Primitive Love and Love-storiesC. Scribner's sons, 1899 - 851 pages |
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... Lower Races of Men , 181 - Egyptian Love , 185 - Arabian Love , 186 - The Unchiv- alrous Greeks , 188 - Ovid's Sham Gallantry , 189 - Medi¿val and Modern Gallantry , 190— " An Insult to Woman , " 192— Summary , 193 - A Sure Test of Love ...
... Lower Races of Men , 181 - Egyptian Love , 185 - Arabian Love , 186 - The Unchiv- alrous Greeks , 188 - Ovid's Sham Gallantry , 189 - Medi¿val and Modern Gallantry , 190— " An Insult to Woman , " 192— Summary , 193 - A Sure Test of Love ...
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... Lower than Beasts , 384 - Colonies of Free Lovers , 386 - A Lesson in Gallantry , 387 - Not a Particle of Romance , 388 - No Love Among Negroes , 389 - A Queer Story , 390 ; Suicides , 392 - Poetic Love on the Congo , 392 - Black Love ...
... Lower than Beasts , 384 - Colonies of Free Lovers , 386 - A Lesson in Gallantry , 387 - Not a Particle of Romance , 388 - No Love Among Negroes , 389 - A Queer Story , 390 ; Suicides , 392 - Poetic Love on the Congo , 392 - Black Love ...
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... Lower than Brutes , 430 - Indifference to Chastity , 431 - Useless Pre- cautions , 433 - Survivals of Promiscuity , 435 - Aboriginal De- pravity , 437 - The Question of Promiscuity , 438 - Why do Aus- tralians Marry ? 441 - Curiosities ...
... Lower than Brutes , 430 - Indifference to Chastity , 431 - Useless Pre- cautions , 433 - Survivals of Promiscuity , 435 - Aboriginal De- pravity , 437 - The Question of Promiscuity , 438 - Why do Aus- tralians Marry ? 441 - Curiosities ...
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... lower to higher animals , which is as illogical as it would be to assume that since birds have such beautiful and convenient things as wings , and dogs belong to a higher genus of animals , there- fore dogs ought to have better wings ...
... lower to higher animals , which is as illogical as it would be to assume that since birds have such beautiful and convenient things as wings , and dogs belong to a higher genus of animals , there- fore dogs ought to have better wings ...
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... lower , carnal phases ? " Well , we have here a parallel case . The Dyaks are " mild , gentle , and hospitable , " yet their chief delight and glory is murder ! And as one of the main ob- jects of this book is to dwell on the various ...
... lower , carnal phases ? " Well , we have here a parallel case . The Dyaks are " mild , gentle , and hospitable , " yet their chief delight and glory is murder ! And as one of the main ob- jects of this book is to dwell on the various ...
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Abipones admiration adoration affection African allowed altruistic amorous ancient animals Australian bride Buje Bushmen called capture chapter charms chastity chief choice cited civilized coarse conjugal courtship coyness custom daughter declares desire Dyaks elopement emotions Eskimos esthetic eyes face fact father favor feeling female feminine Fiji Fijians gallantry girl girl's give Greek hair heart Hindoo honor Hottentots husband incest Indians infanticide ingredients instance Iroquois island jealousy Kaffir Kalidasa killed king live look lover lower races maiden Malavika marriage marry masculine modern modern lover modesty moral mother natives never ornaments parents passion Persian personal beauty poems poets polygamy primitive reason referred refined regard relates remarks romantic love savages says Schoolcraft self-sacrifice selfish sense sensual sentiment sexes sexual sexual selection sister slave squaws story suitor sympathy tattooing tells Theocritus thing tion Tongans tribes true love Urvasi warrior Westermarck wife wives woman women word writes young
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Page 713 - Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
Page 721 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field ; Let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, And the pomegranates bud forth: There will I give thee my loves.
Page 819 - Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery, That aptly is put on.
Page 727 - I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Page 153 - A lean cheek ; which you have not : a blue eye, and sunken ; which you have not : an unquestionable spirit ; which you have not : a beard neglected ; which you have not : (but I pardon you for that ; for, simply, your having in beard is a younger brother's revenue :) Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation.
Page 166 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Page 141 - Would through the airy region stream so bright, That birds would sing, and think it were not night. See how she leans her cheek upon her hand ! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek ! Jul.
Page 703 - And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man : abide with me. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Page 718 - Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Page 708 - And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel; and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?