I think the answer your looking for is:
They embrace rules and order.
I would choose the first and the fourth excerpt from the list represented above.
These lines of the first exceprt best represent the needed idea :
<span>What port received thy vessel from the main?
Or comest thou single, or attend thy train?”
And here are the lines which do the same thing :
</span><span>The rage of hunger and of thirst repress'd:
To watch the foe a trusty spy he sent:
I'm pretty sure it helps!</span>
Answer:
D) object of a preposition
Explanation:
"Maria" is functioning as the object of the preposition “to" in this sentence.
In this sentence a noun functions as the object of a preposition by coming after a preposition.
By definition of what an object of a preposition is, it is any noun that comes right after a preposition.
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