Trip 12 of 5400 collection book38
The seeds of insinuation seasonably sown upon the warm luxuriant soil of youth could hardlybook13 fail of shooting up into such intemperate desires as he wanted to produce especially when cultured and cherished in her unguarded hours by that stimulating discourse which familiarity admits and the looser passions ingrafted in every breast are apt to relish and excuse. He seldom or never erred in his observations on the human heart. This would have been a difficulty soon removed had the scene of the transaction been laid in the metropolis of England where passengers are plied in the streets by clergymen who prostitute their characters and consciences for hire in defiance of all decency and law but in the kingdom of Hungary ecclesiastics are more scrupulous in the exercise of their function and the objection was or supposed to be altogether insurmountable so that they were fain to have recourse to an expedient with which after some hesitation our sheadventurer was satisfied.... read all
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