| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: of one or more persons, who, under the inspection and control of
the Crown, sold the lands and governed the inhabitants. Lastly,
a third system consisted in allowing a certain number of
emigrants to constitute a political society under the protection
of the mother-country, and to govern themselves in whatever was
not contrary to her laws. This mode of colonization, so
remarkably favorable to liberty, was only adopted in New England.
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[Footnote j: This was the case in the State of New York.]
[Footnote k: Maryland, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and New
Jersey were in this situation. See "Pitkin's History," vol. i.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac: long to wait.
He could now examine the panther at ease; its muzzle was smeared with
blood.
"She's had a good dinner," he thought, without troubling himself as to
whether her feast might have been on human flesh. "She won't be hungry
when she gets up."
It was a female. The fur on her belly and flanks was glistening white;
many small marks like velvet formed beautiful bracelets round her
feet; her sinuous tail was also white, ending with black rings; the
overpart of her dress, yellow like burnished gold, very lissome and
soft, had the characteristic blotches in the form of rosettes, which
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: incumbrances of his inheritance. On the death of Philip the
Forward, father of that John the Fearless whom we have seen
at work, the widow went through the ceremony of a public
renunciation of goods; taking off her purse and girdle, she
left them on the grave, and thus, by one notable act,
cancelled her husband's debts and defamed his honour. The
conduct of young Charles of Orleans was very different. To
meet the joint liabilities of his father and mother (for
Valentina also was lavish), he had to sell or pledge a
quantity of jewels; and yet he would not take advantage of a
pretext, even legally valid, to diminish the amount. Thus,
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