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  2. A Modest Proposal - Wikipedia

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    A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, [1] commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift in 1729.

  3. Jonathan Swift - Wikipedia

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    "A Modest Proposal", perhaps the most notable satire in English, suggesting that the Irish should engage in cannibalism. (Written in 1729) "An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen" "A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding": Full text: Bartleby.com "A modest address to the wicked authors of the present age.

  4. Gulliver's Travels - Wikipedia

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    Edited with an introduction by Claude Rawson and notes by Ian Higgins. This title contains the major works of Swift in full, including Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Tale of a Tub, Directions to Servants and many other poetic and prose works. Also included is a selection of contextual material, and criticism from Orwell to Rawson.

  5. Opinion - A modest proposal for Elon and Vivek: Improve what ...

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    Dear Elon and Vivek, Congratulations on the formation of the Department of Government Efficiency! I know that making government work more efficiently has been of great interest to both of you, and ...

  6. Joe Matthews’ ‘modest’ proposal: Give high-speed rail to ...

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    My proposal solves all that by consolidating every single state and local homeless housing program under one single state agency: the California High-Speed Rail Authority.

  7. A Tale of a Tub - Wikipedia

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    A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697 and published in 1704.The Tale is a prose parody divided into sections of "digression" and a "tale" of three brothers, each representing one of the main branches of western Christianity from the 17th-century English perspective.

  8. Candidates promised a bigger child tax credit. Will that ...

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    A proposal in Congress this year would have done just that, as well as make other modest changes to the tax credit. ... Why the blowout jobs report is tanking stocks and sending yields spiking.

  9. The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford - Wikipedia

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    "A Modest Proposal" "Caveat Emptor" The Bostonians, and Other Manifestations of the American Scene "Life is No Abyss" "The Hope Chest" "Polite Conversation"