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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... matters . Had my father taken such a course with me , I am fully justi- fied in saying I should not have fallen into ... matter of course , indulged in the habit , and , without a thought of its bane- ful consequences , have practised it ...
... matters . Had my father taken such a course with me , I am fully justi- fied in saying I should not have fallen into ... matter of course , indulged in the habit , and , without a thought of its bane- ful consequences , have practised it ...
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... matter . At any rate , it is very important , as I said at first , that parents and tutors should be fortified with a knowledge far greater than they generally possess on these subjects . I should have found it myself far easier to deal ...
... matter . At any rate , it is very important , as I said at first , that parents and tutors should be fortified with a knowledge far greater than they generally possess on these subjects . I should have found it myself far easier to deal ...
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... matter , but that it was a subject in which he , as a medical man , was alone concerned ; and so probably even his advice would not have the influence which it other- wise might . He , of course , by acting in concert with the masters ...
... matter , but that it was a subject in which he , as a medical man , was alone concerned ; and so probably even his advice would not have the influence which it other- wise might . He , of course , by acting in concert with the masters ...
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... matter is God's provision that the unmarried man shall not be harmed by perfect chastity . That it is ever other than natural , normal , and beneficial , I never heard or dreamed , until I was past the age of fifty . The Roman poet ...
... matter is God's provision that the unmarried man shall not be harmed by perfect chastity . That it is ever other than natural , normal , and beneficial , I never heard or dreamed , until I was past the age of fifty . The Roman poet ...
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... matter of everyday expe- rience to hear patients complain that a state of continence after a certain time produces a most irritable condition of the nervous system , so that the individual is unable to settle his mind to any- thing ...
... matter of everyday expe- rience to hear patients complain that a state of continence after a certain time produces a most irritable condition of the nervous system , so that the individual is unable to settle his mind to any- thing ...
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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.