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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' — the title itself launches the irony.
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From A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
The essay is the paradigm of sustained verbal irony, maintaining a reasonable, benevolent tone while proposing monstrous acts, indicting English policy and Irish complacency alike.
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The proposer's calm, reasonable tone establishing his credentials as a thoughtful projector.
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