| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: years before having to move once more, to settle
in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.
The Symposium records the discussion of Socrates
and company at a dinner given by Callias for the
youth Autolycus. Dakyns believed that Plato knew
of this work, and that it influenced him to some
degree when he wrote his own "Symposium."
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: the robbers of the Limited. He did not, however, make the least
attempt to push their train acquaintanceship beyond the give and
take of casual greeting. Without showing himself unfriendly, he
gave her no opportunity to determine how far they would go with
each other. This rather piqued her, though she would probably
have rebuffed him if he had presumed far. Of which probability
Val Collins was very well aware.
They met one morning in front of a drug store downtown. She
carried a parasol that was lilac-trimmed, which shade was also
the outstanding note of her dress. She was looking her very best,
and no doubt knew it. To Val her dainty freshness seemed to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: ability," had relinquished their places at court. The king was
perplexed, the parliament divided into factions, the nation
disturbed. No man knew who might next proclaim himself a papist.
As days passed, excitement increased; for hundreds who held
positions in the army, or under the crown--many of whom had
fought for the king and his father--by tendering their
resignations, now proved themselves slaves of what a vigorous
writer calls the "Romish yoke: such a thing," he adds, "as
cannot, but for want of a name to express it, be called a
religion."
Public agitation steadily rose. Evelyn tells us, "he dare not
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