A Modest Proposal and Other Satires
What sights become a "melancholy object"?
for Swift and others who walk through the towns and cities
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From the text:
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 cabin 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.
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A Modest Proposal
