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| "Being thus arrived in good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their kness and blessed God of Heavn who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean" |
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A. Bradford
B. when the Puritans made it to Cape Harbor safely
C. shows how spiritual the Puritans were |
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| " but Squanto continued with them and was their interpreter and was a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation." |
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A. Bradford
B. after the Puritans and the Indians made a peace treaty
C. Shows they are getting along fine |
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| " If ever a wife was happy in a man, Compare with me ye women if you can." |
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| "Yet by His gift is made thine own: There's wealth enough. I need no more, farewell my (money), farewell my store. The world no longer let me love." |
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| "Thus gone, amongst you I may live, And dead, yet speak and counsel give. Farewell my birds, farewell, adieu, I happy am, if well with you." |
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| " The devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold of them, and swallow them up;" |
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A. Edwards
B. God is mad for them being bad and they have done nothing to make it better
C. Even through everything they've done bad they still haven't gone to hell because God is keeping them out. |
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| "O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held in the hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed so much against you as against many of the damned in hell." |
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| "I went to take up my dead child in my arms to carry it with me, but they bid me let it alone: there was no resisting, but go I must and leave it." |
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A. Rowlandson
B. The narrator is holding her child, who has just died.
C. The narrator is no longer in contact with any of her children and has nothing to live for. |
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| "I cannot but take notice of the wonderful mercy of God to me in those afflictions, in sending me a Bible." |
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A. Rowlandson
B. An Indian gives the narrator a bible
C. It gives the narrator hope again |
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| "My intention being to inquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judge it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once but to fix it on one of them at a time; and, when I should be master of that, then should proceed to another.." |
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A. Franklin
B. Just made a list of 13 virtues for him to master.
C. Franklin first starts out to become morally perfect. |
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| "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." |
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| " I know not what course others take: but for me, give me liberty or give me death." |
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A. Henry
B. climax of his speech
C. saying he'd rather be dead than be living under Britain's rule |
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| "We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts." |
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| "The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country: but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." |
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A. Paine
B. very beggining of the story
C. saying that people who work when times are bad deserve love, not people who do it when its easy |
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| "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day that my child may have peace: and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty." |
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A. Paine
B. a father is speaking to his son about getting peace and that is what he should have said
C. shows the greediness of people because they would rather have peace in their time and trouble in their sons time |
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| "We gold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights... shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." |
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A. Jefferson
B. Declaration of Independence
C. explaining why they have the right to make the declaration |
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| "And for the support of this declaration, we mutually pledge to eace other our lives, iur fortunes, and our sacred honor." |
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A. Jefferson
B. Declaration of Independence
C. they will support the declaration no matter what |
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| "Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men... climates they inhabit." |
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A. de'Crevecoeur
B. What is an American?
C. individuals from other countries brought together makes an American. |
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| "I cannot say that I think you are very generous to the ladies; for whilst you are proclaiming peace and goodwill to men, emancipating all nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over wives." |
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A. Abigail Adams
B. Letter to John Adams
C. discussing womens rights amongst the other rights they are fighting for |
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| "Thou wilt find nothing here Of all that pained thee in the maunts of men, And made thee loathe thy life." |
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