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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: occasion, is the chief design of this paper.
Gentlemen have begun already to make use of this conjunction to
compass their filthy purposes. They tell the ladies forsooth,
that it is only parting with a perishable commodity, hardly of so
much value as a callico under-petticoat; since, like its
mistress, it will be useless in the form it is now in. If the
ladies have no regard to the dishonour and immorality of the
action, I desire they will consider, that nature who never
destroys her own productions, will exempt big-belly'd women till
the time of their lying-in; so that not to be transformed, will
be the same as to be pregnant. If they don't think it worth while
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