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Swift left Ireland in amidst the Glorious Revolution. He desired to gain religious and political power in England. Swift believed it was his duty to help maintain stability between political and religious forces in Ireland as well as England. He was an advocate for Anglicanism, which had to resist the forces of Roman Catholicism and Protestant Dissenters.
He began his political career as Whig, but rejected their association with the dissenters. However he rejected the Tory belief of the divine right of Kings, and thought that the ultimate political power of England should rest in the hands of the people. It was then maintained by the relationship between Parliament and Kings that protected individual rights and resisted tyranny. Political, economic, and religious struggles plagued England and Ireland in the mid 18th-Century. Is a modest proposal used appropriately in the following sentence?
In another year, stories about the strange new face of an A-list actress might draw chortles and cackles. Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at. The king was struck with horror at the description I had given him of those terrible engines, and the proposal I had made. He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away. It was not an exalted niche to fill in life, but at least she had learned to fill it to perfection, and her ambitions were modest.
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