| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: was raised: 'The enemy! Here come the enemy!'
Unwilling to believe their own doom - for our insurgents
still hoped for success in some negotiations for peace which
had been carried on at Colinton - they called out, 'They are
some of our own.'
'They are too blacke ' (I.E. numerous), 'fie! fie! for ground
to draw up on,' cried Wallace, fully realising the want of
space for his men, and proving that it was not till after
this time that his forces were finally arranged. (2)
First of all the battle was commenced by fifty Royalist horse
sent obliquely across the hill to attack the left wing of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: I see the common dealers in it, the students in astrology, the
philomaths, and the rest of that tribe, treated by wise men with
the utmost scorn and contempt; but rather wonder, when I observe
gentlemen in the country, rich enough to serve the nation in
parliament, poring in Partridge's almanack, to find out the
events of the year at home and abroad; not daring to propose a
hunting-match, till Gadbury or he have fixed the weather.
I will allow either of the two I have mentioned, or any other of
the fraternity, to be not only astrologers, but conjurers too, if
I do not produce a hundred instances in all their almanacks, to
convince any reasonable man, that they do not so much as
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: tapering limbs; and, in her brain-picture, out of the shadow of the room
came one with sallow face, deep-lined, the cheeks drawn into hollows, and a
mouth smiling quiveringly. He stretched out his hand. And the mother drew
back, and cried, "Who are you?" He answered nothing; and she looked up
between his eyelids. And she said, "What can you give the child--health?"
And he said, "The man I touch, there wakes up in his blood a burning fever,
that shall lick his blood as fire. The fever that I will give him shall be
cured when his life is cured."
"You give wealth?"
He shook his head. "The man whom I touch, when he bends to pick up gold,
he sees suddenly a light over his head in the sky; while he looks up to see
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