| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: dishonour. Never was there a sweeter face, a finer form, or a
less amiable Heart than Louisa owned! Her child already
possesses the personal Charms of her unhappy Mother! May she
inherit from her Father all his mental ones! Lesley is at
present but five and twenty, and has already given himself up to
melancholy and Despair; what a difference between him and his
Father! Sir George is 57 and still remains the Beau, the flighty
stripling, the gay Lad, and sprightly Youngster, that his Son was
really about five years back, and that HE has affected to appear
ever since my remembrance. While our father is fluttering about
the streets of London, gay, dissipated, and Thoughtless at the
Love and Friendship |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: between the governed and the governors, that is, between the Congress
and the people. let a CONTINENTAL CONFERENCE be held, in the following manner,
and for the following purpose.
A committee of twenty-six members of Congress, viz. two for each colony.
Two Members from each House of Assembly, or Provincial Convention;
and five representatives of the people at large, to be chosen in the capital
city or town of each province, for and in behalf of the whole province,
by as many qualified voters as shall think proper to attend from
all parts of the province for that purpose; or, if more convenient,
the representatives may be chosen in two or three of the most populous
parts thereof. In this conference, thus assembled, will be united,
Common Sense |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: forced
the flood of water forth.
10 They with their vigorous strength pushed the well up on
high, and
clove the cloud in twain though it was passing strong.
The Maruts, bounteous Givers, sending forth their voice, in
the wild
joy of Soma wrought their glorious deeds.
11 They drave the cloud transverse directed hitherward, and
poured the
fountain forth for thirsting Gotama.
The Rig Veda |
