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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
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Does "and hope and courage in the contrast which thirty-eight populous and prosperous States offer to the thirteen States" mean ...?
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Does "and hope and courage in the contrast which thirty-eight populous and prosperous States offer to the thirteen States, weak in everything except courage and the love of liberty, that then fringed our Atlantic seaboard" mean "and to find hope and courage in the contrast which thirty-eight populous and prosperous States offer to the thirteen States, weak in everything except courage and the love of liberty, that then fringed our Atlantic seaboard"?
(2) Offer what? Does it mean 38 states offer the hope and courage" to 13 states (who were then weak in everything)?
(3) So what "does the contrast" mean? the properous condition of the 38 is in comparison to the poor 13?
Context:
Our people will not fail at this time to recall the incidents which accompanied the institution of government under the Constitution, or to find inspiration and guidance in the teachings and example of Washington and his great associates, and hope and courage in the contrast which thirty-eight populous and prosperous States offer to the thirteen States, weak in everything except courage and the love of liberty, that then fringed our Atlantic seaboard.
Does "and hope and courage in the contrast which thirty-eight populous and prosperous States offer to the thirteen States, weak in everything except courage and the love of liberty, that then fringed our Atlantic seaboard" mean "and to find hope and courage in the contrast which thirty-eight populous and prosperous States offer to the thirteen States, weak in everything except courage and the love of liberty, that then fringed our Atlantic seaboard"?
(2) Offer what? Does it mean 38 states offer the hope and courage" to 13 states (who were then weak in everything)?
(3) So what "does the contrast" mean? the properous condition of the 38 is in comparison to the poor 13?
Context:
Our people will not fail at this time to recall the incidents which accompanied the institution of government under the Constitution, or to find inspiration and guidance in the teachings and example of Washington and his great associates, and hope and courage in the contrast which thirty-eight populous and prosperous States offer to the thirteen States, weak in everything except courage and the love of liberty, that then fringed our Atlantic seaboard.
Top answer
1. Yes. 2.
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- Yes.
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- Offer contrast.
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1. Yes.
2. Offer contrast.
3. The contrast is set out in the previous paragraph:
I will not attempt to note the marvelous, and, in great part, happy contrasts between our country as it steps over the threshold into its second century of organized existence under the Constitution, and that weak but wisely ordered young nation that looked undauntedly down the first cent
2. Offer contrast.
3. The contrast is set out in the previous paragraph:
I will not attempt to note the marvelous, and, in great part, happy contrasts between our country as it steps over the threshold into its second century of organized existence under the Constitution, and that weak but wisely ordered young nation that looked undauntedly down the first cent
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