Why are there four winds and seven seas? What do these numbers represent?

Which rhetorical device in this excerpt from g.k. chestertons the fallacy of success

Which excerpt from “the girl who silenced the world for five minutes” supports suzuki’s argument that she is “losing [her] future”? coming here today, i have no hidden agenda. losing my future is not like losing an election or a few points on the stock market. and now we hear about animals and plants going extinct every day – vanishing forever. i'm only a child, yet i know we are all in this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal.

What is the author's purpose in both patrick henry's speech and thomas paines common sense