Which quotation shows that the narrator changed his mind?
A. Never any young adventurer's
misfortunes, I believe, began sooner, or
continued longer than mine.
B I was most inexpressibly sick in body and
terrified in mind.
C began now seriously to reflect upon
what I had done
D All the good counsels of my parents, my
father's tears and my mother's
entreaties, came now fresh into my mind

. a function is a relation in which each input has only one output. in the relation , y is a function of x, because for each input x (1, 2, 3, or 0), there is only one output y. x is not a function of y, because the input y = 3 has multiple outputs: x = 1 and x = 2.

the answer is:

to persuade readers that a conquering prince must destroy a former republic if he hopes to hold it.

in the excerpt from "the prince," the author niccolò machiavelli suggests that to take possession of a city and endure the control over it, it is necessary to destroy it first. otherwise, people who have known freedom will eventually turn against the new rulers and fight back to recover their power.