 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1881 - 648 pages
...made for man, but the twelfth partTof man ?or woman :y Man is the whole Wona, ana the Breath 6f"C|OD ; Woman the Rib and crooked piece of man. I could be...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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 946 pages
...their 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,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1882 - 220 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 com- \ mits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject... | |
 | 1882 - 592 pages
...clause, while he may reject the first, of the following extract from Sir Thomas Brown's Religio Medici: " I could be content that we might procreate like trees,...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... | |
 | 1882 - 916 pages
...while he may reject the first, of the following extract from Sir Thomas Browne's " Religio Medici:" " I could be content that we might procreate like trees,...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... | |
 | 1882 - 934 pages
...while he may reject the first, of the following extract from Sir Thomas Browne's " Religio Medici:" " I could be content that we might procreate like trees,...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 - 1886 - 542 pages
...woman. Man is the whole world, and the breath of God ; woman the rib and crooked piece of man. I wold be content that we might procreate like trees. without...were any way to perpetuate the world without this triviaj^£d_vulgar_wayof coition : it is tEe f oolishest act a wise man commSs inall his life, nor... | |
 | John Marston - 1887 - 434 pages
...like flies," &c. 1 The reader will recall a famous passage of Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici:—" I could be content that we might procreate like trees,...perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of union : it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life." Montaigne has some reflections... | |
 | John Marston - 1887 - 538 pages
...flics," &c. z The reader will recall a famous passage of Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici: — " I could be content that we might procreate like trees,...perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of union : it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life. " Montaigne has some reflections... | |
 | John Marston - 1887 - 434 pages
...like flies," &c. * The reader will recall a famous passage of Sir Thomas Browne's Rcligio Medici: — "I could be content that we might procreate like /...conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the / ^4. world without this trivial and vulgar way of union : it is the foolishest ' "s\ act a wise man... | |
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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... 
