Which phrase from the proposal is an example of hyperbole?
o
a. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about
that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or
maimed it is very well known, that they are every day dying
as fast as can be reasonably expected.
b. [m]others instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood,
are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance
for their infants..
o
c. (from which number 1 subtract thirty thousand couple, who are
able to maintain their own children, (although i apprehend there
cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom).
o
d. i again subtract fifty thousand [babies), for those women who
miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the
year.