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Maybe we should re-evaluate "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public," presented by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift's proposal argued with ironical solemnity the economic wisdom of the sale of year-old infants by the poor to the rich for table consumption...
...went down soft, slushy, oozy." This Keats, who loved food, pretty girls and hiking, does not match the stereotype of the romantic poet; he is far closer to Bernard Shaw's description of him as "a merry soul, a jolly fellow, who could not only carry his splendid burthen of genius, but swing it around, toss it up and catch it again, and whistle a tune as he strode along...
...Professor Morison decided to apply the alfresco, learn-by-doing methods that Francis Parkman used for his History of France in the New World. In the summer of 1939 Morison and some friends bought the barkentine, Capitana, which was "near enough to Columbus' larger ships in rig and burthen to enable us to cross the ocean under conditions very similar to those of his day. . . ." In the Capitana they explored the European end of Columbus' routes, then headed back across the Atlantic. "Our crossing from Gomera to Trinidad was approximately on the route of [Columbus'] Third Voyage...
Calhoun's answer to the President's toast as reported by you follows: "The Union":-"Next to our Liberty most dear! May we remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States and distributing equally the benefits and burthen of the Union...
...burthen of many addresses was-and Dr. Norman Edwin Titus of Columbia repeated it when he was inducted as the College's president-the warning that artificial sun lamps, vibration machines (electrical or mechanical) and all the things which the skilled physical therapist uses, can do more harm than good if they are not controlled and practiced by graduate physicians trained in physical therapy...