...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

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