27. Select whether the following exert is a form of ethos, pathos, or logos:
MR. PRESIDENT: It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful trut
men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eye
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the f
the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace3 them
Trust it not, sir, it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss.5 Ask yourselves how th
waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?7 Have we shown ours
deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation,8 the last arguments to which kings resort. I as
gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all
meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so lon
that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in eve
supplication? 10 What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceiv
Excert from Give me Liberty or Give me Death, speach delivered by Patrick Henry 1775
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