<span>That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those, who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy, will be at last bestowed by time.</span>
Question 1 - both are overly greedy
question 2 - the author made the James character somewhat of a hoarder
Answer:
B
Explanation:
The idea that only the brave will succeed on difficult quests is not a theme in the Hobbit because the opposite is very nearly true.
The main character, Bilbo Baggins, is not particularly brave and was indeed nearly cowardly in several occasions. Despite not being a brave individual, Bilbo was able to save his companions in several instances and was constantly learning from his mistakes.
Answer:Exploring three generations of the men in his family -- his father and his two uncles, his own two brothers, and his two sons -- Bret Lott spins a sweeping true saga of the ties that bind. With quiet grace and his trademark talent for finding powerful revelations in the most unlikely places, master novelist Lott delivers a bracingly personal and honest memoir that confronts the often inexpressible complexities of contemporary maleness. Fathers, Sons, and Brothers describes not only the ways men and boys relate to one another but also how their lives evolve over decades, endlessly imitative yet varied. In the end, these essays constitute a celebration of humanity, regardless of gender -- of joy and sorrow, of intimacy and distance, of lingering secrets and universal truths.
Explanation:
(A) because in the first stanza he is lonely then he surrounded with daffodils
