Being a lover of old English Literature, I stumbled across something I hadn't read in a long time. As I read it, I thought to myself; why keep such information to myself when I can bestow upon the minds of WTF, however shallow those minds are.
Some of the more illiterate members of this forum may claim that this essay is "teh gehy", however, you must trudge through the wording and read it for what it is.
Highlighting some of the finer points:
The version I have access to is not electronic and have therefore found an electronic version for you people to read: http://www.online-literature.com/swift/947/
Some of the more illiterate members of this forum may claim that this essay is "teh gehy", however, you must trudge through the wording and read it for what it is.
Highlighting some of the finer points:
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of papists, with whom we are yearly overrun, being the principal breeders of the nation as well as our most dangerous enemies; and who stay at home on purpose with a design to deliver the kingdom to the Pretender, hoping to take their advantage by the absence of so many good protestants, who have chosen rather to leave their country than stay at home and pay tithes against their conscience to an Episcopal curate.
The version I have access to is not electronic and have therefore found an electronic version for you people to read: http://www.online-literature.com/swift/947/