The pleasures of human life : investigated cheerfully, elucidated satirically, promulgated explicitly, and discussed philosophically. In a dozen dissertations on male, female, and neuter pleasures. Interspersed with various anecdotes, and expounded by numerous annotations. / By Hilaris Benevolus, & Co.

  • Britton, John, 1771-1857.
Date:
1807
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Credit: The pleasures of human life : investigated cheerfully, elucidated satirically, promulgated explicitly, and discussed philosophically. In a dozen dissertations on male, female, and neuter pleasures. Interspersed with various anecdotes, and expounded by numerous annotations. / By Hilaris Benevolus, & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fought for, and withhold their “slow consent” so long, that most of their admirers being killed off in the service, they at length are left forlorn, to enjoy all the horrors of a single life, and protracted virginity. But as Simkin says, “there are no folks so mad as those who run mad for love.”!!! This unaccountable infatu- ation is now more prevalent than ever, and takes such possession of the mind, that some of the wisest men, and even ministers of state have had recourse to this signal mode of settling dif- ferences and of identifying, and fixing the “PRUE POINT OF HONOR.