Which phrase from the proposal is an example of hyperbole?

a. i again subtract fifty thousand [babies), for those women who

miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the

year.

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 helpless infants.

c. (from which number i 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)

d. 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.