Select the correct toxt in the passago.
Which two sentences in the excerpt from Common Sense by Thomas Paine indicate that Great Britain protected the American colonies for
mutual pain?
But she (Britain) has protected
us, say some. That she hath engrossed us is true, and detended the continent at our expense as well as her own
admitted, and she would have defended Turkey from the same motive, viz., the sake of trade and dominion.
Alast we have been long led away by ancient prejudices and made large sacrifices to superstition. We have boasted the protection of Great
Britain, without considering, that her motive was interest not attachment; that she did not protect us from our enemies on our account, but from on
her enemies on her own account, from those who had
no quarrel with us on any other account, and who will always be our onemies on the same
account. Let Britain wave her pretensions to the continent, or the continent throw off the dependenco, and we should be at peace with France
and Spain were they at war with Britain. The miseries of Hanover last war, ought to warn us against connections.
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