 I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many under the present distresses of the kingdom, but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders....  The Works - Page 42by Jonathan Swift - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 506 pages
...there will remain a hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand, for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident...twenty thousand children of poor parents annually borq. The question therefore is, Flow this number shall be reared and provided for? which, as I have... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 508 pages
...there will remain a hundred and seventy tjiousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident...have already said, under the present situation of a/iairs, is utterly impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed. For we can neither employ them... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 334 pages
...there will remain a hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident...year. There only remain a hundred and twenty thousand childreu of pooi parents annually born. The question therefore is, How Uiis number shall be reared... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 376 pages
...there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remain an hundred and twenty-thousand children of poor parents annually born : the question therefore is,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 540 pages
...there will remain a hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand, for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident...parents annually born. The question therefore is, How tibis number shall be reared and provided for ? which, as I have already said, under the present situation... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 pages
...kingdom ;) but this being granted, there will remain 170,000 breeders. I again subtract 50,000 for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remain 120,000 children of poor parents annually born. The question therefore is, how tins number shall be... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 pages
...this being granted, th ire will remain 1 TO.OnO in subtract 30,000 lor 1 Uo.se women who miscarry, r or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remains 120,000 children of poor parents annually born. The question therefore is, how this number... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1861 - 810 pages
...kingdom ;) but this being granted, there will remain 170,000 breeders. I again subtract 50,000 for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remains 120,000 children of poor parents annually born. The question therefore is, how this number... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 522 pages
...there will remain a hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand, for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident...under the present situation of affairs, is utterly 1mpossible by all the methods hitherto proposed. For we can neither employ them in handicraft or agriculture... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1884 - 334 pages
...kingdom ; but this being granted, there will remain 170,000 breeders. I again subtract 50,000 for those whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remain 120,000 children of poor parents annually born. The question therefore is, how this number shall be... | |
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