In the lowest region of the mind, which is called the natural, reside all the concupiscences of lasciviousness, but in the superior region, which is called the spiritual, there are not any concupiscences, 305.

Interesting particulars concerning concupiscence not visionary or fantastic, in which all men are born, 269.

Who can convert concupiscence, which is innate in every man, into such chastity, thus into somewhat not itself, and yet love?

Piper, wet your whistle, Canst tell me a way now, how to cut off my wifes Concupiscence?

worthily lash him for it; and well they might: for as one saith, "the very sight of naked parts causeth enormous, exceeding concupiscences, and stirs up both men and women to burning lust."

The state of betrothing with such scarcely answers any other purpose, than that they may fill their concupiscences with lasciviousness, and thereby contaminate the conjugial principle of love.

So that, without doubt, there is some secret loadstone in a beautiful woman, a magnetic power, a natural inbred affection, which moves our concupiscence, and as he sings, "Methinks I have a mistress yet to come, And still I seek, I love, I know not whom.

And in order to show you, not what kind of justification I may expect, but whether M. Flaubert has made use of lascivious colour, and whence he got his inspiration, let me put upon your desk this book used by him, in whose passages he found himself inspired to paint this concupiscence, the entanglements of this woman who sought happiness in illicit pleasures, but could not find it there, who sought again and again and never found it.

Cry out then by abstaining from going, by repressing in thy heart this worldly concupiscence; hold on with a strong and persevering cry unto the ears of the Savior, that Jesus may stand still and heal thee.

A LITIGIOUS MAN Goes to law as men do to bad houses, to spend his money and satisfy his concupiscence of wrangling.

Thus the beauty of a woman, in the opinion of these writers, consists in those physical qualities which arouse a man's concupiscence.

[1905]"He hath scorned all money, bribes, gifts, upright otherwise and sincere, hath inserted himself to no fond imagination, and sustained all those tyrannical concupiscences of the body, hath lost all his honour, captivated by vainglory."