Which sentence in this excerpt from common sense by thomas paine supports the claim that the american colonies could thrive independently from britain?
(1.) i have heard it asserted by some, that as america hath flourished under her former connection with great britain that the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. (1.) nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. (2.)we may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk that it is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty.( 2.) (3.)but even this is admitting more than is true, for i answer roundly, that america would have flourished as much, and probably much more, had no european power had any thing to do with her.(3) (4.)the commerce, by which she hath enriched herself, are the necessaries of life, and will always have a market while eating is the custom of europe. (4.)

Why does patton seem undaunted about eating his rodent soup

Read the excerpt from julius caesar, act 1, scene 1. marullus. wherefore rejoice? what conquest brings he home? what tributaries follow him to rome to grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? you blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless35 things! o, you hard hearts, you cruel men of rome, knew you not pompey? many a time and oft have you climbed up to walls and battlements, to towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, your infants in your arms, and there have sat40 the livelong day, with patient expectation, to see great pompey pass the streets of rome. which summary of the passage is the best? marullus asks a lot of questions, such as, “why celebrate? what has caesar done? who is following him to rome? don’t you remember pompey? ” then he says that everyone is cruel because they do not remember pompey. they forget how they praised him and would climb to the highest places, carrying their children, just to catch a glimpse of him. marullus regrets that the people are celebrating caesar and is insulted that they forgot how they used to praise pompey. marullus thinks that the people should celebrate caesar the way they used to celebrate pompey, and that they should be in awe of caesar’s greatness. marullus remembers how the people climbed walls, battlements, towers, windows, and even chimney tops to see the great pompey.

Marking brainliestwhy does lysander stop loving hermia and begin loving helena? the magical flower juice was accidentally put in his eyes, making him fall in love with the first person he saw. hermia acts jealous and mean, causing lysander to rethink his feelings for her. helena confides hermia's secret plan to runaway with demeetrius. the magical flower juice has the opposite effect than what was expected.