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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... vice , and we trust that others , whose position as men of science and teachers enable them to speak with authority , will assist in combating and arresting the evils which it entails , and thus enable man to devote more enduring ...
... vice , and we trust that others , whose position as men of science and teachers enable them to speak with authority , will assist in combating and arresting the evils which it entails , and thus enable man to devote more enduring ...
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... vice is a very frequent cause of timidity . Habitual masturbators have a dank , moist , cold hand , very characteristic of great vital exhaustion ; their sleep is short , and most complete marasmus comes on ; they may gradually waste ...
... vice is a very frequent cause of timidity . Habitual masturbators have a dank , moist , cold hand , very characteristic of great vital exhaustion ; their sleep is short , and most complete marasmus comes on ; they may gradually waste ...
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... vice , have lamented that they were not , when children , made aware of its conse- quences , and I have been entreated over and over again to urge on parents , guardians , schoolmasters , and others interested in the education of youth ...
... vice , have lamented that they were not , when children , made aware of its conse- quences , and I have been entreated over and over again to urge on parents , guardians , schoolmasters , and others interested in the education of youth ...
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... vice , as ignorant of consequences as the pupil , and unable to administer the anti- dote with the poison . The warning often would not be so unintelligible to a child as is sometimes supposed . Parents are frequently disinclined to ...
... vice , as ignorant of consequences as the pupil , and unable to administer the anti- dote with the poison . The warning often would not be so unintelligible to a child as is sometimes supposed . Parents are frequently disinclined to ...
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... vice ; the majority too often favor or support it more or less openly . To make virtue , propriety , self - restraint fashionable ( so to speak ) should be , it appears to me , one of the chief objects at which masters and tutors should ...
... vice ; the majority too often favor or support it more or less openly . To make virtue , propriety , self - restraint fashionable ( so to speak ) should be , it appears to me , one of the chief objects at which masters and tutors should ...
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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.