| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: is a matter unworthy the millions we have expended. A temporary stoppage
of trade, was an inconvenience, which would have sufficiently balanced
the repeal of all the acts complained of, had such repeals been obtained;
hut if the whole continent must take up arms, if every man must be a soldier,
it is scarcely worth our while to fight against a contemptible ministry only.
Dearly, dearly, do we pay for the repeal of the acts, if that is all
we fight for; for in a just estimation, it is as great a folly to pay
a Bunker-hill price for law, as for land. As I have always considered
the independancy of this continent, as an event, which sooner or later
must arrive, so from the late rapid progress of the continent to maturity,
the event could not be far off. Wherefore, on the breaking out of hostilities,
Common Sense |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the
brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.
ACT 12:18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the
soldiers, what was become of Peter.
ACT 12:19 And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he
examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death.
And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.
ACT 12:20 And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon:
but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the
king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country
was nourished by the king's country.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: or of words, you may yet connect with that accidental nomenclature
this real fact:- that you might read all the books in the British
Museum (if you could live long enough), and remain an utterly
"illiterate," uneducated person; but that if you read ten pages of a
good book, letter by letter,--that is to say, with real accuracy,--
you are for evermore in some measure an educated person. The entire
difference between education and non-education (as regards the
merely intellectual part of it), consists in this accuracy. A well-
educated gentleman may not know many languages,--may not be able to
speak any but his own,--may have read very few books. But whatever
language he knows, he knows precisely; whatever word he pronounces,
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