... it is not improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt to censure such a practice (although indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty; which, I confess, hath always been with me the strongest objection against any project, how... Selections from the Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift - Page 222by Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1884 - 284 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 314 pages
...themselves: and besides, it it not improbable that some scrupulous people might lie apt to Censure such n practice, (although indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty ; which, I contcsn, hat always been with me the strongest objection against any project, how wHI soever intended.... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 334 pages
...with humble submission, be a loss to the public, because they soon would become breeders themselves : and besides, it is not improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt to censure suoh a practice, (although indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty ; which, I confess,... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 598 pages
...become breeders themselves: and besides, it is not improbable that some scrupulous people might b« apt to censure such a practice, (although indeed very...cruelty ; which, I confess, has always been with me the strong, est objection against any project, how well soever intended. But in order to justify my friend,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 376 pages
...with humble submission, be a loss to the public, because they soon would become breeders themselves; and besides, it is not improbable, that some scrupulous...a little bordering upon cruelty, which, I confess hath always been with me the strongest objection against any project, how well soever intended. But... | |
| Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 252 pages
...recommend buying the children alive, then dressing them hot from the knife, as we do roasting pigs. " It is not improbable that some scrupulous people might...(although indeed very unjustly,) as a little bordering on cruelty, which, I confess, has always been with me the strongest objection against any project,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1861 - 810 pages
...be a loss to the public, because they soon would become breeders themselves : and besides, it is Lot improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt...objection against any project, how well soever intended. j But in order to justify my friend, he confessed that this expedient was put into his head by the... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - Authors, Irish - 1882 - 622 pages
...difficulties : and chiefly because " some scrupulous persons might be apt to censure such a practice (though indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty:...objection against any project, how well soever intended." As he concludes with an earnest, but modest enforcement of his scheme, he is careful to add that he... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - Authors, Irish - 1882 - 622 pages
...difficulties : and chiefly because " some scrupulous persons might be apt to censure such a practice (though indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty...objection against any project, how well soever intended." As he concludes with an earnest, but modest enforcement of his scheme, he is careful to add that he... | |
| Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - Authors, English - 1886 - 634 pages
...objections, "it is not improbable that some scrupulous persons might bo apt to censure such a practice as a little bordering upon cruelty ; which, I confess,...objection against any project, how well soever intended." For the rest, he protests the entire disinterestedness of his own plan. " I have no children," he declares,... | |
| Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - Authors, English - 1886 - 632 pages
...objections, " it is not improbable that some scrupulous persons might be apt to censure such a practice as a little bordering upon cruelty ; which, I confess,...with me the strongest objection against any project, bow well soever intended." For the rest, he protests the entire disinterestedness of his own plan.... | |
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