A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to Their Parents Or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Country by Jonathan Swift

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to Their Parents Or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Country

Jonathan Swift

23 pages first pub 1729 (editions) user-added

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A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and pu...

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