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 76
... requires so much anxious watchfulness , and even painful effort to subdue . In the previous editions of this book I treated only of the religious , educational , and hygienic plans for enabling a young man to continue or return to a ...
... requires so much anxious watchfulness , and even painful effort to subdue . In the previous editions of this book I treated only of the religious , educational , and hygienic plans for enabling a young man to continue or return to a ...
Page 80
... requiring his college to help him . The fellowship was not given the man to make him ' idle and affluent , ' but simply in order to secure him the proper leisure for ' working ; ' to save him the time he would otherwise spend in earning ...
... requiring his college to help him . The fellowship was not given the man to make him ' idle and affluent , ' but simply in order to secure him the proper leisure for ' working ; ' to save him the time he would otherwise spend in earning ...
Page 86
... requires , no doubt , a peculiar caution in the choice of habits and amusements . Mr. Acton's advice as regards exercise and diet is invaluable , and the greater extreme to which that system can be carried , without injuring the health ...
... requires , no doubt , a peculiar caution in the choice of habits and amusements . Mr. Acton's advice as regards exercise and diet is invaluable , and the greater extreme to which that system can be carried , without injuring the health ...
Page 103
... require labor , than in those which must be written with a certain de- gree of readiness , like letters - a kind of composition of which I have never been able to catch the proper tone , and the effort at which is misery to me . I never ...
... require labor , than in those which must be written with a certain de- gree of readiness , like letters - a kind of composition of which I have never been able to catch the proper tone , and the effort at which is misery to me . I never ...
Page 114
... requires to be done for him . Cleanliness is neglected , and his dress unattended to . He makes no effort to speak , and when addressed , although conscious , does not appear to compre- hend what is said . He will not feed himself ...
... requires to be done for him . Cleanliness is neglected , and his dress unattended to . He makes no effort to speak , and when addressed , although conscious , does not appear to compre- hend what is said . He will not feed himself ...
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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.