| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: penury as many despots." Breitenbach del. {oukh}, and transl.,
"Daher weist du auch in dem Masse wenige Arme unter den Privat-
leuten finden, als viele unter den Tyrannen." Stob., {penetas
opsei oligous ton idioton, pollous de ton turannon}. Stob. MS.
Par., {alla mentoi kai plousious opsei oukh outos oligous ton
idioton os penetas pollous ton turannon}. See Holden ad loc. and
crit. n.
[15] Cf. "Mem." IV. ii. 37.
[16] Or, "not by the number of things we have, but in reference to the
use we make of them." Cf. "Anab." VII. vii. 36.
[17] Dr. Holden aptly cf. Addison, "The Spectator," No. 574, on the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: a whip I give him the good time of the day, and straw
rushes presently: therefore, I am a rusher, a high office,
I promise ye.
MUCEDORUS.
But where shall I find you in the Court?
MOUSE.
Why, where it is best being, either in the kitchen a
eating or in the buttery drinking: but if you come, I
will provide for thee a piece of beef & brewis knockle
deep in fat; pray you, take pains, remember master
mouse.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: heads--as many as there are days in the month. But of course she
could only wear one of them at a time, because she had but one neck.
These heads were kept in what she called her "cabinet," which was a
beautiful dressing-room that lay just between Langwidere's
sleeping-chamber and the mirrored sitting-room. Each head was in a
separate cupboard lined with velvet. The cupboards ran all around the
sides of the dressing-room, and had elaborately carved doors with gold
numbers on the outside and jeweled-framed mirrors on the inside of them.
When the Princess got out of her crystal bed in the morning she went
to her cabinet, opened one of the velvet-lined cupboards, and took the
head it contained from its golden shelf. Then, by the aid of the
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