| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: said Mareschal-Wells.
"Or make a brandy jeroboam in a frosty morning, without license
from a commissioner of excise," said the smuggler.
"Or ride over the fell in a moonless night," said Westburnflat,
"without asking leave of young Earnscliff; or some Englified
justice of the peace: thae were gude days on the Border when
there was neither peace nor justice heard of."
"Let us remember our wrongs at Darien and Glencoe," continued
Ellieslaw, "and take arms for the protection of our rights, our
fortunes, our lives, and our families."
"Think upon genuine episcopal ordination, without which there can
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass: meanness even among slaveholders. The rule is, no
matter how coarse the food, only let there be enough
of it. This is the theory; and in the part of Maryland
from which I came, it is the general practice,--though
there are many exceptions. Master Thomas gave us
enough of neither coarse nor fine food. There were
four slaves of us in the kitchen--my sister Eliza, my
aunt Priscilla, Henny, and myself; and we were al-
lowed less than a half of a bushel of corn-meal per
week, and very little else, either in the shape of
meat or vegetables. It was not enough for us to
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