| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: and resolve to secure; but never had I been farther from the
mark. With August the school-year (l'annee scolaire) closed, the
examinations concluded, the prizes were adjudged, the schools
dispersed, the gates of all colleges, the doors of all
pensionnats shut, not to be reopened till the beginning or middle
of October. The last day of August was at hand, and what was my
position? Had I advanced a step since the commencement of the
past quarter? On the contrary, I had receded one. By renouncing
my engagement as English master in Mdlle. Reuter's establishment,
I had voluntarily cut off 20l. from my yearly income; I had
diminished my 60l. per annum to 40l., and even that sum I now
The Professor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: naturally regards as its cause.
[9] Cf. "Hell." v. iii. 7 for this maxim.
[10] Al. "if possibly by help of another and plucky animal."
If, when the groom brings up the horse to his master to mount, he
knows how to make him lower his back,[11] to facilitate mounting, we
have no fault to find. Still, we consider that the horseman should
practise and be able to mount, even if the horse does not so lend
himself;[12] since on another occasion another type of horse may fall
to the rider's lot,[13] nor can the same rider be always served by the
same equerry.[14]
[11] {upobibazesthai}. See above, i. 14; Pollux, i. 213; Morgan ad
On Horsemanship |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: utterly alien to that of the average Englishman, that it is only the
sense of wrong which can make him take counsel with them, or make
common cause with them. Meanwhile, every man who is admitted to a
vote, is one more person withdrawn from the temptation to
disloyalty, and enlisted in maintaining the powers that be--when
they are in the wrong, as well as when they are in the right. For
every Englishman is by his nature conservative; slow to form an
opinion; cautious in putting it into effect; patient under evils
which seem irremediable; persevering in abolishing such as seem
remediable; and then only too ready to acquiesce in the earliest
practical result; to "rest and be thankful." His faults, as well as
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