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,...

I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the...

But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only for the children of professed...

As to my own part, having turned my thoughts for many years upon this important subject, and...

There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary...

The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I...

I am assured by our merchants, that a boy or a girl, before twelve years old, is no saleable...

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy...

I do therefore humbly offer it to publick consideration, that of the hundred and twenty thousand...

Infants flesh will be in season throughout the year, but more plentiful in March, and a little...

I have already computed the charge of nursing a beggars child in which list I reckon all cottagers,...

As to our City of Dublin, shambles may be appointed for this purpose, in the most convenient parts...

A very worthy person, a true lover of his country, and whose virtues I highly esteem, was lately...

But in order to justify my friend, he confessed, that this expedient was put into his head by the...

Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who...

For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of Papists, with whom we...

Secondly, The poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made...

Thirdly, Whereas the maintainance of a hundred thousand children, from two years old, and upwards,...

Fifthly, This food would likewise bring great custom to taverns, where the vintners will certainly...

Sixthly, This would be a great inducement to marriage, which all wise nations have either...

Many other advantages might be enumerated. For instance, the addition of some thousand carcasses in...

Supposing that one thousand families in this city, would be constant customers for infants flesh,...

I can think of no one objection, that will possibly be raised against this proposal, unless it...

But, as to myself, having been wearied out for many years with offering vain, idle, visionary...

After all, I am not so violently bent upon my own opinion, as to reject any offer, proposed by wise...

I profess in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavouring...