The machine represented in the frontispiece to this work, was invented for Mrs. Berkley to flog gentlemen upon, in the spring of 1828. […] There is a print in Mrs. Berkley's memoirs, representing a man upon it quite naked. A woman is sitting in a chair exactly under it, with her bosom, belly, and bush exposed: she is manualizing his embolon [plug], whilst Mrs. Berkley is birching his posteriors.

Now the serpent was more subtill then any beast of the field, which the LORD God had made, and he said vnto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of euery tree of the garden?

There is a ſinful concupiſcence, called evil concupiſcence, and the luſting of the fleſh againſt the ſpirit, it is this that is here ſpoken of, the inordinateneſs of that luſt or concupiſcibleneſs, or concupiſcible power, turning aſide out of its natural line to that which is evil: It is this which God forbiddeth in this command, and ſetteth bounds to the deſiring or concupiſcible faculty.

Yet these “ubiquitary nullibists,” (to borrow the jargon of Henry More,) this cosmopolitan cryptarchy, is co-extensive with the habitable world; and while with one hand it is preparing for Paris and Marseilles the desertion and desolation of […]