| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: the doctrine of the other. Men read by way of revenge.
And the Speech, instead of terrifying, prepared a way
for the manly principles of Independance.
Ceremony, and even, silence, from whatever motive they
may arise, have a hurtful tendency, when they give the least
degree of countenance to base and wicked performances;
wherefore, if this maxim be admitted, it naturally follows,
that the King's Speech, as being a piece of finished villany,
deserved, and still deserves, a general execration both by the
Congress and the people. Yet, as the domestic tranquillity of
a nation, depends greatly, on the CHASTITY of what may properly
Common Sense |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: pains to earn hell than the martyrs of Christ to obtain heaven. Theirs is a
double misfortune. First they torture themselves on earth with self-
inflicted penances and finally when they die they gain the reward of eternal
damnation.
VERSE 2. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ
shall profit you nothing.
Paul is incensed at the thought of the tyranny of the Law. His antagonism
to the Law is a personal matter with him. "Behold, I, Paul," he says, "I who
have received the Gospel not from men, but by the revelation of Jesus
Christ: I who have been commissioned from above to preach the Gospel to
you: I Paul say to you, If you submit to circumcision Christ will profit you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: rum-crazy shipmates led her was too terrible to be told.
For a time Blackbeard worked at his trade down on the Spanish
Main, gathering, in the few years he was there, a very neat
little fortune in the booty captured from sundry vessels; but by
and by he took it into his head to try his luck along the coast
of the Carolinas; so off he sailed to the northward, with quite a
respectable little fleet, consisting of his own vessel and two
captured sloops. From that time he was actively engaged in the
making of American history in his small way.
He first appeared off the bar of Charleston Harbor, to the no
small excitement of the worthy town of that ilk, and there he lay
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
