| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: suits his best convenience. This tends to the most perfect
liberality. It is no good hearing the arguments of an
opponent, for in good verity you rarely follow them; and even
if you do take the trouble to listen, it is merely in a
captious search for weaknesses. This is proved, I fear, in
every debate; when you hear each speaker arguing out his own
prepared SPECIALITE (he never intended speaking, of course,
until some remarks of, etc.), arguing out, I say, his own
COACHED-UP subject without the least attention to what has
gone before, as utterly at sea about the drift of his
adversary's speech as Panurge when he argued with Thaumaste,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,
EZE 25:10 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give
them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the
nations.
EZE 25:11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know
that I am the LORD.
EZE 25:12 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against
the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and
revenged himself upon them;
EZE 25:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out
mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: would probably be compelled to winter on the Pacific side of the
mountains, somewhere on the head waters of the Spanish or
Colorado River.
With all the care that had been observed in taking nothing with
them that was not absolutely necessary, the poor pedestrians were
heavily laden, and their burdens added to the fatigues of their
rugged road. They suffered much, too, from hunger. The trout they
caught were too poor to yield much nourishment; their main
dependence, therefore, was upon an old beaver trap, which they
had providentially retained. Whenever they were fortunate enough
to entrap a beaver, it was cut up immediately and distributed,
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