Read the excerpt and answer the question. How horrible is the Uncleanness, Mortality, if not Murder, that the Ships are guilty of that bring great Crouds
of these miserable Men, and Women. Methinks, when we are bemoaning the barbarous Usage of our Friends
and Kinsfolk in Africa: it might not be unseasonable to enquire whether we are not culpable in forcing the
Africans to become Slaves amongst our selves. And it may be a question whether all the Benefit received by
Negro Slaves, will balance the Accompt of Cash laid out upon them, and for the Redemption of our own
enslaved Friends out of Africa. Besides all the persons and Estates that have perished there.
What is the meaning of this excerpt from Sewall's "The Selling of Joseph"?
White people had done immeasurable damage to Africans
Too much beneft was to be gained to stop enslaving Africans.
Too many people had been killed in the attempt to trade Africans.
White people could redeem themselves for the purchase of Africans.

i think that the best option for this question is

d)to persuade readers that a prince must eradicate the royal family of a conquered principality.

i hope this .

read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.

in my opinion i think it was not excessive at all. the maids turned against the queen in his absence, how could he ever trust them again? if he let them go they would surely spread the news of the suitor's deaths, which is much too risky. as for the suitors, they were selfish, rude, and greedy. the god's had apparently marked them for death, meaning odysseus made their death come faster.