Read the passage.

excerpt from "letter to his son" by robert e. lee

duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. do your duty in all things, like the old puritan. you cannot do more, you should never wish to do less. never let me and your mother wear one gray hair for any lack of duty on your part.

select the word and phrase from the drop-down menus to correctly complete the sentence. it could be inferred that the word sublimest means in the paragraph, based on the context clue

answers choices
most uncommon
most diffuclt
most noble

in the paragraph, based on the context clue

"do your duty in all .

"like the old puritans"

"word in our language"

"you cannot do more"

Which themes are portrayed in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich? praskovya fedorovna came of a good family, was not bad looking, and had some little property. ivan ilyich might have aspired to a more brilliant match, but even this was good. he had his salary, and she, he hoped, would have an equal income. she was well connected, and was a sweet, pretty, and thoroughly correct young woman. to say that ivan ilyich married because he fell in love with praskovya fedorovna and found that she sympathized with his views of life would be as incorrect as to say that he married because his social circle approved of the match. he was swayed by both these considerations: the marriage gave him personal satisfaction, and at the same time it was considered the right thing by the most highly placed of his associates. so ivan ilyich got married. conforming to social conventions criticism of a middle class lifestyle the destructive impact of loneliness struggling to face reality the necessity of companionship