| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: likely to claim the hand of a dowerless maiden. I therefore
commit you, my dear Isabella, to the wisdom of Providence and to
your own prudence, begging you to lose no time in securing those
advantages, which the fickleness of your kinsman has withdrawn
from me to shower upon you.
"Mr. Ratcliffe mentioned Sir Edward's intention to settle a
considerable sum upon me yearly, for my maintenance in foreign
parts; but this my heart is too proud to accept from him. I told
him I had a dear child, who, while in affluence herself, would
never suffer me to be in poverty. I thought it right to intimate
this to him pretty roundly, that whatever increase be settled
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Travels and Researches in South Africa by Dr. David Livingstone: the original was typed in (manually) twice and electronically compared.
[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALIZED.
Some obvious errors have been corrected.]
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.
Also called, Travels and Researches in South Africa;
or, Journeys and Researches in South Africa.
By David Livingstone [British (Scot) Missionary and Explorer--1813-1873.]
David Livingstone was born in Scotland, received his medical degree
from the University of Glasgow, and was sent to South Africa
by the London Missionary Society. Circumstances led him to try to meet
the material needs as well as the spiritual needs of the people he went to,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: the search after truth, and cannot help entertaining such expectations of
the future as to believe that if, among the occupations of men as men, there
is any one really excellent and important, it is that which I have chosen.
After all, it is possible I may be mistaken; and it is but a little
copper and glass, perhaps, that I take for gold and diamonds. I know how
very liable we are to delusion in what relates to ourselves, and also how
much the judgments of our friends are to be suspected when given in our
favor. But I shall endeavor in this discourse to describe the paths I
have followed, and to delineate my life as in a picture, in order that
each one may also be able to judge of them for himself, and that in the
general opinion entertained of them, as gathered from current report, I
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