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for applying the Inspection-principle to their Seraglio's: no not though I was were
to go through Constantinople again twenty times: notwithstanding the great
saving it would make in the article of Eunuchs, of whom one trusty one, in the
Inspection Lodge, would be as good as half a hundred. The price of that kind
of cattle could not fail of falling at least ten per cent, and the insurance upon
marital honour at least as much, upon the bare hint given of such an establishment,
in any of the Constantinople papers. But the mobbing I got at
Shoomlo, only for taking a peep at the town from a thing they call a
minaret (like our monument) in pursuance of invitation, has
cancelled any claims they might have had upon me for the dinner they gave me at the
Disan, had it been better than it was.
If the idea of some of these applications should have brought
a smile upon your countenance, it won't hurt you, my dear xxxx ,
nor should it hurt the principle. Your candour will prevent you from
condemning a great and new-invented engine of government, because
some of the purposes to which it is possible to apply it may appear
useless, or trifling, or mischievous, or ridiculous. Its great excellence
consists, in the great strength it is capable of giving to any institution
it may be thought proper to apply it to. If any perverse applications
should ever be made of it, they will lie, in this case as in others, at the
doors of those who make them. Knives however sharp, are very usefull things,
and for most purposes, the sharper the more usefull. I have no
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