Which excerpt from Thomas Paine’s Common Sense best represents an attempt to appeal to ethos to persuade the reader?
A. To talk of friendship with those in whom our reason forbids us to have faith . . . is madness and folly.
B.O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
C. The infant state of the Colonies, as it is called, so far from being against, is an argument in favor of independence.
D. I am not induced by motives of pride, party, or resentment to espouse the doctrine of separation andindependence . . .