| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: was compelled to desist. Mose trotted reluctantly along behind the horse.
Although the chief preserved a dignified mien, his braves were disposed to be
gay. They were in high glee over their feat of capturing the palefaces, and
kept up an incessant jabbering. One Indian, who walked directly behind Joe,
continually prodded him with the stock of a rifle; and whenever Joe turned,
the brawny redskin grinned as he grunted, "Ugh!" Joe observed that this huge
savage had a broad face of rather a lighter shade of red than his companions.
Perhaps he intended those rifle-prods in friendliness, for although they
certainly amused him, he would allow no one else to touch Joe; but it would
have been more pleasing had he shown his friendship in a gentle manner. This
Indian carried Joe's pack, much to his own delight, especially as his
The Spirit of the Border |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum: kissing her hand.
Just then the voice of the Prince was heard calling upon them to
hasten, and a moment later he returned to the enclosure, followed by a
number of his people.
Instantly the Princess turned and faced him, and when he saw that she
was picked the Prince stood still and began to tremble.
"Sir," said the Royal Lady, with much dignity, "you have wronged me
greatly, and would have wronged me still more had not these strangers
come to my rescue. I have been ready for picking all the past week,
but because you were selfish and desired to continue your unlawful
rule, you left me to stand silent upon my bush."
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: combination of the two suggests a subtle shade of negation which cannot be
expressed in English. And while English is more dependent than Greek upon
the apposition of clauses and sentences, yet there is a difficulty in using
this form of construction owing to the want of case endings. For the same
reason there cannot be an equal variety in the order of words or an equal
nicety of emphasis in English as in Greek.
(2) The formation of the sentence and of the paragraph greatly differs in
Greek and English. The lines by which they are divided are generally much
more marked in modern languages than in ancient. Both sentences and
paragraphs are more precise and definite--they do not run into one another.
They are also more regularly developed from within. The sentence marks
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