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    A Modest Proposal In Plain and Simple English (Translated)
    A Modest Proposal In Plain and Simple English (Translated)
    A Modest Proposal In Plain and Simple English (Translated)
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    A Modest Proposal In Plain and Simple English (Translated)

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    In 1729, Jonathan Swift proposed the most satirical answer to poverty ever written: we sell poor children as food to rich people! The essay is as hilarious today as it was hundreds of years ago...if you can understand it!

    f you have struggled in the past reading the satire, then BookCaps can help you out.

    We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookCaps
    Release dateApr 3, 2013
    ISBN9781301907878
    A Modest Proposal In Plain and Simple English (Translated)
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    We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.Visit www.bookcaps.com to see more of our books, or contact us with any questions.

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      A Modest Proposal In Plain and Simple English (Translated) - BookCaps

      About This Series

      The Classic Retold series started as a way of telling classics for the modern reader—being careful to preserve the themes and integrity of the original. Whether you want to understand Shakespeare a little more or are trying to get a better grasps of the Greek classics, there is a book waiting for you!

      Originally published in 1729

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      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 work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.

      Those who walk through this great town, or make journeys into the country, are often saddened by the sight of female beggars crowding the roads and doors of houses; they are often followed by three to six children, all dressed in rags, and all begging for money from every passerby. These mothers, instead of making money through honest work, have to spend all their time begging for money to support their helpless children. When those children grow up, they become thieves because they cannot get work, or they leave their dear native country to go and fight for the Pretender in Spain, or they sell themselves in slavery in the West Indies.

      I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.

      I think everyone agrees that having so many children being carried around by, or following, their mothers, and frequently their fathers, is a very great additional burden on the kingdom at this difficult time. So anyone who could think of a fair, cheap and easy plan whereby these children could become useful members of society would deserve so much thanks from the public that he should have a statue put up as somebody who saved the nation.

      But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only for the children of professed beggars: it is of a much greater extent, and shall take in the whole number of infants at a certain age, who are born of parents in effect as little able to support them, as those who demand our charity in the streets.

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