| Sir Thomas Browne - 1863 - 226 σελίδες
...declared, that " the whole world was made " for man, but only the twelfth part of man " for woman ;"3 and that " man is the whole " world, but woman only...of man." Whether the lady had been yet informed of thefe contemptuous pofitions, or whether fhe was pleafed with the conqueft of fo formidable a rebel,... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1863 - 394 σελίδες
...been wiming in his new book, " that we might procreate, like trees, " without conjunction ;" and had lately declared, that " the whole world was made "...man, but only the twelfth part of man " for woman ;"3 and that " man is the whole " world, but woman only the rib or crooked " part of man." Whether... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 σελίδες
...who had just been wishing, in his ' Iteligio Medici,' that " we might procreate like trees," and had declared that " the whole world was made for man, but only the twelfth part of man for woman," to the charge of inconsistency, was fraught with happiness to the Doctor, and his fair partner, who... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 556 σελίδες
...husband for forty-one years, though at the time of their marriage he had just published his opinion that " man is the whole world, but woman only the rib or crooked part of man." Frank Hois. Portrait of Himself. Vandyke. Margaret, Countess of Carlisle, and her little daughter.... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 532 σελίδες
...husband for forty-one years, though at the time of their marriage he had just published his opinion that " man is the whole world, but woman only the rib or crooked part of man." Frank Hals. Portrait of Himself. Vandyke. Margaret, Countess of Carlisle, and her little daughter.... | |
| 1874 - 748 σελίδες
...that we ought to multiply our species like trees, who by themselves throw out young suckers," and " that the whole world was made for man, but only the twelfth part of a man fora woman." Sir Thomas was knighted by Charles II. in 1671. He was the author of " Pseudo Doxies... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1886 - 542 σελίδες
...propagated like tides, instead of by the "vulgar and trivial way" of marriage,"^ He also maintained that " the whole world was made for man, but only the twelfth part of man for woman," she being " the rib or crooked part of man." That he should have taken to himself a wife just before... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1896 - 266 σελίδες
...a wife. The marriage was a happy one, even though he had lately declared in his " Religio Medici " that " the whole world was made for man, but only...world, but woman only the rib or crooked part of man." // / - I 1 II With such doctrines as these, he is not likely to be held in high esteem in Radcliffe... | |
| Edward John Hardy - 1897 - 376 σελίδες
...celebrated work " Religio Medici," Sir Thomas Browne wished that " we might procreate like trees," and declared that " the whole world was made for man,...world, but woman only the rib, or crooked part of man." And yet Sir Thomas took to himself the " twelfth part of man " in the shape of Mrs. Mileham, a lady... | |
| John Thomson - 1899 - 88 σελίδες
...was not altogether unfairly subjected to a good deal of raillery. His opinions included the thoughts that the " whole world was made for man, " but only..." but woman only the rib or crooked part of man." In " Hydriotaphia," the author, having accidentally discovered a few urns at Walsingham, proceeds to... | |
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