 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...  A Manual of English Prose Literature.. - Page 364by William Minto - 1881 - 548 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Deane W. Curtin, Lisa M. Heldke - 1992 - 412 pages
...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... | |
 | Andre Breton - 1997 - 384 pages
...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...have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only for the children of professed beggars;... | |
 | Caroline Postelle Clotfelter - 1996 - 356 pages
...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...have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only for the children of professed beggars;... | |
 | Sean Dunne - 1957 - 496 pages
...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...have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. the whole number of infants at a certain age who are born of parents in effect as little able to support... | |
 | Gloria Levine, Princeton Review (Firm) - 2003 - 271 pages
...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... | |
 | Sarah Jordan - 2003 - 308 pages
...make these people 'sound and useful Members of the Commonwealth, would deserve so well of the Publick, as to have his Statue set up for a Preserver of the Nation' " (Ixiii-Ixiv; Zirker, of course, is quoting from Swift's "Modest Proposal"). MG Jones, in The Charity... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 2004 - 290 pages
...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...have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only for the children of professed beggars,... | |
 | Princeton Review (Firm) - 2004 - 269 pages
...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...have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. . . . I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 2005 - 419 pages
...cheap, and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the commonwealth would serve so well of the public as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. 343 344 Jonathan Swift But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only for the children... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 pages
...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 Commonwealth, would deserve so well of the Publick, as to have his Statue... | |
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