Read the following excerpt from robinson crusoe, in which crusoe decides to
leave england
i consulted neither father nor mother any more, nor so
much as sent them word of it, but leaving them to hear of it
as they might, without asking god's blessing or my father's,
without any consideration of circumstances or
consequences, and in an ill hour, god knows, on the 1st of
september 1651, i went on board a ship bound for london,
never any young adventurer's misfortunes, i believe, began
sooner, or continued longer than mine.
based on the context of this excerpt, what does the phrase "without asking
god's blessing convey about the time in which this story was written?
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a. it suggests that people of defoe's time were religious and usually
looked to god to them make decisions
o
b. it points out that the people of defoe's time considered their
parents to be rulers of their families in the same way god rules the
church
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c. it indicates that the people of defoe's time cared little for what
god would want them to do
d. it shows that the people of defoe's time asked for god's blessing

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human

  this riddles' answer is library.

  the "leaves" are a reference to the books' pages that the library contains; the branches are a network of libraries that connect multiple libraries' collections, resources, and items in a system of a common database, integrating them; the branches' organization are a useful management tool for coordinating the multiple collections many libraries have.

what are the main ideas?