The philosophy of marriage, in its social, moral and physical relations; with an account of the diseases of the genito-urinary organs which impair or destroy the reproductive function; with the physiology of generation in the vegetable and animal kingdoms; part of a course of lects

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الصفحة 209 - Lag of a brother? Why bastard? Wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base?
الصفحة 43 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife ; and they shall be two in one flesh.
الصفحة 112 - This dance was very different from what I had seen before. Nothing could be more artful, or more proper to raise certain ideas. The tunes so soft! — the motions so languishing! — accompanied with pauses and dying eyes! half-falling back, and then recovering themselves in so artful a manner...
الصفحة 180 - That changes produced by external causes in the appearance or constitution of the individual are temporary; and, in general, acquired characters are transient; they terminate with the individual, and have no influence on the progeny.
الصفحة 100 - Lucinda shares thy walk, With soul to thine attun'd. Then Nature all Wears to the lover's eye a look of love ; And all the tumult of a guilty world) Tost by ungenerous passions, sinks away.
الصفحة viii - Must love be ever treated with profaneness, as a mere illusion ? or with coarseness, as a mere impulse ? or with fear, as a mere disease ? or with shame, as a mere weakness ? or with levity, as a mere accident ? Whereas, it is a great mystery and a great necessity, lying at the foundation of human existence, morality, and happiness ; mysterious, universal, inevitable as death.
الصفحة 112 - Her fair maids were ranged below the sofa, to the number of twenty, and put me in mind of the pictures of the ancient nymphs. I did not think all nature could have furnished such a scene of beauty.
الصفحة 238 - Such an improvement of the doctrine of the enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent...
الصفحة 42 - Marriage was instituted by the divine Creator in the time of man's primitive innocence, as the means of his happiness, and the perpetuation of his race. The wisdom of its institution has been felt and acknowledged in every age ; but before undertaking that important and prudent step...
الصفحة 112 - She made them a sign to play and dance. Four of them immediately began to play some soft airs on instruments between a lute and a guitar, which they accompanied with their voices, while the others danced by turns. This dance was very different from what I had seen before.

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