| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll: As he angrily tingled his bell.
"He remarked to me then," said that mildest of men,
" 'If your Snark be a Snark, that is right:
Fetch it home by all means--you may serve it with greens,
And it's handy for striking a light.
" 'You may seek it with thimbles--and seek it with care;
You may hunt it with forks and hope;
You may threaten its life with a railway-share;
You may charm it with smiles and soap--' "
("That's exactly the method," the Bellman bold
In a hasty parenthesis cried,
The Hunting of the Snark |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: 27, and L. Dindorf ad loc.
[12] A single mora, or an army corps.
[13] Or, "vedettes," {proskopon}. See "Cyrop." V. ii. 6.
[14] ? Or, "on your arms." See Sturz, "Lex. Xen." s.v.
If the story is a little long the reader must not be surprised, since
it would be difficult to find any point in military matters omitted by
the Lacedaemonians which seems to demand attention.
XIII
I will now give a detailed account of the power and privilege assigned
by Lycurgus to the king during a campaign. To begin with, so long as
he is on active service, the state maintains the king and those with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: age, was the only son who had not taken a University
degree, though he was the single one of them whose
early promise might have done full justice to an
academical training.
Some two or three years before Angel's appearance at
the Marlott dance, on a day when he had left school and
was pursuing his studies at home, a parcel came to the
Vicarage from the local bookseller's, directed to the
Reverend James Clare. The Vicar having opened it and
found it to contain a book, read a few pages; whereupon
he jumped up from his seat and went straight to the
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
