| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: xiv. 30, xv. 22; Muller, "Dorians," ii. 389.
After this the ephors proceeded to call out the ban, including the
forty-years-service men of the two remaining regiments;[18] and they
proceeded further to despatch the reservces of the same age belonging
to the six regiments already on foreign service. Hitherto the Phocian
campaign had only drawn upon the thirty-five-years-service list.
Besides these they now ordered out on active service the troops
retained at the beginning of the campaign in attendance on the
magistrates at the government offices. Agesilaus being still disabled
by his infirmity, the city imposed the duty of command upon his son
Archidamus. The new general found eager co-operators in the men of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: of a few useful handbooks, made nothing worth the while. He produced
a mere fancy article. Mackay's notion of a book was HOPPUS'S
MEASURER. Now in my time I have possessed and even studied that
work; but if I were to be left to-morrow on Juan Fernandez, Hoppus's
is not the book that I should choose for my companion volume.
I tried to fight the point with Mackay. I made him own that he had
taken pleasure in reading books otherwise, to his view,
insignificant; but he was too wary to advance a step beyond the
admission. It was in vain for me to argue that here was pleasure
ready-made and running from the spring, whereas his ploughs and
butter-churns were but means and mechanisms to give men the necessary
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: legs against the wall. It comes, it rises. I hide as best I may,
when the Spider enters the perpendicular tunnel: if she saw me,
she would let go the bait and slip down again. I thus bring her,
by degrees, to the orifice. This is the difficult moment. If I
continue the gentle movement, the Spider, feeling herself dragged
out of her home, would at once run back indoors. It is impossible
to get the suspicious animal out by this means. Therefore, when it
appears at the level of the ground, I give a sudden pull.
Surprised by this foul play, the Tarantula has no time to release
her hold; gripping the spikelet, she is thrown some inches away
from the burrow. Her capture now becomes an easy matter. Outside
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