(05.04 MC) Read the following excerpt carefully before you c…

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(05.04 MC) Reаd the fоllоwing excerpt cаrefully befоre you choose your аnswer. This excerpt is taken from a letter written by a father to his son. "I do not, therefore, so much as hint to you how absolutely dependent you are upon me; that you neither have nor can have a shilling in the world but from me; and that, as I have no womanish weakness for your person, your merit must and will be the only measure of my kindness. I say, I do not hint these things to you, because I am convinced that you will act right upon more noble and generous principles; I mean, for the sake of doing right, and out of affection and gratitude to me." This excerpt is ironic mainly because the writer