...fulltime students was reinforced by the musings of Sir Thomas Browne concerning the dangers of passion: I could be content that we might procreate like trees,...this trivial and vulgar way of coition; It is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his...

...Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our country — energy and malaise. I could be content that we might procreate like trees,...world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition. THOMAS BROWNE, (1605-1682) British physician, author. Religio Medici, pt. 2, set. 9 (1643). 2 A hen...

...distaste for sexual intercourse. "I could be content," he wrote as a young man, before his marriage, "that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction,...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."102...

...showed any real interest in reversing. (Sir Thomas Browne was an exception, admitting in 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 49 James Turner, One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual...

...Physician), described sexual intercourse as trivial, vulgar, foolish, odd, and unworthy. He wrote: (158) 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 can commit in all his life,...

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...nonanimal sexuality has even been a source of envy to Sir Thomas Browne, who wrote in the 17th century, "I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction" (Religio Medici, pt. ii, #9) In summary, emotional reactions to tree cutting vary historically, depending...

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...men to be, but women / Must be half- workers?" Browne [who sired ten children], Religio Medici 2.9, "Man is the whole World and the Breath of God; Woman...World without this trivial and vulgar way of coition." [N] ITodd adds an increasingly elusive note involving the play, Swetnam the WomanHate r Arraigned and...