the money will circulate among our selves, the goods being entirely of our own
allow to sheep, black cattle, or swine, and my reason is, that these children
parents, or the parish, or wanting food and raiment for the rest of their
eminent French physician, that fish being a prolifick dyet, there are more
persons of quality and fortune, through the kingdom, always advising the mother
streets. per annum, the nation’s stock will be thereby encreased fifty thousand
[13] In agreement with Johnson, Donald C. Baker points out the similarity between both authors' tones and use of irony. Supposing that one thousand families in this city, would be constant customers
something solid and real, of no expence and little trouble, full in our own
In his book A Modest Proposal for America (2013), statistician Howard Friedman opens with a satirical reflection of the extreme drive to fiscal stability by ultra-conservatives. years old, and upwards, cannot be computed at less than ten shillings a piece
groat to their fortunes, cannot stir abroad without a chair, and appear at a
child just dropt from its dam, may be supported by her milk, for a solar year,
charge of nutriments and rags having been at least four times that value. But, as to myself, having been wearied out for many years with offering vain,
bastard children, alas! I have reckoned upon a medium, that a child just born will weigh 12 pounds, and
"[I]f one regards the Modest Proposal simply as a criticism of condition, about all one can say is that conditions were bad and that Swift's irony brilliantly underscored this fact". now be taken to buy only our native goods, would immediately unite to cheat and
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It is true, a
exact upon us in the price, the measure, and the goodness, nor could ever yet
They cannot
repine to give ten shillings for the carcass of a good fat child, which, as I
creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put
A Modest Proposal also targets the calculating way people perceived the poor in designing their projects. tables; which are no way comparable in taste or magnificence to a well grown,
Infant’s flesh will be in season throughout the year, but more plentiful
A very worthy person, a true lover of his country, and whose virtues I highly
Therefore I repeat, let no man talk to me of these and the like expedients,
the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of
A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift. time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow
the gibbet, at four hundred crowns. This I freely own, and was indeed one principal
acquaintance assured me from frequent experience, that their flesh was
Read Online A Modest Proposal Paper A Modest Proposal – Excelling Paper You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the
annually about twenty thousand carcasses; and the rest of the kingdom (where
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