| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: brother, and the post of honor was his right. So Amyas obeyed him,
after making him promise that if more than one man came up the
path, he would let them pass him before he challenged, so that both
might bring them to bay at the same time.
So Amyas took his station under a high marl bank, and, bedded in
luxuriant crown-ferns, kept his eye steadily on Frank, who sat down
on a little knoll of rock (where is now a garden on the cliff-edge)
which parts the path and the dark chasm down which the stream
rushes to its final leap over the cliff.
There Amyas sat a full half-hour, and glanced at whiles from Frank
to look upon the scene around. Outside the southwest wind blew
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poor and Proud by Oliver Optic: places, and smarted as though they had been scalded with boiling
water. She showed them to her mother, who begged her not to do
any more; but she had too much enthusiasm to be deterred by the
smart of her wounds, and resolutely resumed her labor.
She had scarcely commenced upon the second mass before she was
interrupted by the entrance of Mrs. Howard, her friend Tommy's
mother.
"Why, what are you doing, child?" asked the good woman. "I
thought you were all sick, and here you are making candy, as
merry as on a feast day."
"I am making it to sell, Mrs. Howard," replied Katy, proudly.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: the other give him a right to claim relationship with both of them. They
propose to take the Statesman after the Sophist; his path they must
determine, and part off all other ways, stamping upon them a single
negative form (compare Soph.).
The Stranger begins the enquiry by making a division of the arts and
sciences into theoretical and practical--the one kind concerned with
knowledge exclusively, and the other with action; arithmetic and the
mathematical sciences are examples of the former, and carpentering and
handicraft arts of the latter (compare Philebus). Under which of the two
shall we place the Statesman? Or rather, shall we not first ask, whether
the king, statesman, master, householder, practise one art or many? As the
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