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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 a) nonworking population b) the catholic population in poverty c) young men and women in poverty d) foreigners living in ireland in the last line, the writer talks about the "good protestants" to a) mocking protestants for paying tithes b) criticize the growing influence of the catholic population c) highlight the sufferings of irish protestants d) criticize protestants who abandoned their country

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