What is the speaker's purpose? to describe the events he has witnessed over the past few months to entertain his audience with a patriotic story to inform his audience about the latest news from great britain to persuade his audience to revolt against the british

To entertain his audience with a patriotic story, is your answer

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emerson essentially believes that traveling is overrated. he supports this perspective through an initial focus on "the idea" of places like italy, england, and egypt, and the fascination of "educated americans" with them. he argues that those places only took on the grand, majestic ideas that they represent because "they who made england, italy, or greece venerable in the imagination did so by sticking fast where they were, like an axis of the earth." yes, those places are grand, but only because they so clearly represent the places that they are. the art and culture of italy, england, and egypt is authentic, and therefore significant.

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