Jonathan Swift — "But as to myself, having been wearied out for many years with offering vain, idl…"

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 — Jonathan Swift Early Modern · Gulliver's Travels

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A Modest Proposal

Date: 1729

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