| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: Henrietta should you be ashamed to own a well-placed Love, or why
refuse to confide in me?"
"I am not ashamed to own it; said I taking Courage. I do not
refuse to confide in you or blush to say that I do love your
cousin Mr Musgrove, that I am sincerely attached to him, for it
is no disgrace to love a handsome Man. If he were plain indeed I
might have had reason to be ashamed of a passion which must have
been mean since the object would have been unworthy. But with
such a figure and face, and such beautiful hair as your Cousin
has, why should I blush to own that such superior merit has made
an impression on me."
Love and Friendship |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: containing them all, in order to improve the content ratios of Etext
to header material.
***
#STARTMARK#
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
March 4, 1865
Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath
of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended
address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat
in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper.
Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations
Second Inaugural Address |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: be doctor," said Jerry, and Tom Dunch, one of our carters, laughed.
'"That ain't right feeling of you, Tom," Jerry said, "seeing
how clever Doctor Break put away your thorn in the flesh last
winter." Tom's wife had died at Christmas, though Doctor
Break bled her twice a week. Doctor Break danced with rage.
'"This is all beside the mark," he said. "These good people are
willing to testify that you've been impudently prying into God's
secrets by means of some papistical contrivance which this
person" - he pointed to poor Rene - "has furnished you with.
Why, here are the things themselves!" Rene was holding a
trumpet in his hand.
|
