Represent, to do with your national independence? are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice,
embodied in that declaration of independence, extended to us? and am i, therefore, called upon to bring our humble
offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting
from your independence to us?
would to god, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these
questions! then would my task be light, and my burden easy and delightful. for who is there so cold, that a nation's
sympathy could not warm him? who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude, that would not
acknowledge such priceless benefits? who so stolid and selfish, that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs
of a nation's jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? i am not that man. in a case like that,
the dumb might eloquently speak, and the "lame man leap as an hart."
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it contains specific details that support a variety of different ideas.
it begins with broad statements and ends with more specific ones.
it uses clear examples that are easily understood by all readers.
it starts with a very simple idea and builds to a much grander idea.
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Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next

Which poems include the theme that memories of beautiful natural places benefit the people who recall them? "to spring" and "lines written in early spring" "to autumn" and "to a butterfly" "to summer" and "the human seasons" "i wandered lonely as a cloud" and "lines on a beautiful spring in a village"

Which underlined word in the sentence is a demonstrative adjective? these brown shoes fit my feet very well.