| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: person of the rider, but on that of his gallant horse, which,
shot through the heart, fell dead under him. Ranald MacEagh, who
was one of those who had been pressing Sir Duncan hard, took the
opportunity to cut him down with his broadsword, as he turned
from him in the act of firing the pistol.
Allan M'Aulay came up at this moment. They were, excepting
Ranald, followers of his brother who were engaged on that part of
the field, "Villains!" he said, "which of you has dared to do
this, when it was my positive order that the Knight of Ardenvohr
should be taken alive?"
Half-a-dozen of busy hands, which were emulously employed in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: occupied their business upon the waters.
The men, moreover, of Buprasium and of Elis, so much of it as is
enclosed between Hyrmine, Myrsinus upon the sea-shore, the rock
Olene and Alesium. These had four leaders, and each of them had
ten ships, with many Epeans on board. Their captains were
Amphimachus and Thalpius--the one, son of Cteatus, and the other,
of Eurytus--both of the race of Actor. The two others were
Diores, son of Amarynces, and Polyxenus, son of King Agasthenes,
son of Augeas.
And those of Dulichium with the sacred Echinean islands, who
dwelt beyond the sea off Elis; these were led by Meges, peer of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Critias by Plato: which associate together, male as well as female, may, if they please,
practise in common the virtue which belongs to them without distinction of
sex.
Now the country was inhabited in those days by various classes of
citizens;--there were artisans, and there were husbandmen, and there was
also a warrior class originally set apart by divine men. The latter dwelt
by themselves, and had all things suitable for nurture and education;
neither had any of them anything of their own, but they regarded all that
they had as common property; nor did they claim to receive of the other
citizens anything more than their necessary food. And they practised all
the pursuits which we yesterday described as those of our imaginary
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