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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... "
Religio medici. To which is added, sir Digby's Observations. Also critical notes - Page 186
by sir Thomas Browne - 1754
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Osler: Inspirations from a Great Physician

Charles S. Bryan - 1997 - 290 pages
...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...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...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...
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A Trial of Witches: A Seventeenth-century Witchcraft Prosecution

Gilbert Geis, Ivan Bunn - 1997 - 308 pages
...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...
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The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science

Peter Harrison - 2001 - 330 pages
...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...
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Love, Poetry, and Immortality: Luminous Insights of the World's Great Thinkers

William Gerber - 1998 - 148 pages
...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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Democratizing Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici and Its Imitations

Daniela Havenstein - 1999 - 262 pages
...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...
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Brands, Consumers, Symbols and Research: Sidney J Levy on Marketing

Sidney J. Levy - 1999 - 612 pages
...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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A Book I Value: Selected Marginalia

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 274 pages
...that your Friend 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...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...
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Selected Writings

Sir Thomas Browne - 2003 - 180 pages
...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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Paradise Lost, 1668-1968: Three Centuries of Commentary

Earl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski - 2004 - 520 pages
...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...
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