Recently I took a wonderful, liberating trip to the Mediterranean that made me feel more alive than I have felt in ages. During this trip I visited twenty cities, starting in Chania, Crete, and ending in Antalya, Turkey. My favorite, by far, was the ancient mountaintop city of Termessos. Termessos is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. It was abandoned over 1500 years ago and is now covered in ivy and moss as if nature seeks to reclaim it. The people who left it are long gone, but their legacy lives on in the relics and buildings they left behind. The tone of the paragraph comes both from the facts the author presents and the descriptive language he uses. Which of the following sentences contributes to the tone only through the facts it presents, and not also through descriptive language?

Reread this portion of the excerpted text from common sense. men of passive tempers look somewhat lightly over the offenses of britain, and, still hoping for the best, are apt to call out, come, we shall be friends again for all this. but examine the passions and feelings of mankind. bring the doctrine of reconciliation to the touchstone of nature, and then tell me, whether you can hereafter love, honor, and faithfully serve the power that hath carried fire and sword into your land? if you cannot do all these, then are you only deceiving yourselves, and by your delay bringing ruin upon posterity. your future connection with britain, whom you can neither love nor honor, will be forced and unnatural, and being formed only on the plan of present convenience, will in a little time fall into a relapse more wretched than the first. what key concept about the relationship between an abusive government and its citizens does paine want readers to understand? use evidence from the text to support your response. your response should be one to two complete paragraphs.