Jonathan Swift:

But as to myself, having been wearied out for many years with offering vain, idle, visionary thoughts, and at length despairing of success, I fortunately fell upon this proposal, which, as it is wholly new, so it hath something solid and real, of no expense and little trouble, full in our own power, and whereby we can incur no danger in disobliging England.

— Jonathan Swift Early Modern

Gulliver's Travels

Context

A Modest Proposal

Date / Period

1729

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm

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