| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: me victory over the island of Hispaniola, which covers six
hundred leagues, and I conquered it and made it tributary;
and I discovered many islands dwelled in by Caribals or
eaters of men's flesh, and also Jamaica which I named
Santiago, and three hundred and thirty leagues of Continent
from south to west--''
He recited his rights, dignities, tithes, emoluments,--
``whereto I have the sacred word of the Sovereigns.'' Then
came the heirship. All upon Don Diego and the heirs of
his body, with lavish provision for the younger son, ``having
great qualities and most dear to me,'' and for the brothers,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Chronicles 14: 15 And it shall be, when thou hearest the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry-trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle; for God is gone out before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.'
1_Chronicles 14: 16 And David did as God commanded him; and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
1_Chronicles 14: 17 And the fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.
1_Chronicles 15: 1 And David made him houses in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
1_Chronicles 15: 2 Then David said: 'None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites; for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of the LORD, and to minister unto Him for ever.'
1_Chronicles 15: 3 And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto its place, which he had prepared for it.
1_Chronicles 15: 4 And David gathered together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites;
1_Chronicles 15: 5 of the sons of Kohath: Uriel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twenty;
1_Chronicles 15: 6 of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty;
1_Chronicles 15: 7 of the sons of Gershom: Joel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and thirty;
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: have me down in the country, to lead the life of a nun, lest I
should dishonour him or bring him to ruin; as if he had not been
ten times worse every way, with his betting-book, and his gaming-
table, and his opera-girls, and his Lady This and Mrs. That - yes,
and his bottles of wine, and glasses of brandy-and-water too! Oh,
I would give ten thousand worlds to be Mss Murray again! It is TOO
bad to feel life, health, and beauty wasting away, unfelt and
unenjoyed, for such a brute as that!' exclaimed she, fairly
bursting into tears in the bitterness of her vexation.
Of course, I pitied her exceedingly; as well for her false idea of
happiness and disregard of duty, as for the wretched partner with
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