Ihave of late,—but wherefore i know not,—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours modern day text.

These lines are spoken by Hamlet in Act II scene ii of the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare.

Explanation:

This excerpt is a quote from the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, Act II scene ii where the young prince Hamlet is in conversation with his former university friends Guilderstern and Rosencrantz.

In these lines, he is telling them of his recent feeling of loneliness. He laments the loss of interest in anything that the world can offer, telling them that he sees earth as "no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors". The melancholic feeling that has overtaken him after the death of his father has made him dead inside, unable to feel love for anything.

the correct answer is option d. the nature of democracy. on november 19, 1863, president abraham lincoln delivered his famous gettysburg address in gettysburg, pennsylvania. in his speech, rather than focusing on details of the war (soldiers, casualties, aftermath of battle), lincoln invoked the very nature of democracy, that power ultimately comes from the people, when stating, “government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish”. these words mean that democracy is a government by the people (citizens) in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by the people or by their elected representatives for the benefit of all citizens. the survival of democracy in the united states is one of the reasons why this speech so significant today.

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