A Modest Proposal@jonathanswift

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 1080 *** A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the 🧵

A Modest Proposal@jonathanswift

publick. by Dr. Jonathan Swift 1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabbin-doors crowded with 2/93

A Modest Proposal@jonathanswift

beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to 3/93