Read the excerpt from "To the Public” by William Lloyd Garrison.I swear, while life-blood warms my throbbing veins,Still to oppose and thwart, with heart and hand,Thy brutalising sway—till Afric’s chainsAre burst, and Freedom rules the rescued land,—Trampling Oppression and his iron rod: Such is the vow I take—SO HELP ME GOD!
Read the excerpt from "To the Public” by William Lloyd Garrison.Oppression! I have seen thee, face to face,And met thy cruel eye and cloudy brow;But thy soul-withering glance I fear not now—For dread to prouder feelings doth give placeOf deep abhorrence! Scorning the disgraceOf slavish knees that at thy footstool bow
Read the excerpt from "To the Public” by William Lloyd Garrison.Of course, there were individual exceptions to the contrary. This state of things afflicted, but did not dishearten me.
Read the excerpt from "To the Public” by William Lloyd Garrison.I swear, while life-blood warms my throbbing veins,Still to oppose and thwart, with heart and hand,Thy brutalising sway—till Afric’s chainsAre burst, and Freedom rules the rescued land,—Trampling Oppression and his iron rod: Such is the vow I take—SO HELP ME GOD!
Read the excerpt from Walden by Henry David Thoreau. At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house. I have thus surveyed the country on every side within a dozen miles of where I live. In imagination I have bought all the farms in succession, for all were to be bought, and I knew their price. I walked over each farmer’s premises, tasted his wild apples, discoursed on husbandry with him, took his farm at his price, at any price, mortgaging it to him in my mind; even put a higher price on it,—took everything but a deed of it,—took his word for his deed, for I dearly love to talk,—cultivated it, and him too to some extent, I trust, and withdrew when I had enjoyed it long enough, leaving him to carry it on. This experience entitled me to be regarded as a sort of real-estate broker by my friends.
Read the excerpt from "To the Public” by William Lloyd Garrison.I am aware, that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.
Read the excerpt from "To the Public” by William Lloyd Garrison.During my recent tour for the purpose of exciting the minds of the people by a series of discourses on the subject of slavery, every place that I visited gave fresh evidence of the fact, that a greater revolution in public sentiment was to be effected in the free states—and particularly in New-England—than at the south. I found contempt more bitter, opposition more active, detraction more relentless, prejudice more stubborn, and apathy more frozen, than among slave owners themselves.
Read the excerpt from "To the Public” by William Lloyd Garrison.I determined, at every hazard, to lift up the standard of emancipation in the eyes of the nation, within sight of Bunker Hill and in the birth place of liberty.
Which of the following is a rhetorical appeal to reason?
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