| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: and his wife. The fact that she continued to be called
Lady Cressage was not of itself important to him.
But in the incessant going about in London, their names were
called out together so often that his ear grew sensitive
and sore to the touch of the footmen's reverberations.
The meaning differentiation which the voices of the servants
insisted upon, seemed inevitably reflected in the glance
and manner of their mistresses. More than anything else,
that made him hate London, and barred the doors of his
mind to all thoughts of buying a town-house.
His newly-made wife, it is true, had not cared much
The Market-Place |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: TWO.
Aye, so the Grasshopper doth spend the time
In mirthful jollity, till Winter come;
And then too late he would redeem his time,
When frozen cold hath nipped his careless head.
He, that no sooner will provide a Cloak,
Then when he sees it doth begin to reign,
May, peradventure, for his negligence,
Be throughly washed, when he suspects it not.
We that have charge and such a train as this,
Must look in time to look for them and us,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: [14] Commonly spoken of as "the Return." See Grote, "H. G." II. ch.
xviii.
[15] Against the Amazons and Thracians; cf. Herod. ix. 27; Plut.
"Thes." 27.
[16] The "Persian" wars; cf. Thucyd. I. i.
[17] He omits the Plataeans.
Per. Yes, so runs the story of their heroism.
Soc. Therefore it is that, amidst the many changes of inhabitants, and
the migrations which have, wave after wave, swept over Hellas, these
maintained themselves in their own land, unmoved; so that it was a
common thing for others to turn to them as to a court of appeal on
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