| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: the hangman.
Whence come so many knaves that must daily be hanged, beheaded, broken
upon the wheel, but from disobedience [to parents], because they will
not submit to discipline in kindness, so that, by the punishment of
God, they bring it about that we behold their misfortune and grief? For
it seldom happens that such perverse people die a natural or timely
death.
But the godly and obedient have this blessing, that they live long in
pleasant quietness and see their children's children (as said above) to
the third and fourth generation. Thus experience also teaches, that
where there are honorable, old families who fare well and have many
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: all that he did, and found it so practicable
that we performed several of his feats that
evening by ourselves, and afterwards I did
most of the rest as soon as I had a frame
made to fit in to draw, and another to
stand in and lift great weights, together
with a proper girdle and hooks.
Dr. Desaguliers illustrates Van Eckenberg's
methods in a very exhaustive set of notes and
plates, which are too technical and voluminous
to repeat here, but I will quote sufficiently
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: written it at first, had he not been 'nodding'; and he will not hesitate to
supply anything which, owing to the genius of the language or some accident
of composition, is omitted in the Greek, but is necessary to make the
English clear and consecutive.
It is difficult to harmonize all these conflicting elements. In a
translation of Plato what may be termed the interests of the Greek and
English are often at war with one another. In framing the English sentence
we are insensibly diverted from the exact meaning of the Greek; when we
return to the Greek we are apt to cramp and overlay the English. We
substitute, we compromise, we give and take, we add a little here and leave
out a little there. The translator may sometimes be allowed to sacrifice
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