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"By lessening the number of Papists among us," is the sentence which is directed against a particular social class in Ireland. Papists are known to be a sectarian term for the Roman Catholic Church's teaching, practices, and adherents. It is a actually a derogatory term used back then
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Answer: This excerpt has been written in A. first person point of view.
Explanation: In "A Modest Proposal", a satiric essay written by Jonathan Swift, the anonymous narrator, which is known as The Proposer, presents his own ideas, judgements and ironic suggestions about how to solve the problem of famine in Ireland. Moreover, as he narrates from a first person point of view, he makes use of the first person pronoun ("I"), such as in "I must confess the times require" and "I believe no gentleman would repine to give ten shillings for the carcass of a good fat child".