| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: taking the aconitine when she had been so anxious to try its
effect. Sybil's letters, too, though full of love, and trust, and
tenderness, were often very sad in their tone, and sometimes he
used to think that he was parted from her for ever.
After a fortnight Lord Surbiton got bored with Venice, and
determined to run down the coast to Ravenna, as he heard that there
was some capital cock-shooting in the Pinetum. Lord Arthur at
first refused absolutely to come, but Surbiton, of whom he was
extremely fond, finally persuaded him that if he stayed at
Danieli's by himself he would be moped to death, and on the morning
of the 15th they started, with a strong nor'-east wind blowing, and
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: general consent of Europe, that he could best subserve the
interests of universal toleration. This principle he embodied in
his admirable edict of Nantes. What a Huguenot prince might have
done, may be seen from the shameful way in which the French
Calvinists abused the favour which Henry--and Richelieu
afterwards--accorded to them. Remembering how Calvin himself
"dragooned" Geneva, let us be thankful for the fortune which, in
one of the most critical periods of history, raised to the
highest position in Christendom a man who was something more than
a sectarian.
With this brief criticism, we must regretfully take leave of Mr.
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