Question

What type of evidence is used in this excerpt from "The Crisis, No.1" by Thomas Paine? I once felt all that kind of anger, which a man ought to feel, against the mean principles that are held by the Tories: a noted one, who kept a tavern at Amboy, was standing at his door, with as pretty a child in his hand, about eight or nine years old, as I ever saw, and after speaking his mind as freely as he thought was prudent, finished with this unfatherly expression, "Well! give me peace in my day." Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some time or other finally take place, and a generous parent should have said, "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." A. empirical evidence B. emotional evidence C. logical evidence D. anecdotal evidence

Answer 1

The correct answer to the question: What type of evidence is used in this excerpt from "The Crisis, No. 1" by Thomas Paine? Would be, D: Anecdotal evidence.

Step-by-step explanation:

The reason for this being the answer comes from the excerpt itself. Thomas Paine is arguing, in his pamphlet "The Crisis, No.1" against the Tories, Americans who still supported the cause of the British and accepted British colonial rule over the right of those colonies to seek their independence. Because these Americans were one of the major reasons why the revolution was not much more successful, philosophers, and thinkers, like Paine, dedicated themselves to show these people the need for change and the importance that it had that Torries would change their way of behaving towards the cause for independence. In this particular excerpt from his pamphlet, Paine uses anecdotal evidence, the case of one particular Torie and his unacceptable behavior towards the cause of independence, especially in light of his not thinking about the future for his child, but only his desire to be left alone and in peace, to make his point that if the future of the colonies were left in the hands of these people, then, changes would be impossible and there would be no future for the coming generations.