 IT is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors crowed with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning...  The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift... - Σελίδα 23των Jonathan Swift - 1812Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Caroline Postelle Clotfelter - 1996 - 356 σελίδες
...great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin-doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three,...strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants. . . . I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or... | |
 | Leslie Clarkson, Margaret Crawford - 2001 - 338 σελίδες
...'very near as bad' as the later famine of 1740— 1.9 Dean Swift described Dublin streets, 'crowded with beggars of the female sex followed by three,...children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for alms'. Even worse, people were 'every day dying and rotting by cold and famine, filth and vermin, as... | |
 | Gloria Levine, Princeton Review (Firm) - 2003 - 271 σελίδες
...from "A Modest Proposal" derives from the Latin word bulla, which means "bubble"? "These mothers. . . are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants" "I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 2004 - 290 σελίδες
...great town,0 or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three,...livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling 0 to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of... | |
 | Kai Wiegandt, Anonym - 2007 - 57 σελίδες
...who walk through this great town or travel in the country, when they see the streets [...] crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three,...rags and importuning every passenger for an alms." (Swift 1997:591) It is to be noted that melancholy is a feeling one is least tempted to attribute to... | |
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...the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars (mendiants) of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six...in rags and importuning every passenger for an alms (aumone). I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of children in the arms,... | |
 | Charles Creighton - 1965 - 936 σελίδες
...great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabin doors crowded with beggars of the female sex followed by three,...rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms." Having ventilated his project for the children, he proceeds to show that "their elders are every day... | |
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