When should you not use a dictionary?

30 points! answer plz! read this passage from the declaration of independence. prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. the english spoken in 1776 is considered late modern english, but some differences between jefferson's usage and our own are evident. what archaic expression does he use and how would you word the phrase in correct contemporary english?

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?

What is the best statement about carl sandburg poetry?