 | R. B. Outhwaite - 1995 - 242 lehte
...(1605-82), that man had developed some other way of reproduction : I could be content [wrote Browne] that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction,...way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and worldly way of union : it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything... | |
 | Edward Wait - 1996 - 320 lehte
...are we? I could be content that we might raise each other from death to life as ?>.osie Crucians doe without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vain way of coition as Dr Brown calls it. It is foolishest act a wise man commits all his life, nor... | |
 | Charles S. Bryan - 1997 - 290 lehte
...reinforced by the musings of Sir Thomas Browne concerning the dangers of passion: I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction,...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 lehte
...last, I made a speech about two problems of our country — energy and malaise. I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction,...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... | |
 | Gilbert Geis, Ivan Bunn - 1997 - 308 lehte
...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... | |
 | Peter Harrison - 2001 - 330 lehte
...in reversing. (Sir Thomas Browne was an exception, admitting in Religio Medici: 'I could be content that we might procreate like trees without conjunction,...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... | |
 | William Gerber - 1998 - 148 lehte
...sexual intercourse as trivial, vulgar, foolish, odd, and unworthy. He wrote: (158) I could be content 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 can commit in all his life,... | |
 | Daniela Havenstein - 1999 - 262 lehte
...may serve as a paradigm: I could be content rhat we might procreate like trees, wuhout conjuncrion, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial I and vulgar way of coition; It is the foolishest act a wise man commus m all his life, nor is there... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 274 lehte
...should love you better than all others — but not to wish that a Wife should. [#37[ I could be content that we might procreate like trees without conjunction,...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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 2003 - 180 lehte
...and erooked pieee ot man. I eould be eomem that we might proereate like trees, without eonjunetion, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of eoition. It is the ttiolishest aet a wise man eommtts in all his life, nor is there anything that will... | |
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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. 
