 | John Marston - 1887 - 434 pages
...flies," &c. a The reader will recall a famous passage of Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici: — " I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were anyway to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of union : it is the foolishest... | |
 | John Marston - 1887 - 438 pages
...flies," &c. 2 The reader will recall a famous passage of Sir Thomas Browne's Keligio Medict: — " I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were anyway to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of union : it is the foolishest... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1889 - 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... | |
 | 1892 - 480 pages
...facilities that she bore twelve children to a husband who had declared he " could be content that we could procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that...world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition, the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor anything that will more deject his cool... | |
 | James Howell - 1892 - 314 pages
...undoubted reference to Sir Thomas Browne's Religu Medici (cf. " his own religion ") Pt. II. § ix. " I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction." Paracelsus. Bombast (1493-1541), Prof, of Natural Philosophy at Basle, professed to be able to make... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1898 - 468 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 marriage and harmony. without this trivial and vulgar way of union : PART II. it is the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1902 - 354 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 any thing that will more deject his... | |
 | 1903 - 1254 pages
...Thomas had whimsically derided the state of marriage. "The whole world was made for man," he had said, "but the twelfth part of man for woman. Man is the...without this trivial and vulgar way of coition." It is not surprising, therefore, that he attracted no little raillery from his satirical contemporaries when,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 368 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: it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life; nor is there any thing that will... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1909 - 258 pages
...Polygamy, which confidering fome times and the unequall number of both fexes may bee alfo necefiary. The whole world was made for man, but the twelfth...were any way to perpetuate the world without this triviall and vulgar way of coition j It is the foolifheft adit a wife man commits in all his life,... | |
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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... 
