| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: is an error of no very great magnitude, that men should raise a
clamour about it. I shall only say, it would not be amiss, if
that author would henceforth be more tender of other men's
reputations as well as his own. It is well there were no more
mistakes of that kind; if there had, I presume he would have told
me of them with as little ceremony.
There is one objection against Mr. Partridge's death, which I
have sometimes met with, though indeed very slightly offered,
That he still continues to write almanacks. But this is no more
than what is common to all that profession; Gadbury, Poor Robin,
Dove, Wing, and several others, do yearly publish their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: drive him on, and allure him with the pleasure which he receives from
seeing, hearing, touching, perceiving him in every way. And therefore he
is delighted to fasten upon him and to minister to him. But what pleasure
or consolation can the beloved be receiving all this time? Must he not
feel the extremity of disgust when he looks at an old shrivelled face and
the remainder to match, which even in a description is disagreeable, and
quite detestable when he is forced into daily contact with his lover;
moreover he is jealously watched and guarded against everything and
everybody, and has to hear misplaced and exaggerated praises of himself,
and censures equally inappropriate, which are intolerable when the man is
sober, and, besides being intolerable, are published all over the world in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: remark.
After supper Orde led the way up two flights of narrow stairs to his
own room. This was among the gables, a chamber of strangely
diversified ceiling, which slanted here and there according to the
demands of the roof outside.
"Well," said he, "I've made up my mind to-day to go in with you. It
may not work out, but it's a good chance, and I want to get in
something that looks like money. I don't know who you are, nor how
much of a business man you are or what your experience is, but I'll
risk it."
"I'm putting in twenty thousand dollars," pointed out Newmark.
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