| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: Arise faire Sun and kill the enuious Moone,
Who is already sicke and pale with griefe,
That thou her Maid art far more faire then she:
Be not her Maid since she is enuious,
Her Vestal liuery is but sicke and greene,
And none but fooles do weare it, cast it off:
It is my Lady, O it is my Loue, O that she knew she were,
She speakes, yet she sayes nothing, what of that?
Her eye discourses, I will answere it:
I am too bold 'tis not to me she speakes:
Two of the fairest starres in all the Heauen,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: in 1638, those who landed at New Haven in 1637, the first
settlers in Connecticut in 1639, and the founders of Providence
in 1640, began in like manner by drawing up a social contract,
which was acceded to by all the interested parties. See "Pitkin's
History," pp. 42 and 47.]
This happened in 1620, and from that time forwards the
emigration went on. The religious and political passions which
ravaged the British Empire during the whole reign of Charles I
drove fresh crowds of sectarians every year to the shores of
America. In England the stronghold of Puritanism was in the
middle classes, and it was from the middle classes that the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: my books, was to drink goats' urine every morning; I know not
whether he found any benefit by following my prescription, for I
never saw him after.
Being under a necessity of obeying our acoba, or protector, we
changed our place of abode as often as he desired it, though not
without great inconveniences, from the excessive heat of the weather
and the faintness which our strict observation of the fasts and
austerities of Lent, as it is kept in this country, had brought upon
us. At length, wearied with removing so often, and finding that the
last place assigned for our abode was always the worst, we agreed
that I should go to our sovereign and complain.
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