| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Apology by Xenophon: the present time to hold my head less high than I did before sentence
was passed against me, if I have not been convicted of having done any
of those things whereof my accusers accused me? It has not been proved
against me that I have sacrificed to novel divinities in place of Zeus
and Hera and the gods who form their company. I have not taken oath by
any other gods, nor named their name.
[44] {eipein auton [autos(?)]}, i.e. "according to Hermiogenes."
[45] Or, "must have a heavy load on their minds in the consciousness
of their impiety and injustice."
"And then the young--how could I corrupt them by habituating them to
manliness and frugality? since not even my accusers themselves allege
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: Bodleian, hookworms at, 87.
Bookbinders as enemies of books, 103.
Books, absurd lettering, i i i.
--burnt at Carthage; at Ephesus, 4.--burnt in Fire
of London, 10.--burnt by Saracens, 3.--captured by Corsairs, 18.
-cleaning of, 114.--deprived of title pages, i 18, 119.
Books destroyed at the Reformation, Si.--dried in an attic, 16.--
examination of old covers, i 16.--how to dust them, 134.
-injured by hacking, i x i.--lost at sea, 17, 18.--margin reduced
to size, i 11.--mildew in, 136.--from monasteries destroyed, 9.--
restoration when injured, 114.--restored after a fire, 15.--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: which for a course of fifty miles or more parts the two counties of
Suffolk and Essex, passing through or near Haveril, Clare,
Cavendish, Halsted, Sudbury, Bowers, Nayland, Stretford, Dedham,
Manningtree, and into the sea at Harwich, assisting by its waters
to make one of the best harbours for shipping that is in Great
Britain - I mean Orwell Haven or Harwich, of which I have spoken
largely already.
As we came on this side we saw at a distance Braintree and Bocking,
two towns, large, rich, and populous, and made so originally by the
bay trade, of which I have spoken at large at Colchester, and which
flourishes still among them.
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