| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: prevent.
"Oh, God!" cried Benham, "when will men be princes and take hugh a large
uncertain multitude of decently dressed onlookers.
The whole big square was astir, a swaying crowd of men. A
ramshackle platform improvised upon a trolley struggled through the
swarming straw hats to a street corner, and there was some speaking.
At first it seemed as though military men were using this platform,
and then it was manifestly in possession of an excited knot of
labour leaders with red rosettes. The military men had said their
say and got down. They came close by Benham, pushing their way
across the square. "We've warned them," said one. A red flag, like
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: accordance with the character of the earlier dialogues. The resemblances
or imitations of the Gorgias, Protagoras, and Euthydemus, which have been
observed in the Hippias, cannot with certainty be adduced on either side of
the argument. On the whole, more may be said in favour of the genuineness
of the Hippias than against it.
The Menexenus or Funeral Oration is cited by Aristotle, and is interesting
as supplying an example of the manner in which the orators praised 'the
Athenians among the Athenians,' falsifying persons and dates, and casting a
veil over the gloomier events of Athenian history. It exhibits an
acquaintance with the funeral oration of Thucydides, and was, perhaps,
intended to rival that great work. If genuine, the proper place of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: perform that joyous function. Two of the witnesses fulfilled it for
them. The priest addressed a hasty homily to the pair on the perils of
life, on the duties they must, some day, inculcate upon their
children,--throwing in, at this point, an indirect reproach to Ginevra
on the absence of her parents; then, after uniting them before God, as
the mayor had united them before the law, he left the now married
couple.
"God bless them!" said Vergniaud, the sergeant, to the mason, when
they reached the church porch. "No two creatures were ever more fitted
for one another. The parents of the girl are foolish. I don't know a
braver soldier than Colonel Luigi. If the whole army had behaved like
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