the intellectual
qualities are usually in an inverse ratio to the sexual appetites . It has been
pointed out to me that there are so many exceptions to this rule , that I have
thought it ...
Page 138
If the married female conceives every second year , we usually notice that during
the nine months following conception she experiences no great sexual
excitement . The consequence is that sexual desire in the male is somewhat
diminished ...
If the married female conceives every second year , we usually notice that during
the nine months following conception she experiences no great sexual
excitement . The consequence is that sexual desire in the male is somewhat
diminished ...
Page 139
Again , while women are suckling there is usually such a call on the vital force
made by the organs secreting milk that sexual desire is almost annihilated . Now ,
as experience teaches us that a reciprocity of desire is , to a great extent ...
Again , while women are suckling there is usually such a call on the vital force
made by the organs secreting milk that sexual desire is almost annihilated . Now ,
as experience teaches us that a reciprocity of desire is , to a great extent ...
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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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