| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: consequently in great force. So that if he fails to overmatch the
beasts by a zest for toil transcending theirs and plentiful
intelligence, the huntsman's labours are in vain.
[15] Or, "surrender themselves heedlessly to the ways of self-
seeking." But the phraseology here seems to savour of extreme
youth, or else senility.
[16] {enthumethenta}. Query, in reference to {enthumemata} above?
[17] Reading {andron}. For the vulg. {auton} see Schneid. ad loc., who
suggests {ton aston}.
[18] "Recognisable for the better."
[19] "They are not famous but infamous"; "the bad fare as their name
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Carter, Prince of Helium.
And I outdid myself that day to impress the fact upon the natives
of Kaol, for I wished to win a way into their hearts--and their city.
Nor was I to be disappointed in my desire.
All day we fought, until the road was red with blood and clogged
with corpses. Back and forth along the slippery highway the tide of
battle surged, but never once was the gateway to Kaol really in danger.
There were breathing spells when I had a chance to converse with the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding
strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled,
by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of
this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny,
or reward filial disobedience.
*Vide a letter from Mr. Richardson, No. 97, Vol. II, Rambler.
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
Northanger Abbey was written in 1797-98 under a different title.
The manuscript was revised around 1803 and sold to a
London publisher, Crosbie & Co., who sold it back in 1816.
The Signet Classic text is based on the first edition,
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