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From the sketch here given it will be seen, that our good grandmothers differed considerably in their ideas of a fine figure, from their scantily dressed descendants of the present day. A fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. Nor were they the less admired by the gentlemen in consequence thereof. On the contrary, the greatness of a lover's passion seemed to increase in proportion to the magnitude of its object—and a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a Low-Dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. Certain it is, that in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen - - The reason of which I conclude to be, either that the hearts of the gentlemen have grown larger, or the persons of the ladies smaller — this however is a question for physiologists to determine.

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Writing under the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker Washington Irving aimed his potent satire at as diverse topics as political rivals such as Thomas Jefferson to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately:

A fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a Low-Dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen

Writing under the name of 'Diedrich Knickerbocker', Washington Irving aimed his political satire, at as diverse topics as political rivals such as; Thomas Jefferson, to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately.

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So, punctuation marks are very important in writing a sentence without which a sentence does not have a clear meaning.

Writing under the name of 'Diedrich Knickerbocker', Washington Irving aimed his political satire, at as diverse topics as political rivals such as; Thomas Jefferson, to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately.

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Punctuation was added to the excerpt indicated so that it is possible to establish coherence and cohesion in the text.

A text without punctuation is prevented from providing a clear and understandable message, presenting a confusing and incoherent narrative. For this reason, in the excerpt above, commas were used to mark pauses in the text that must be taken into account when reading, in addition, commas were used to separate one sentence from another. The semicolon was used to express a longer pause and to show that a thought was previously completed, but not enough for the paragraph to be completed. The period at the end of the paragraph was used to show that the message has been fully completed and the paragraph has been completed.

i used to know but i learned it a long time ago sorry

explanation:

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.