| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: sight, then let the young hounds go.[14] The result of letting slip
young hounds, possessed of all the requisite points and full of
pluck,[15] is that the sight of the hare will make them strain too
violently and pull them to bits,[16] while their frames are as yet
unknit; a catastrophe against which every sportsman should strenuously
guard. If, on the other hand, the young hounds do not promise well for
running,[17] there is no harm in letting them go. From the start they
will give up all hope of striking the hare, and consequently escape
the injury in question.[18]
[13] For points see the same authority: the harrier, p. 59; the
foxhound, p. 54.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: and yon, prays St. Bridget's prayer and the rest, fasts on this
day and on that, makes confession here, and makes confession
there, questions this man and that, and yet finds no peace. He
does all this with great effort, despair and disrelish of heart,
so that the Scriptures rightly call such works in Hebrew Avenama,
that is, labor and travail. And even then they are not good
works, and are all lost. Many have been crazed thereby; their
fear has brought them into all manner of misery. Of these it is
written, Wisdom of Solomon v: "We have wearied ourselves in the
wrong way; and have gone through deserts, where there lay no way;
but as for the way of the Lord, we have not known it, and the sun
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne: wintry cold, that the mother was about to tap on the window-pane
with her thimbled finger, to summon the two children in, when
they both cried out to her with one voice. The tone was not a
tone of surprise, although they were evidently a good deal
excited; it appeared rather as if they were very much rejoiced at
some event that had now happened, but which they had been looking
for, and had reckoned upon all along.
"Mamma! mamma! We have finished our little snow-sister, and she
is running about the garden with us!"
"What imaginative little beings my children are!" thought the
mother, putting the last few stitches into Peony's frock. "And it
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