What does this passage most likely imply about the people of the kingdom?
Read the passage from "The Lady, or the Tiger."
The institution was a very popular one. When the
people gathered together on one of the great trial
days, they never knew whether they were to witness a
bloody slaughter or a hilarious wedding. This element
of uncertainty lent an interest to the occasion which it
could not otherwise have attained. Thus, the masses
were entertained and pleased, and the thinking part of
the community could bring no charge of unfairness
against this plan, for did not the accused person have
the whole matter in his own hands?
O The people are thoughtful and well-educated.
The people often disagree with the verdict.
The people are willing participants in the trials.
The people admire their semi-barbaric king.

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)