| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: [4] "Entered on an era of prestige with the incorporation of," after
Leuctra, 371 B.C., when the force was at its worst. See "Hell."
VI. iv. 10.
[5] Or, "money will be forthcoming for them." Cf. Lys. "Against
Philon," xxxi. 15; Martin, op. cit. 319.
[6] Cf. "Hell." III. iv. 15; "Ages." i. 23. Courier brackets this
sentence [{oti . . . ippeuein}] as a gloss; Martin, p. 323,
emends.
[7] As to the legal exemption of orphans Schneid. cf. Dem. "Symm."
182. 15; Lys. "Against Diogeit." 24.
[8] Lit. "metoecs." See "Revenues," ii.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: For haste; such flight the great command impressed
On the swift floods: As armies at the call
Of trumpet (for of armies thou hast heard)
Troop to their standard; so the watery throng,
Wave rolling after wave, where way they found,
If steep, with torrent rapture, if through plain,
Soft-ebbing; nor withstood them rock or hill;
But they, or under ground, or circuit wide
With serpent errour wandering, found their way,
And on the washy oose deep channels wore;
Easy, ere God had bid the ground be dry,
Paradise Lost |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: priests. Altars were resplendent with sacramental luxury; the wreaths
of orange-flowers that crowned the figures of the Virgin were fresh.
Flowers, incense, gleaming tapers, velvet cushions embroidered with
gold, were everywhere. When the time came to hold above the heads of
Luigi and Ginevra the symbol of eternal union,--that yoke of satin,
white, soft, brilliant, light for some, lead for most,--the priest
looked about him in vain for the acolytes whose place it was to
perform that joyous function. Two of the witnesses fulfilled it for
them. The priest addressed a hasty homily to the pair on the perils of
life, on the duties they must, some day, inculcate upon their
children,--throwing in, at this point, an indirect reproach to Ginevra
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