| Sir Richard Francis Burton - History - 1993 - 308 pages
...members have been subject to hereditary disease. Let a person choose for his wife a girl whose person has no defect; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully, like a young elephant; whose hair and teeth are moderate in quantity and in size ; and whose body is of exquisite... | |
| Thomas Robert Maltus - Social Science - 2006 - 325 pages
...will appear to be in some degree confined when it must necessarily rest upon a girl " whose form has no defect; who has an agreeable name; who walks gracefully, like a phenicopteros or a young elephant; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and size; whose body has... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - Social Science - 2013 - 325 pages
...will appear to be in some degree confined when it must necessarily rest upon a girl " whose form has no defect; who has an agreeable name; who walks gracefully, like a phenicopteros or a young elephant; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and size; whose body has... | |
| G.C. Haughton - 412 pages
...with any name raising an image of terror. i 10. ' Let him choose for his wife a girl, whose form ' has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who ' walks...gracefully like a phenicopteros, or like a young ' elephant : whose hair and teeth are moderate respec' tively in quantity and in size ; whose body has ex' quisite... | |
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