Jonathan Swift — "I calculate that the charge of nursing a beggar's child (in which list I reckon …"

I calculate that the charge of nursing a beggar's child (in which list I reckon all cottagers, labourers, and four-fifths of the farmers) to be about two shillings per annum, rags included; and I believe no gentleman would repine to give ten shillings for the carcase of a good fat child, which, as I have said, will make four dishes of excellent nutritive meat.
Jonathan Swift — Jonathan Swift Early Modern · Gulliver's Travels

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A Modest Proposal

Date: 1729

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