Select the correct text in the passage.
Which sentence in this excerpt from Thomas Paine's Common :
dicates
that Great Britain protected the American colonies for mutual gain?
But she [Britain) has protected us, say some. That she hath engrossed us is true, and defended the continent at our expense as
well as her own IS
admitted, and she would have defended Turkey from the same motive, viz., the sake of trade and dominion.
We have boasted the protection of Great Britan, without
Alas! we have been long ed away by ancient prejudices and made large sacrifices to superstition.
considering.
that her motive was interest not attachment; that she did not protect us from our enemies on our account, but from her enemies on her
own
account, from those who had no quarrel with us on any other account, and who will alvays be
our enernies on the same account. Let Britain wave her
pretensions to the continent, or the continent throw off the dependence, and we should be at peace with France and Spain were they at war with at Britain.
The miseries of Hanover last war, ought to warn us against connections.