 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 pages
...children, alas, too frequent among us ! sacrificing the poor jnnocent babes I doubt more to avoid tho expense than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the /• most savage and inhuman breast. (-f The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1861 - 810 pages
...bastard children, alas, too frequent among .us ! sacrificing the poor innocent babes I doubt more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move...and a half, of these I calculate there may be about 200,000 couple whose wives are breeders ; from which number I substract 30,000 couple who are able... | |
 | Patrick Lavelle - 1870 - 570 pages
...time it was written. " The number of souls," writes he, " in this kingdom being usually reckoned me million and a half, of these I calculate there may...couple whose wives are breeders ; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couple who are able to maintain their own. children (although I apprehend... | |
 | Patrick Lavelle - 1870 - 620 pages
..." The number of souls," writes he, " in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a ha}/, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred...couple whose wives are breeders ; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couple who are able to maintain their own children (although I apprehend there... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 516 pages
...bastard children, alas, too frequent among us ! sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move...couple whose wives are breeders ; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couple, who are able to maintain their own children, (although I apprehend... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 522 pages
...bastard children, alas, too frequent among us ! sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move...couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couple, who are able to maintain their own children, (although I apprehend... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1884 - 342 pages
...their children, alas, too frequent among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to avoid the expense than the shame ; which would move...and a half, of these I calculate there may be about 200,000 couple whose wives are breeders ; from which number I subtract 30,000 couple who are able to... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1884 - 334 pages
...their children, alas, too frequent among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to avoid the expense than the shame ; which would move...and a half, of these I calculate there may be about 200,000 couple whose wives are breeders ; from which number I subtract 30,000 couple who are able to... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1886 - 402 pages
...bastard children, alas ! too frequent among us ! sacrificing the poor innocent babes I doubt more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move...and a half, of these I calculate there may be about 200,000 couple whose wives are breeders ; from which number I subtract 30,000 couple who are able to... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1890 - 448 pages
...bastard children, alas, too frequent among us I sacrificing the poor innocent babes I doubt more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move...and a half, of these I calculate there may be about 200,000 couple whose wives are breeders ; from which number I subtract 30,000 couple who are able to... | |
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There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children... 
