| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Disputation of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Dr. Martin Luther: melior, sed per venias non fit melior sed tantummodo a pena
liberior.
20. [45] Docendi sunt christiani, quod, qui videt egenum et
neglecto eo dat pro veniis, non idulgentias Pape sed indignationem
dei sibi vendicat.
21. [46] Docendi sunt christiani, quod nisi superfluis abundent
necessaria tenentur domui sue retinere et nequaquam propter venias
effundere.
22. [47] Docendi sunt christiani, quod redemptio veniarum est
libera, non precepta.
23. [48] Docendi sunt christiani, quod Papa sicut magis eget ita
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: The king sat safe in his place and a kindly fool was dead.
But the mother of Tamatea arose with death in her eyes.
All night long, and the next, Taiarapu rang with her cries.
As when a babe in the wood turns with a chill of doubt
And perceives nor home, nor friends, for the trees have closed her about,
The mountain rings and her breast is torn with the voice of despair:
So the lion-like woman idly wearied the air
For awhile, and pierced men's hearing in vain, and wounded their hearts.
But as when the weather changes at sea, in dangerous parts,
And sudden the hurricane wrack unrolls up the front of the sky,
At once the ship lies idle, the sails hang silent on high,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: honours of the state," he caused, not only the public authorities, but
those personally interested[3] in the several companies of youths to
take serious pains so that no single individual of them should by an
act of craven cowardice find himself utterly rejected and reprobate
within the body politic.
[2] Lit. "range themselves." For the idea, see "Mem."I. ii. 23;
Swinburne, "Songs before Sunrise": Prelude, "Past youth where
shoreward shallows are."
[3] Or, "the friends and connections."
Furthermore, in his desire to implant in their youthful souls a root
of modesty he imposed upon these bigger boys a special rule. In the
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