| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: white-walled downs of Weymouth Bay. The Spaniards turn and face
the English. They must mean to stand off and on until the wind
shall change, and then to try for the Needles. At least, they
shall have some work to do before they round Purbeck Isle.
The English go to the westward again: but it is only to return on
the opposite tack; and now begin a series of manoeuvres, each fleet
trying to get the wind of the other; but the struggle does not last
long, and ere noon the English fleet have slipped close-hauled
between the Armada and the land, and are coming down upon them
right before the wind.
And now begins a fight most fierce and fell. "And fight they did
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: partialities, that every man of delicacy would suppress
his inclination towards her, by supposing her heart
engaged! Can any man, for the trivial gratification of
his leisure hours, affect the happiness of a whole life!
His not having spoken of marriage may add to his
perfidy, but can be no excuse for his conduct.
DIMPLE
Sir, I admire your sentiments;--they are mine.
The light observations that fell from me were only a
principle of the tongue; they came not from the heart;
my practice has ever disapproved these principles.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: her arms; but if she be guilty, she will fall out of
bed, and run away."
When I first read this wonderful passage, I could
not easily conceive why it had remained hitherto
unregarded in such a zealous competition for
magnetical fame. I would surely be unjust to suspect
that any of the candidates are strangers to the name
or works of Rabbi Abraham, or to conclude, from
a late edict of the Royal Society in favour of the
English language, that philosophy and literature
are no longer to act in concert. Yet, how should a
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