 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 ; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there any...  Curiosities of Literature - Página 64por Isaac Disraeli - 1807Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Claire Preston - 2005 - 276 páginas
...the 'To the Reader' is not naive: if he had once upon a time recorded his bizarre regret that coition is 'the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life', and eccentrically wished that we could procreate like trees,20 the older and more experienced Browne... | |
 | Edward J. Huth, T. J. Murray - 2006 - 597 páginas
...or that there were any way to 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 more deject his cool'd imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.... | |
 | John Carey - 2006 - 300 páginas
...that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar act of coition. It is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy... | |
 | Robert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody - 2006 - 430 páginas
...Augustinian wish for some less passionate ("like trees"!) and messy way to propagate than sexual intercourse, "the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cold imagination, when he shall consider what an odde and unworthy... | |
 | Colin Bingham - 2006 - 428 páginas
...or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of union: it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life. ... I speak not in prejudice, nor am averse from that sweet sex, but naturally amorous of all that... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 348 páginas
...that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition. It is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his...odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed. I speak not in prejudice, nor am averse from that sweet sex, but naturally amorous of all that is beautiful.... | |
 | 1881 - 404 páginas
...that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition. It is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his...cooled imagination when he shall consider what an unworthy piece of folly he hath committed." As to the other objection, no matter how universal a practice... | |
 | Ron Carlson - 1981 - 124 páginas
...high repute as a physician. In 1641 he married and despite his opinion that the act of coition was "the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cooled imagination than to reflect upon the folly he hath committed... | |
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