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BASIC CONCEPTS Which type of drug must always be swallowed without chewing?

Without a king, the Laws maintain their sway, While honour bids each generous heart obey. Be ours the task the ambitious to restrain, And this great lesson teach—that kings are vain; That warring realms to certain ruin haste, That kings subsist by war, and wars are waste: The above passage is from ______________________ by ____________________________________________ .

For having lived long, I have experienced many Instances of being oblig’d, by better Information or fuller Consideration, to change Opinions even on important Subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow the more apt I am to doubt my own Judgment and to pay more Respect to the Judgment of others. The above passage is from ______________________ by ____________________________________________ .

The French philosopher of the Enlightenment Jean-Jacques Rousseau advocated individual liberty: Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

When Equiano purchases his freedom from his master, he recieves a formal certificate of freedom, otherwise known as his _______________________.

In 1774, he overcame personal setbacks when he arrived in America, carrying a letter from Benjamin Franklin who declared him to be “an ingenious worthy young man.”

O, ye nominal Christians! Might not an African ask you Learned you this from your God, who says unto you, Do unto all men as you would have them do unto you?The above passage is from ______________________ by ____________________________________________ .

By Nature’s self in white array’d,She bade thee shun the vulgar eye,And planted here the guardian shade,And sent soft waters murmuring by;   Thus quietly thy summer goes,   Thy days declining to repose. The above passage is from ______________________ by ____________________________________________ .

In his letter to Ezra Stiles in which Franklin, near death, writes: “. . . it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble. What is the question, the “it” to which he is referring?

He helped Thomas Paine be released from a French prison where he was imprisoned for protesting the execution of King Louis the XIV.