Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number IV . Shall a band of ten or twelve thousand robbers, who are this day fifteen hundred or two thousand men less in strength than they were yesterday, conquer America, or subdue even a single state? The thing cannot be, unless we sit down and suffer them to do it. In this excerpt, Paine uses a rhetorical device to encourage readers to
Read the quotation from The Crisis, Number IV . “It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.” Which phrase best describes the “cause” that Paine refers to?
Which sentence in the paragraph is structured differently than the others?
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