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Complete the sentences based on your reading of this excerpt from "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift:
For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of Papists, with whom we are yearly over-run, 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 principal breeders" of the nation refer to
in the last line, the writer talks about the "good Protestants"

If anyone has English Plato too I could really use the help on some other questions

Answer 1

1&2

Step-by-step explanation:

1. the Catholic population in poverty

He says that they principal breeders are the Papists. This means they are the Catholics. He uses the word Papists because it is a demeaning term for people who follow the Pope. The Pope is the spiritual leader of the Catholic church. He calls them principal breeders because he believes all they do is have children.

2. criticize the growing influence of the catholic population

By saying good Protestants, he is inferring that the Catholics are not good. Instead of staying where they'd be forced to financially support "an episcopal curate", they leave.