# The literature of kissing Author: Bombaugh, Charles C. (Charles Carroll), 1828-1906 Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71456 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+literature+of+kissing+Bombaugh&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary From the time of the first kisses recorded in the book of Genesis,—the kiss with which Jacob imposed upon the credulity of his blind old father and defrauded his brother of the blessing intended for him, and that of Jacob the lover when he met Rachel at the well,—to the present hour, the custom of kissing has been so universally honored in the observance that one would naturally expect to find in any well-regulated library a formal treatise upon its manifold phases and expressions. Yet, with the exception of a few insignificant monographs of the seventeenth century, the curious inquirer would find upon the shelves nothing specially devoted to a custom with which all of human kind, from th... ## Chapters - [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/14/index.md) - [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/17/index.md) - [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/15/index.md) - [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/20/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/16/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/21/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/18/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/22/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/10/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/13/index.md) - [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/19/index.md) - [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/11/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/12/index.md) - [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-kissing-71456/chapters/23/index.md)