A Modest Proposal (Literary Casebook Series)

Jonathan Swift, Charles Allen Beaumont


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3.99 · 46 ratings · 130 pages · Published: 1729

A Modest Proposal  (Literary Casebook Series) by Jonathan Swift, Charles Allen Beaumont
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 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 employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of wo

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