| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: this score, if the purchaser will see the bit inserted and again
removed, under his eyes. Next, let it be carefully noted how the horse
stands being mounted. Many horses are extremely loath to admit the
approach of anything which, if once accepted, clearly means to them
enforced exertion.
[4] {koruphaia}, part of the {khalinos} gear.
Another point to ascertain is whether the horse, when mounted, can be
induced to leave other horses, or when being ridden past a group of
horses standing, will not bolt off to join the company. Some horses
again, as the result of bad training, will run away from the
exercising-ground and make for the stable. A hard mouth may be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: not slow to impute imagination to art, we are by no means so ready
to appreciate its connection with science. Yet contrary, perhaps,
to exogeric ideas on the subject, it is science rather than art that
demands imagination of her votaries. Not that art may not involve
the quality to a high degree, but that a high degree of art is quite
compatible with a very small amount of imagination. On the one side
we may instance painting. Now painting begins its career in the
humble capacity of copyist, a pretty poor copyist at that. At first
so slight was its skill that the rudest symbols sufficed.
"This is a man" was conventionally implied by a few scratches
bearing a very distant relationship to the real thing. Gradually,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: on the crag; and we found the man at home there like a farmer in his
steading. Bidding us all shoulder some of the packages, a matter in
which I made haste to bear a hand, he led us in by a looked gate, which
was the only admission to the island, and through the ruins of the
fortress, to the governor's house. There we saw by the ashes in the
chimney and a standing bed-place in one corner, that he made his usual
occupation.
This bed he now offered me to use, saying he supposed I would set up to
be gentry.
"My gentrice has nothing to do with where I lie," said I. "I bless God
I have lain hard ere now, and can do the same again with thankfulness.
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