| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Apology by Plato: The Apology of Plato may be compared generally with those speeches of
Thucydides in which he has embodied his conception of the lofty character
and policy of the great Pericles, and which at the same time furnish a
commentary on the situation of affairs from the point of view of the
historian. So in the Apology there is an ideal rather than a literal
truth; much is said which was not said, and is only Plato's view of the
situation. Plato was not, like Xenophon, a chronicler of facts; he does
not appear in any of his writings to have aimed at literal accuracy. He is
not therefore to be supplemented from the Memorabilia and Symposium of
Xenophon, who belongs to an entirely different class of writers. The
Apology of Plato is not the report of what Socrates said, but an elaborate
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: likely to overtake them," said Mr. Vere "if you will favour me
with your company, we will follow them, and assist in the
search."
The efforts of the party were totally unsuccessful, probably
because Ellieslaw directed the pursuit to proceed in the
direction of Earnscliff Tower, under the supposition that the
owner would prove to be the author of the violence, so that they
followed a direction diametrically opposite to that in which the
ruffians had actually proceeded. In the evening they returned,
harassed and out of spirits. But other guests had, in the
meanwhile, arrived at the castle; and, after the recent loss
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: is entirely independent of any legal compulsion. I am ready to
narrow my own resources and the prospects of my family by binding
myself to allow you five hundred pounds yearly during my life,
and to leave you a proportional capital at my death--nay, to do
still more, if more should be definitely necessary to any laudable
project on your part." Mr. Bulstrode had gone on to particulars
in the expectation that these would work strongly on Ladislaw,
and merge other feelings in grateful acceptance.
But Will was looking as stubborn as possible, with his lip pouting
and his fingers in his side-pockets. He was not in the least touched,
and said firmly,--
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