| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: 'It will have to be attended to, however,' said Pitman.
'I thought you'd had enough of Waterloo,' returned the lawyer.
'Have you started a morbid craving? You've never been yourself
anyway since you lost that beard. I believe now it was where you
kept your senses.'
'Mr Finsbury,' said the drawing-master, 'I have tried to reason
this matter out, and, with your permission, I should like to lay
before you the results.'
'Fire away,' said Michael; 'but please, Pitman, remember it's
Sunday, and let's have no bad language.'
'There are three views open to us,' began Pitman. 'First this may
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: aught I know, said my father; but the spring I am speaking of, is that
great and elastic power within us of counterbalancing evil, which, like a
secret spring in a well-ordered machine, though it can't prevent the shock-
-at least it imposes upon our sense of it.
Now, my dear brother, said my father, replacing his fore-finger, as he was
coming closer to the point--had my child arrived safe into the world,
unmartyr'd in that precious part of him--fanciful and extravagant as I may
appear to the world in my opinion of christian names, and of that magic
bias which good or bad names irresistibly impress upon our characters and
conducts--Heaven is witness! that in the warmest transports of my wishes
for the prosperity of my child, I never once wished to crown his head with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: though most men do not know.
Turn repentant towards Him; and fear Him, and be steadfast in
prayer; and be not of the idolaters.
Of those who have divided their religion and become sects, every
party in what they have, rejoice.
And when distress touches men they call upon their Lord, repentant
towards Him; then when He has made them taste mercy from Himself,
behold! a party of them associate others with their Lord, that they
may disbelieve in what we have brought them;-but enjoy yourselves; for
hereafter ye shall know!
Or have we sent down to them authority which speaks of what they
The Koran |
