| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry: They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British
ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them?
Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years.
Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the
subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain.
Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we
find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir,
deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert
the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated;
we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have
implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: say, 'There did come to us the apostles of our Lord in truth, have
we intercessors to intercede for us? or, could we return, we would
do otherwise than we did.' They have lost themselves, and that which
they devised has strayed away from them.
Verily, your Lord is God who created the heavens and the earth in
six days; then He made for the Throne. He covers night with the day-
it pursues it incessantly- and the sun and the moon and the stars
are subject to His bidding. Aye!- His is the creation and the
bidding,- blessed be God the Lord of the worlds!
Call on your Lord humbly and secretly, verily, He loves not the
transgressors. And do not evil in the earth after it has been righted;
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: president of the parliament, or that of a tranquil savant. Its noble
free-stone blocks, damaged by time, have a certain air of Louis-the-
Fourteenth grandeur; the courses of the facade define the storeys;
panels of red brick recall the appearance of the stables at
Versailles; the windows have masks carved as ornaments in the centre
of their arches and below their sills. The door, of small panels in
the upper half and plain below, through which, when open, the garden
can be seen, is of that honest, unassuming style which was often
employed in former days for the porter's lodges of the royal chateaux.
This building, with five windows to each course, rises two storeys
above the ground-floor, and is particularly noticeable for a roof of
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