Answer:
The style of this declaration is rhetorical – that is, it sets up a series of questions which it then proceeds to answer through logical arguments. Behind these answers lie counter-arguments that do not show in the text, but which any reader of the day would have recognized.
Explanation:
Steeper, they are shorter of course than lakes
First, it is spelled servile. Second, here is your sentence!
The boy was servile and weak, intolerably vain and ambitious.
