| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland: Contact Mike Lough
THE CHINESE
BOY AND GIRL
BY
ISAAC TAYLOR HEADLAND
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: remember you aught of these lines?"
Tressilian's heart was too heavy, his prospects in life too
fatally blighted, to profit by the opportunity which the Queen
thus offered to him of attracting her attention; but he
determined to transfer the advantage to his more ambitious young
friend, and excusing himself on the score of want of
recollection, he added that he believed the beautiful verses of
which my Lord of Leicester had spoken were in the remembrance of
Master Walter Raleigh.
At the command of the Queen, that cavalier repeated, with accent
and manner which even added to their exquisite delicacy of tact
Kenilworth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass: exposure of slavery can be made than is made by the laws of the
states in which slavery exists. I prefer reading the laws to
making any statement in confirmation of what I have said myself;
for the slaveholders cannot object to this testimony, since it is
the calm, the cool, the deliberate enactment of their wisest
heads, of their most clear-sighted, their own constituted
representatives. "If more than seven slaves together are found
in any road without a white person, twenty lashes a piece; for
visiting a plantation without a written pass, ten lashes; for
letting loose a boat from where it is made fast, thirty-nine
lashes for the first offense; and for the second, shall have cut
My Bondage and My Freedom |
