 | sir Thomas Browne - 1754 - 420 pages
...world and the breath of God; woman the rib and crooked piece of man. * I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that...world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition ; it is the foolifheft act a wife man commits in all his life, nor is there any thing that will more... | |
 | Ralph Heathcote - Anecdotes - 1786 - 354 pages
...was not a little infected with it. " I " could be content," fays this philofopher, " that we might procreate like trees without " conjunction, or that...world, without this trivial " and vulgar way of coition : it is the foolifh" eft act a wife man performs in all his life ; " nor is there any thing that will... | |
 | William Mudford - 1802 - 166 pages
...world and the breath of God ; woman the rib and erooked piece of man. I could be content that we might procreate like trees without conjunction, or that...world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition ; it is the fo^lishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there any thing that will more... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...world, and the breath of God ; woman the rib, and crooked piece of man. I could be content that we might procreate, like trees, without conjunction, or that...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 thkig that will more... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...world, 'and the breath of God; woman the rib, and crooked piece of man. I could be content that we might procreate, like trees, without conjunction, or that...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 thing that will more... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1807 - 606 pages
...— He calls woman " the rib, and crooked piece of man." He adds, " I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to procreate the world without this trivial and vulgar way" — He means the union of sexes, which he... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1824 - 536 pages
...— He calls woman " the rib and crooked piece of man." He adds, " I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to procreate the world without this trivial and vulgar way." He means the union of sexes, which he declares... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...world and the breath of God ; woman the rib and crooked piece of man. I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that...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 thing that will more... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...world, and the breath of God; woman the rib, and crooked piece of man. I could be content that we might procreate like trees without conjunction, or that...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 thing that will more... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834 - 344 pages
...twice." He calls woman "the rib and crooked piece of man.'' He adds, " I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to procreate the world without this trivial and vulgar way." He means the union of sexes, which he declares... | |
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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. 
