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English, 17.04.2022 18:50 karenjjensen

Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal.” Then as to the females, it would, I think, with humble submission, be a loss to the publick, because they soon would become breeders themselves: And besides, it is not improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt to censure such a practice, (although indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty, which, I confess, hath always been with me the strongest objection against any project, how well soever intended.

Which phrase from the excerpt is an example of verbal irony?

a loss to the publick
some scrupulous people
indeed very unjustly
strongest objection against

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