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Which sentence In this excerpt from Patrick Henry's famous "Illberty or death" speech at the Second Virginia Convention In 1775 emphasizes the
American colonists' efforts to avold war?
Speech to the Second Virginia Convention
by Patrick Henry (excerpt)
Let us not, I beseech you, sir, decelve ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We
have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have Implored Its
Interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parllament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced
additional violence and Insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the
throne! in vain, after these things, may we Indulge the fond hope of peace and reconcillation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish
to be free-If we mean to preserve Inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contendingIf we mean not basely to
abandon the noble struggle In which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious
object of our contest shall be obtalned-we must fight! I repeat It, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts Is all that Is left
us!
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Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich shows the human tendency to contemplate one’s past life? "but if that is so," he said to himself, "and i am leaving this life with the consciousness that i have lost all that was given me and it is impossible to rectify it—what then? " he lay on his back and began to pass his life in review in quite a new way. in the morning when he saw first his footman, then his wife, then his daughter, and then the doctor, their every word and movement confirmed to him the awful truth that had been revealed to him during the night. in them he saw himself—all that for which he had lived—and saw clearly that it was not real at all, but a terrible and huge deception which had hidden both life and death. this consciousness intensified his physical suffering tenfold. he groaned and tossed about, and pulled at his clothing which choked and stifled him. and he hated them on that account. he was given a large dose of opium and became unconscious, but at noon his sufferings began again. he drove everybody away and tossed from side to side. his wife came to him and said: "jean, my dear, do this for me. it can't do any harm and often . healthy people often do it." he opened his eyes wide. "what? take communion? why? it's unnecessary! " she began to cry. "yes, do, my dear. i'll send for our priest. he is such a nice man." "all right. very well," he muttered. when the priest came and heard his confession, ivan ilyich was softened and seemed to feel a relief from his doubts and consequently from his sufferings, and for a moment there came a ray of hope. he again began to think of the vermiform appendix and the possibility of correcting it. he received the sacrament with tears in his eyes.