Embankment refers to a long artificial bank built to retain water, or to support a road.
Usually in business letters, italic formatting will not be used to indent any section, since italics are almost always reserved for emphasizing certain parts of the document.
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." (A) contains a hyperbole.
In literature, a hyperbole is a stylistic exaggeration. It is used to give a dramatic effect to a statement.
Here, the hyperbole is: "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe." There are of course prices that the U.S. are going to refuse to pay, burdens they will not afford to carry, etc., but by exaggerating these commitments, Kennedy sounds more resolute and more persuasive.
Deists living during the European enlightenment believed that humans can only know god through the observance of the natural world and reason, not through miracles or revelations.
