| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: repast which leaves me neither empty nor replete,[18] and will suffice
to last me through the day.
[12] See "Mem." III. xiii. 5.
[13] {xusto}--the xystus, "a covered corrider in the gymnasium where
the athletes exercised in winter." Vitruv. v. 11. 4; vi. 7. 5. See
Rich, "Companion," s.n.; Becker, op. cit. p. 309. Cf. Plat.
"Phaedr." 227--Phaedrus loq.: "I have come from Lysias the son of
Cephalus, and I am going to take a walk outside the wall, for I
have been sitting with him the whole morning; and our common
friend Acumenus advises me to walk in the country, which he says
is more invigorating than to walk in the courts."--Jowett.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: little cup of shelter to find the hard wind blowing in my eyes; and
yet there were the two great tracts of motionless blue air and
peaceful sea looking on, unconcerned and apart, at the turmoil of the
present moment and the memorials of the precarious past. There is
ever something transitory and fretful in the impression of a high
wind under a cloudless sky; it seems to have no root in the
constitution of things; it must speedily begin to faint and wither
away like a cut flower. And on those days the thought of the wind
and the thought of human life came very near together in my mind.
Our noisy years did indeed seem moments in the being of the eternal
silence; and the wind, in the face of that great field of stationary
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: discovery that Jackson in F and Hymns Ancient and Modern are not
perhaps the last word of beauty and propriety in the praise of God.
In short, there is a vast body of art now within the reach of
everybody. The difficulty is that this art, which alone can educate
us in grace of body and soul, and which alone can make the history of
the past live for us or the hope of the future shine for us, which
alone can give delicacy and nobility to our crude lusts, which is the
appointed vehicle of inspiration and the method of the communion of
saints, is actually branded as sinful among us because, wherever it
arises, there is resistance to tyranny, breaking of fetters, and the
breath of freedom. The attempt to suppress art is not wholly
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