...very knowmg American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healtby child, well nursed, is, ata year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome...and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassée or a ragoût. I do therefore humbly offer it to public considération that of thé hundred...

...his suggestion. He has inquired into the facts; and finds that a well-grown child, of a year old, is a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and he makes no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. The charge for nourishing...

...his suggestion. He has inquired into the facts; and finds that a well-grown child, of a year old, is a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or builed ; and he makes no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. The charge for...

...with the tread and gayety of an ogre." "I have been assured," says he in the " Modest Proposal," " by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London,...stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt it will equally serve in a ragout." And taking up this pretty joke, as his way is, he argues it with...

...circumstantials with the utmost gravity. He had, he says, consulted an American friend, who told him ' that a young healthy child well nursed is, at a year...wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked or boiled'. Whereupon he recommends the practice of rearing babies for the market; setting forth in minute detail...

...nursery with the tread and gayety of an ogre.* "I have been assured," says he in the "Modest Proposal," "by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in...stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt it will equally serve in a rago&t." And * " LONDON, April 10th, 1713. " Lady Masham's eldesl boy is...

...now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection. I have been assured by a very knowing American of...it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration that of the 120,000 children already computed,...

...them beneficial to the Publick. The grimness of its irony will appear from a selected sentence or two :—"I have been assured by a very knowing American...and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasse or ragoust. I do therefore humbly offer it to publick consideration that of the hundred and...

...everything, to stick to what is so much the interest of the public as well as her own. ..." — Journal, American of my acquaintance in London, that a young...stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt it will equally serve in a ragout." And taking up this pretty joke, as his way is, he argues it with...

...nation. There is nothing like it in the realm of literature. " I have been assured," says Swift, " by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London,...young, healthy child, well nursed, is, at a year old, most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make...