| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: town are likely to have seen. I take this town to be one of the
most agreeable places in England for families who have lived well,
but may have suffered in our late calamities of stocks and bubbles,
to retreat to, where they may live within their own compass; and
several things indeed recommend it to such:-
1. Good houses at very easy rents.
2. An airy, clean, and well-governed town.
3. Very agreeable and improving company almost of every kind.
4. A wonderful plenty of all manner of provisions, whether flesh
or fish, and very good of the kind.
5. Those provisions very cheap, so that a family may live cheaper
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: very reason denuded of sentries. His slaves had for a long time been
bringing leathern bottles along the roundway, where they had raised
with clay two transverse partitions forming a sort of basin. The water
was flowing insensibly along the terrace, and strange to say, it
seemed to cause Hamilcar no anxiety.
But when the helepolis was thirty paces off, he commanded planks to be
placed over the streets between the houses from the cisterns to the
rampart; and a file of people passed from hand to hand helmets and
amphoras, which were emptied continually. The Carthaginians, however,
grew indignant at this waste of water. The ram was demolishing the
wall, when suddenly a fountain sprang forth from the disjointed
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