 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 584 pages
...crooked piece oi' man. I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without«onjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world...this trivial and vulgar way of coition : it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there any thing that will more deject his... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1857 - 524 pages
...resolutions, who never marry twice.' He calls woman * the rib, and crooked piece of man/ He adds, * I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or lhat there \vere any way to procreate the world without this trivial and vulgar way/ He means the union... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 544 pages
...resolutions, who never marry twice." He calls woman "the rib and crooked piece of man." He adds, " I could be content that we might procreate like trees,...without conjunction, or that there were any way to procreate the world without this trivial and vulgar way." He means the union of sexes, which he declares,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 526 pages
...rfsnlu* tioiis, who never marry twice.1 He call* woman * the rib, and crooked piece of man.' He add*, ' I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, of that there were any way to procreate the world withnu i ! i !•. trivial and vulgar way.* He means... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 290 pages
...polygamy, which, considering some times, and the unequal number of both sexes, may be also necessary. The whole world was made for man, but the twelfth...this trivial and vulgar way of coition : it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life ; nor is there anything that will more deject his... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 552 pages
...man is the whole world, and the breath of Gq4 ; woman the rib, and crooked piece of man. v I/could be content that we might procreate like trees without...without this trivial and vulgar way of coition : it Js the^fbolishest act a"jrise man commits in all mslife ;, nor is there anything that will more deject... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1869 - 240 pages
...polygamy, which considering some times, and the unequal number of both sexes, may be also necessary. The whole world was made for man, but the twelfth...this trivial and vulgar way of coition : it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his... | |
 | Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1879 - 422 pages
...know, her felfe a woman is. Compare with this SIR THOMAS BROWNE in his Religio Medici (§. ix) : " Man is the whole world, and the breath of God ; woman...this trivial and vulgar way of coition : it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there any thing that will more deject his... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1881 - 466 pages
...Polygamy, which, considering some times, and the unequal number of both sexes, may be also necessary. The whole World was made for man, but the twelfth...perpetuate the World without this trivial and vulgar way of union : PART II. it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life ; nor is there any thing... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1881 - 476 pages
...Polygamy, which, considering some times, and the unequal number of both sexes, may be also necessary. The whole World was made for man, but the twelfth...or that there were any way to perpetuate the World SECT. IX. Of marriftgo and harmony. without this trivial and vulgar way of union : PART II. it is the... | |
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I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition... 
