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Identify the speaker: “I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, and I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.”

Identify: In this view, the philosophers and writers of the Romantic Age 1800s were led to a conclusion by using emotions that through the creation they could go beyond the material world to experience and be at one with the Creator. Nature was an emotional experience rather than a logical, scientific experience. They believed that there was a spark of the divine in every human being and supported the abolition of slavery and the rights of women. They urged people to trust their own inner instincts and to be individualists.    

  Identify the title of the quote: . . .several testified that the Shape of the prisoner did oftentimes very grievously pinch them, choke them, bite them, and afflict them, urging them to write their names in a Book, which the sad specter called Ours…It was testified that at the examination of the prisoner before the magistrates, the bewitched were extremely tortured. If she did but cast her eyes on them, they were presently struck down . . .

Identify the title: Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominanting in all their being.

 Identify the term: A form of government with no separation of church and state, this holy commonwealth was set up by churchmen, who claimed they derived power directly from God. It was a dominant form of government in Puritan communities and during the witch trials. 

Identify the title for the quote: “In pace requiescat.”

Identify the speaker: “The plan which I adopted, and the one by which I was most successful, was that of making friends of all the little white boys whom I met in the street. As many of these as I could, I converted into teachers. With their kindly aid, obtained at different times and different places, I finally succeeded in learning to read. When I was sent on errands, I always took my book with me . . .”

Match the description with the correct answer: Art or Entertainment.

Identify the speaker:”He always has a company of twenty-five or thirty cavalry, with sabres drawn and held upright over their shoulders. They say this guard was against his personal wish, but he let his counselors have their way. The party makes no great show in uniform or horses. Mr. Lincoln on the saddle generally rides a good-sized, easy-going gray horse, is dress’d in plain black, somewhat rusty and dusty, wears a stiff black hat, and looks about as ordinary in attire, &c, as the commonest man.”

Identify the title where the following is found: grass of many years over a moss-grown burial stone with the face beneath turned to dust.