Функциональная стилистика. Максакова С.П - 12 стр.

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MAN. Well, I don’t intend to get killed if I can help it. [Still more formidably] Do you
understand that? [He locks the door with a snap].
RAINA [disdainfully] I suppose not. [She draws herself up superbly, and looks him straight in
the face, saying, with cutting emphasis] Some soldiers, I know, are afraid of death.
MAN [with grim good humor] All of them, dear lady, all of them, believe me. It is our duty to
live as long as we can. Now, if you raise an alarm--
RAINA [cutting him short] You will shoot me. How do you know that I am afraid to die?
MAN [cunningly] Ah; but suppose I don’t shoot you, what will happen then? A lot of your
cavalry--the greatest blackguards in your army--will burst into this pretty room of yours and
slaughter me here like a pig; for I'll fight like a demon: they shan’t get me into the street to
amuse themselves with: I know what they are. Are you prepared to receive that sort of company
in your present undress? [Raina, suddenly conscious of her nightgown, instinctively shrinks, and
gathers it more closely about her neck. He watches her, and adds, pitilessly] Hardly presentable,
eh? [She turns to the ottoman. He raises his pistol instantly, and cries] Stop! [She stops]. Where
are you going?
RAINA [with dignified patience] Only to get my cloak.
MAN [crossing swiftly to the ottoman and snatching the cloak] A good idea! I'll keep the cloak;
and you’ll take care that nobody comes in and sees you without it. This is a better weapon than
the revolver: eh? [He throws the pistol down on the ottoman].
4) Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,
conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so
conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We
have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave
their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate – we can not consecrate – we can not hallow –
this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above
our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say
here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here
to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather
for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead
we take increased devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in
vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of
the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
5) Marine Parks
The issue of whether we should allow marine parks to stay open has been widely debated in our
community recently. It is an important issue because it concerns fundamental moral and
economic questions about the way we use our native wildlife. A variety of different arguments
have been put forward about this issue. This essay will consider arguments for having marine
parks and point to some of the problems with these views. It will then put forward reasons for the
introduction of laws which prohibit these unnecessary and cruel institutions.