Word: burthen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...