What point is twain making in the prayer’s second sentence, “with them – in spirit – we also go forward from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe”? the citizens prefer peace over war. the citizens don’t want to do any actual fighting themselves. the citizens are ready to die for their country.

How did philip ii view the religious rights of protestant citizens in his empire

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

Match the following events to the effects they produced. fall of constantinople italian wars hundred years’ war paved the way for the entry of renaissance ideas of peace and renewal arrowright caused an influx of classical greek and roman knowledge and texts into europe arrowright led to the introduction of renaissance thought and ideas to france arrowright