[1620] being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before in their preparation (as may be
remembered, by that which went before), they had now no friends to welcome them, nor inns to entertain or
refresh their weather-beaten bodies, no houses or much less towns to repair to, to seek for succor. it is
recorded in scripture as a mercy to the apostle and his shipwrecked company, that the barbarians showed
them no small kindness in refreshing them, but these savage barbarians, when they met with them (as after
will appear) were readier to fill their sides full of arrows then otherwise. and for the season it was winter, and
they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce
storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search an unknown coast. besides, what could
they see but hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men? and what multitudes there
might be of them they know not.

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Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)