disimprovements

Updated: May 18, 2025

As to the first: I cannot see how this kingdom is at any height of improvement, while four parts in five of the plantations for 30 years past, have been real disimprovements; nine in ten of the quick-set hedges being ruined for want of care or skill.

Jonathan Swift - The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 : Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1