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Explain the satire or Swift's true meaning of the following phrases from paragraph 6:

1. two hundred thousand couples whose wives are breeders
2. they can very seldom pick up a livelihood by stealing till they arrive at six years old

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The true meaning of the following phrases used by the narrator is as follows:

  • The wives of two thousand couples are described as breeders which means pregnant women.
  • The people of Ireland became thieves at the age of six years old.

Who writes a Modest Proposal?

A modest proposal is an essay writing that was written by the author named Jonathan Swift in the year 1729.

From the satires used by the author in A Modest Proposal, the true meaning is as follows:

  • There were more than thousands of couples whose wives were pregnant and were not able to provide food to their infants.  
  • The Irish people became burglars at the age of only six years in order to survive in harsh poverty.

Therefore, the meaning of the phrases used in the essay is explained as above.

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