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it had been thrown; for otherwise, without rebounding, it could
never have described a trajectory as it did.
Harry saw in it a direct attempt against himself and his father,
or even against the engineer.
CHAPTER VI SIMON FORD'S EXPERIMENT
THE old clock in the cottage struck one as James Starr and his two
companions went out. A dim light penetrated through the ventilating
shaft into the glade. Harry's lamp was not necessary here, but it
would very soon be of use, for the old overman was about to conduct
the engineer to the very end of the Dochart pit.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: is fifteen pounds--and we were prepared to pay it."
Thorpe laughed in a peremptory, gusty way. "But you can't
pay more than I ask!" he told him, with rough geniality.
"Come, if I let you and your nephew in out of the cold,
what kind of men-folk would you be to insist that your niece
should be left outside? As I said, I don't want her money.
I don't want any woman's money. If I'm going to be nice
to the rest of the family, what's the objection to my being
nice to her?"
"Monsieur," said the Frenchman, after an instant's reflection,
"I offer none. I did not at the moment perceive the spirit
The Market-Place |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: particular writing, if this lost literature had been preserved to us.
These considerations lead us to adopt the following criteria of
genuineness: (1) That is most certainly Plato's which Aristotle attributes
to him by name, which (2) is of considerable length, of (3) great
excellence, and also (4) in harmony with the general spirit of the Platonic
writings. But the testimony of Aristotle cannot always be distinguished
from that of a later age (see above); and has various degrees of
importance. Those writings which he cites without mentioning Plato, under
their own names, e.g. the Hippias, the Funeral Oration, the Phaedo, etc.,
have an inferior degree of evidence in their favour. They may have been
supposed by him to be the writings of another, although in the case of
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