Practice Typing
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 publick - Swift, Jonathan ยท 80 words
Many other advantages might be enumerated. For instance, the addition of some thousand carcasses in our exportation of barreld beef. the propagation of swines flesh, and improvement in the art of making good bacon, so much wanted among us by the great destruction of pigs, too frequent at our tables; which are no way comparable in taste or magnificence to a well grown, fat yearling child, which roasted whole will make a considerable figure at a Lord Mayors feast, or.
Connecting to start your practice session...
More from 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 publick
It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country,...
52 words
I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the...
80 words
But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only for the children of professed...
60 words
As to my own part, having turned my thoughts for many years upon this important subject, and...
59 words
There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary...
59 words
The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I...
75 words