A lecture on the generation, increase, and improvement of the human species / [Anon].

  • James Graham
Date:
[1783?]
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Credit: A lecture on the generation, increase, and improvement of the human species / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    horfc ftopt fuddenly ;—the young fellow could not get him to go on ; for the' horfe faw near him a very beaut.ful iparc d he mare at the fame time had e\ed the horle. IS’ature iminediatelv exerted herfelf in both 'I he horfc pawed, neighed, fnorted, and (hewed the moft formidable marks of his defire of being more clofUy connected with the tempting and amouroully bred mare The good, woman, though toothlcfs, was not blind: but attentively obferving the genial fire of the horfe’s eyes and noftrils, —his amazing force,—and his turged plenitude of vi- gour !—She was fo violently agitated by every effort the horfe made to get to the mare ; that no doubt, recollec- ting certain plealures which (he herlelfhad enjoyed in her •youth, fhe maddened at the fight—fhe was convulfed at the recolleflion—infomuch that Ihe fqueezed the butter' through her fingers, and adlualJy bit the Htilling through and through with her watering yet iron gums ! fdow alfonilhing is the force of the imagination of the* bodily faculties !—dome of you, gentlemen ! may perhap; have experienced., that the imagination being intenfeh rivited, at certain times, on a very beautiful or mucl loved woman, it will make a'man enjoy a plain one witl almoff equal ardour.* I fay not thefe things to recall paf intemperances, to excite lafeivious ideas, or to inflamr. levvd imaginations. No. But for very laudible and im portant purpofes,—namely, to fugged to men the variuu. arts of procreating in cafes of barrennefs, on fubjects bu ill fitted to excite the neceffary ardour. I mean on 'bur fluggiib, or ugly women, or on thofe who are paff th ineiidiaii of youth, b.auty, and lovelincfs -—Every on of you, gentlemen., who is bleffed with a wife, fancies her I hope, to be the lovelieft woman in the world ! This : the true way to haN e a iiumerou'' anda handfome offspring What the Papills fay in regard to traiifubllantiation,— really true in all matters of love, qu:>d hah:s^ it hahe Hence, probably the old proverbs,— lil cats are grey i ) the dark ; and that the maid is as good in bed as my lady and we all recollect the (lory in the Old I'eifament, < the antient patriarch, who had the blear eyed Lea impodd upon Ibm in the dark, by her cunning fathe i He made her eiTeCtaaily pregnant that ni-ht; nor did i
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