| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: respect to your feelings. Now let's go to supper. We must be up
early tomorrow for the whiting."
'The next was a beautiful crisp autumn morning - a weather-
breeder, if I had taken the trouble to think; but it's refreshing to
escape from kings and converts for half a day. We three went by
ourselves in Meon's smallest boat, and we got on the whiting near
an old wreck, a mile or so off shore. Meon knew the marks to a
yard, and the fish were keen. Yes - yess! A perfect morning's
fishing! If a Bishop can't be a fisherman, who can?' He twiddled
his ring again. 'We stayed there a little too long, and while we
were getting up our stone, down came the fog. After some
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: and more important was the marriage of that princess to William
of Orange. This prince was son of the king's eldest sister, and
therefore grandson of Charles I. As a hero who, by virtue of his
statesmanship and indomitable courage, had rescued Holland from
the hateful power of France, he was regarded not only as the
saviour of his country, but as the protector of protestantism.
Already a large section of the English nation turned their eyes
towards him as one whom they might elect some day to weald the
sceptre of Great Britain. Subtle, ambitious, and determined, a
silent student of humanity, a grave observer of politics, a
sagacious leader in warfare, he had likewise begun to look
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: desire. But I was to have another trial for it still; and
Providence, as in such cases generally it does, resolved to leave
me entirely without excuse; for if I would not take this for a
deliverance, the next was to be such a one as the worst and most
hardened wretch among us would confess both the danger and the
mercy of.
The sixth day of our being at sea we came into Yarmouth Roads; the
wind having been contrary and the weather calm, we had made but
little way since the storm. Here we were obliged to come to an
anchor, and here we lay, the wind continuing contrary - viz. at
south-west - for seven or eight days, during which time a great
Robinson Crusoe |
