Question

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.

1.The "principal breeders" of the nation refer to.

2.In the last line, the writer talks about the "good Protestants" to .


1.(nonworking population,the catholic population in poverty,young men and women in poverty,foreigners living in ireland)

2.(mock the protestants for paying tithes(compulsory donations),criticize the growing influence of the catholic population,highlight the sufferings of Irish protestants,criticized protestants who abandoned their country)

Answer 1

Answer: "The Catholic population in poverty" for the first blank

"Criticize Protestants who abandoned their country" for the second

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

first of all, the person above is wrong..

i used her answer, got i wrong, and now i believe i have figured out the correct one.

her first answer, i believe, is correct.

So, space one is: the Catholic population in poverty

and the second one is: criticize protestants who abandoned their country