Which phrase from the proposal is an example of understatement? A. Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about
that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or
maimed ...
B. And the money will circulate among our selves, the goods being
entirely of our own growth and manufacture,
C. Igrant this food (children] will be somewhat dear, and therefore
very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured
most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children.
O D. Then as to the females, ſeating children] would, I think, with
humble submission, be a loss to the publick, because they sahn
would become breeders themselves...