 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1912 - 420 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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1922 - 310 pages
...woman : Man is flke whole World, and the Breath J of God; Woman the Rib, and crooked piece of m'anjj 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 any thing that will more deject his... | |
 | Jacob Zeitlin - 1926 - 408 pages
...necessary. The whole world was made for man, but the twelfth part of man for Ecclesiastes, vii, 23. J woman : man is the whole world, and the breath of...perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of union: it is the f oolishest act a wise man commits in all his life ; nor is there anything that will... | |
 | 1909 - 378 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... | |
 | James A. Brundage - 2009 - 714 pages
...taste when He made human reproduction depend on sexual coupling: I could be content [wrote Browne] that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction,...way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and worldly way of union: it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...species by fashioning them of clay. Martin Luther (1483-1546) German leader of the Protestant Reformation I could be content that we might procreate like trees,...world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English physician, author This sex attraction, though it is so useful... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht, C. J. Greenwood - 1992 - 822 pages
...English novelist Sir Thomas Browne ( 1 605-82) had pointed in his book Religie Medici where he said: The whole world was made for man; but the twelfth...there were any way to perpetuate the world without the trivial and vulgar way of union. However the Senior District Magistrate of Muleba Mr LS Ngonyani... | |
 | William Gerber - 1994 - 312 pages
...Physician), described sexual intercourse as trivial, vulgar, foolish, odd, and unworthy. He wrote: (605) I could be content that we might procreate like trees,...were any way to perpetuate the world without this triviall and vulgar way of coition. It is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor... | |
 | R. B. Outhwaite - 1995 - 242 pages
...(1605-82), that man had developed some other way of reproduction : I could be content [wrote Browne] that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction,...way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and worldly way of union : it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything... | |
 | Edward Wait - 1996 - 320 pages
...are we? I could be content that we might raise each other from death to life as ?>.osie Crucians doe without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vain way of coition as Dr Brown calls it. It is foolishest act a wise man commits all his life, nor... | |
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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... 
