| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed
to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce
them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw
off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now
the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated
injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment
of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: if to remind them of their promise, and of the danger which they
incurred. The exclamation died away on Lady Forester's tongue,
without attaining perfect utterance, and the scene in the glass,
after the fluctuation of a minute, again resumed to the eye its
former appearance of a real scene, existing within the mirror, as
if represented in a picture, save that the figures were movable
instead of being stationary.
The representation of Sir Philip Forester, now distinctly visible
in form and feature, was seen to lead on towards the clergyman
that beautiful girl, who advanced at once with diffidence and
with a species of affectionate pride. In the meantime, and just
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: raked east and west, appeared to them no place to land on. And
they hung off in the deep water of the lagoon inside the barrier
reef, feebly fusillading the pilot house.
Between four and five, the Fabeata regiment (or folk of that
village) on the Mataafa left, which had been under arms all day,
fell to be withdrawn for rest and food; the Siumu regiment, which
should have relieved it, was not ready or not notified in time; and
the Tamaseses, gallantly profiting by the mismanagement, recovered
the most of the ground in their proper right. It was not for long.
They lost it again, yard by yard and from house to house, till the
pilot station was once more in the hands of the Mataafas. This is
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