ve a snare to your
feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask
yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition
comports with those warlike preparations which cover our
water and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to
a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so
unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to
win back our love?"

PATRICK HENRY: _Speech in the Virginia Convention_,
1775

3. List the concrete details given below. What effect have they? What
elements give the idea of the extent of the Colonies' fisheries? Are
the sentences long or short? Does their success justify them?

"Look at the manner in which the people of New England have
of late carried on the whale fishery. Whilst we follow them
among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them
penetrating into the deepest frozen recess of Hudson's Bay
and Davis' Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath
the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the
opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the
antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the South.
Falkland Islands, which seemed too remote and romantic an
object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and
resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than
the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst
some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the
coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their
gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is
vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to
their toil. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the
activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of
English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of
hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by,
this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but
in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of
manhood."

EDMUND BURKE: _Conciliation with America_, 1775

4. Is the following clear? What kind of sentence is it? What minor
phrase? Is this phrase important? Why? Why did Lincoln repeat this
sentence, practically with no change, twelve times in a single speech?

"The sum of the whole is that of our thir