| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: how the enemies of her country fell before her sword. Dangerous
statesmen fell before her pen, and if they were fortunate enough
to rise again with all their honour it was to be divested of all
their former power. Every obstacle in her path was overcome
either by diplomacy or by force.
The Empress Dowager has no double in Chinese history, if indeed
in the history of the world. She not only guided the ship of
state during the last half century, but she guided it well, and
put into operation all the greatest reforms that have ever been
thought of by Chinese statesmen. Compared with her own people,
she stands head and shoulders above any other woman of the Mongol
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: king had turned their blood to water. Fifty or more raised
a white flag and surrendered without striking a blow, and
when, at last, Barney and his little bodyguard fought their
way through those who surrounded them they found the
balance of the field already won.
Upon the slope below the city the loyal troops were ad-
vancing upon the enemy. Old Prince Ludwig paced back
and forth behind them, apparently oblivious to the rain of
bullets about him. Every moment he turned his eyes toward
the wooded ridge from which there now belched an almost
continuous fusillade of shells upon the advancing royalists.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: minister, at Salem village? Oh, his voice would make me tremble
both Sabbath day and lecture day."
Thus far the elder traveller had listened with due gravity; but
now burst into a fit of irrepressible mirth, shaking himself so
violently that his snake-like staff actually seemed to wriggle in
sympathy.
"Ha! ha! ha!" shouted he again and again; then composing himself,
"Well, go on, Goodman Brown, go on; but, prithee, don't kill me
with laughing."
"Well, then, to end the matter at once," said Goodman Brown,
considerably nettled, "there is my wife, Faith. It would break
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