Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.

Much like old cars and trucks, buses often pass through a dealership where they can be bought for a price or at auction.

Much of this first construction was destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but the university retains the Quad, the old Chemistry Building ( which is not in use and has been boarded up since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ), and Encina Hall ( the residence of Herbert Hoover, John Steinbeck, and Anthony Kennedy during their times at Stanford ).

Much of the old city of Trapani dates from the later medieval or early modern periods ; there are no extant remains of the ancient city.

Much to Piazzolla's dismay, his father decided that he was not old enough to go along, although the following year he did play a cameo role as a young paper boy in Gardel's movie El día que me quieras.

Much of the negative impact of estrogen that they found was related to the fact that most of the women in the Women ’ s Health Initiative study were far past the menopause and up to 79 years old .” Dr. Rubinow continues by explaining that “ there are now a large number of studies that demonstrate what has been called the timing hypothesis.

Much of the old town Takoma Park was incorporated into the Takoma Park Historic District ; listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Much of its historic heritage remains intact, and today there are always renovations going on in the city to preserve the many old buildings, fortifications, churches and statues for later generations.

Much of the subject matter of old school hip hop centers around partying and having a good time.

Much of that, but not all, later became Old US 12 — the " old " designation came about when I-94 was built parallel to it — and also was called Red Arrow Highway after a World War I army division.

Much of the Safe as Milk material was honed and arranged by the arrival of 20-year – old guitar prodigy Ry Cooder, who had been brought into the group after much pressure from Vliet.

Much of the old railway right-of-way has been converted to the " Bermuda Railway Trail " for hiking and biking.

Much of the videotaped ABC program material from the 1960s and early 1970s was erased as part of an economy policy instituted in the late 1970s, in which old program tapes were surrendered for bulk erasure and reuse.

Much of Hornsey was built up in Edwardian times, but the tower of the original parish church still stands in its ancient graveyard in Hornsey High Street, at the centre of the old village.

Much of the old village of Roehampton still remains dominated by large detached houses.

Much of the site is now occupied by Crane Park, in which the old Shot Tower, mill sluices and blast embankments can still be seen.

Much culture has arisen around Bowling Green's hills with an old reservoir, hospital and civil war fort on one, much of Western Kentucky Universities campus on another, Hobson Grove, a historic Italian Renaissance style civil war era plantation estate on another and yet another civil war fort on another.

Much of this history is depicted in the Heritage Station Museum, which is located in the old Georgia and Florida Railway train station on Ward Street in downtown Douglas.

Much later, after Clayton had grown to include the Dividings, two of the old Cherokee trails became the main roads for Clayton and the county: U. S. 441 and U. S. 76.

Much of the exposed rock in the area is dated to the Precambrian era ( greater than 542 million years old ).

* Much of the old train system has been converted to trails for biking or Snow Mobile riding.

Much of Oulton consists of old, expensive houses.

Much of the Royal Mile is laid with granite Sett ( paving ) | setts, as seen in this view looking east down the High Street past the old Tron Kirk.

( Much of the text can be found at " Vivarchive " and at " Rawlinson End Book ") In the 1970s he recorded numerous sessions for BBC Radio 1's John Peel show which elaborated, with a mixture of eloquence and irreverence, on the weird and wonderful adventures of the inebriated and blimpish Sir Henry Rawlinson, his dotty wife Great Aunt Florrie, his " unusual " brother Hubert ( who, for speed, stature and far-seeing, habitually goes on stilts ), old Scrotum the wrinkled retainer, Mrs E, the rambling and unhygienic cook, and many other inhabitants of the crumbly Rawlinson End, plus its environs.

Much of the old city was destroyed in the ensuing battles between German and the Red Army soldiers.

Much of the motoring industry at the time noted that the adopted style did not translate well to the more compact Holden.

Much of the development of the mandolin from Neapolitan bowl-back to the flat-back style ( actually, gently rounded and carved like a violin ) is attributable to Orville Gibson ( 1856 – 1918 ).

Much of the success of the classic Brubeck quartet was due to the juxtaposition of his airy style over Brubeck's sometimes relatively heavy, polytonal piano work.

Much of the ragtime recorded in this period is presented in a light-hearted novelty style, looked to with nostalgia as the product of a supposedly more innocent time.

* Scottish feudal barons bear the style The Much Honoured.

Much later, in the 1920s and 1930s, Kurt Weill took a more extreme form of the Berlin operetta style and used it in his operas, operettas, and musicals.

" had composed a brilliant new score ( his most subtle yet ) to a scintillating libretto .... Iolanthe is the work in which Sullivan's operetta style takes a definite step forward, and metamorphosis of musical themes is its characteristic new feature .... By recurrence and metamorphosis of themes Sullivan made the score more fluid ...." Much of Sullivan's " fairy " music pays deliberate homage to the incidental music written by Felix Mendelssohn for a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Much of hippie style had been integrated into mainstream American society by the early 1970s.

Much of this work combines Mackintosh's own designs with those of his wife, whose flowing, floral style complemented his more formal, rectilinear work.

Much of the band ’ s enduring and unfashionable reputation stems from their emergence in the early 1980s as the most commercially successful band of the neo-progressive rock movement, an unexpected revival of the progressive rock musical style that had fallen out of critical favour in the mid-1970s.

Much like Angel, he is highly proficient in various forms of martial arts, and his typical fighting style blends karate, kung fu, and others.

Much of the comparison was directed at Weiland's vocal style drawing similarities to that of Eddie Vedder's.

Much of Monk's style was developed during his time at Minton's, when he participated in after-hours " cutting competitions " which featured many leading jazz soloists of the time.

Much of it is actually the remains of a building remodeled in English Georgian Revival style in 1924 for Harris Hammon, who purchased the estate at Point Breeze as built in 1850 by Henry Becket, a British consul in Philadelphia.

" Much more " cartoony " than the more realistic artwork favored at the time, Parobeck's art was a pioneering example of the " animation " style that would become quite popular with Batman: The Animated Series.

Much of Chester's architecture dates from the Victorian era, many of the buildings being modelled on the Jacobean half-timbered style and designed by John Douglas, who was employed by the Duke as his principal architect.

Much of the interior is in Norman style and this is considered to be the best example of 11th – 12th century church architecture in Cheshire.

Beginning in the 1970s, and continuing to this day, artists such as George Frayne ( Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen ), keep ( mostly ) traditional boogie style alive with songs such as " Rock That Boogie ", " Too Much Fun ", " Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar ", and others.

Much of the traditional klezmer repertoire was written by professional klezmer musicians in the style of their region or tradition, and a lot of co-territorial music such as non-Jewish folksongs, especially Romanian music ( mainly from Moldavia ), as well as Ukrainian music and Ottoman music, and the musics of other minorities living in the same areas as Jews in Southeastern Europe such as Crimean Tatars.

Much of Penn's architecture was designed by the architecture firm of Cope & Stewardson, whose principal architects combined the Gothic architecture of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge with the local landscape to establish the Collegiate Gothic style.

Much of Richard Elfman's 1980 cult film Forbidden Zone is a live action pastiche of the early Fleischer Studios style.

Much of TCNJ is built in Georgian colonial architecture style on 289 tree-lined acres.

Much pottery was found, including examples of a peculiar style, with decorative designs, mostly floral, and also considerable deposits of obsidian.