| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: if true and false were all one to them.[27] There are others that will
not do that, but which in the middle of their running,[28] should they
catch the echo of a sound from some other quarter, will leave their
own business and incontinently tear off towards it.[29] The fact
is,[30] they run on without clear motive, some of them; others taking
too much for granted; and a third set to suit their whims and fancies.
Others simply play at hunting; or from pure jealousy, keep questing
about beside the line, continually rushing along and tumbling over one
another.[31]
[26] Or, {misotheron}, "out of antipathy to the quarry." For
{philanthropon} cf. Pollux, ib. 64; Hermog. ap. L. Dind.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: I will not reason here--nor will I stop for YOU to expatiate
on the absurdity, and the worse than absurdity, of scrupling
to engage my faith where my honour was already bound.
The event has proved, that I was a cunning fool,
providing with great circumspection for a possible
opportunity of making myself contemptible and wretched
for ever. At last, however, my resolution was taken,
and I had determined, as soon as I could engage her alone,
to justify the attentions I had so invariably paid her,
and openly assure her of an affection which I had already
taken such pains to display. But in the interim--in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: Gardens. And these were set in a strange churned and
curdled sea, as white as milk. Making through it as best
we might, we passed from that silverness and broken land
into a great bay or gulf, so deep that we might hardly find
bottom, and here we anchored close to a long point of Cuba
covered thick with palms.
We went ashore for water and fruit. Solitary--neither
man nor woman! We found tracks upon the sand that some
among us would have it were made by griffons. One of
our men had the thought that he might procure some large
bird for the Admiral's table. Taking a crossbow he passed
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