Click the highlighted selection from the text that provides the strongest evidence for the answer to Part A. (1) Reflect on things past, as wars, negotiations, factions, etc.: we enter so little into those interests that we wonder how men could possibly be so busy and concerned for things so transitory. (2) [L]ook on the present times, we find the same humor; yet wonder not at all. . . . (3) No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before. . . . (4) The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.

lihuliivi hili nilu lutaula previous 21 next end of semester test: english 12b submit test reader tools info- select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. read this excerpt and complete the sentences that follow a shropshire lad by ae housman (excerpt) when i was one-and-twenty i heard a wise man say "give crowns and pounds and guineas but not your heart away give pearls away and rubies but keep your fancy free." but i was one-and-twenty no use to talk to me when i was one-and-twenty i heard him say again, "the heart out of the bosom was never given in vain 'tis paid with sighs a plenty and sold for endless rue" and i am two-and-twenty. and oh, 'tis true, 'tis true the central theme of the poem is in the end, the poet the wise man's views. reset next