| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: positions of some of the stars.
For instance, he showed me one which, by help of my glasses, I
recognised as Sirius, and remarked that two hundred and fifty
thousand years ago it was further away and much smaller. Now it
was precisely in the place and of the size which he had
predicted, and he pointed to it on his prophetic map. Again he
indicated a star that the night-glass told me was Capella, which,
I suppose, is one of the most brilliant stars in the sky, and
showed me that on the map he had made two hundred and fifty
thousand years ago, it did not exist, as then it was too far
north to appear thereon. Still, he observed, the passage of this
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: CLOWN.
It is like a barber's chair, that fits all buttocks--the pin-
buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn-buttock, or any buttock.
COUNTESS.
Will your answer serve fit to all questions?
CLOWN.
As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney, as your
French crown for your taffety punk, as Tib's rush for Tom's
forefinger, as a pancake for Shrove-Tuesday, a morris for Mayday,
as the nail to his hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding
quean to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the friar's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: [9] A strategos. For the duties and spheres of action of this officer,
see Gow, op. cit. xiv. 58.
[10] "As in the building of a house." See Vitrivius, ii. 3; Plin. xxv.
14.
The simile is very apt, Socrates[11] (replied the youth), for in
battle, too, the rule is to draw up the best men in front and rear,
with those of inferior quality between, where they may be led on by
the former and pushed on by the hinder.
[11] Cf. "Il." iv. 297 foll.; "Cyrop." VI. iii. 25; Polyb. x. 22.
Soc. Very good, no doubt, if the professor taught you to distinguish
good and bad; but if not, where is the use of your learning? It would
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