| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Open Letter on Translating by Dr. Martin Luther: So this can be the answer to your first question. Please do not
give these asses any other answer to their useless braying about
that word "sola" than simply "Luther will have it so, and he says
that he is a doctor above all the papal doctors." Let it remain
at that. I will, from now on, hold them in contempt, and have
already held them in contempt, as long as they are the kind of
people that they are - asses, I should say. And there are brazen
idiots among them who have never learned their own art of
sophistry - like Dr. Schmidt and Snot-Nose, and such like them.
They set themselves against me in this matter, which not only
transcends sophistry, but as St. Paul writes, all the wisdom and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: assailants in defence of themselves their tents and their ships.
The stones fell thick as the flakes of snow which some fierce
blast drives from the dark clouds and showers down in sheets upon
the earth--even so fell the weapons from the hands alike of
Trojans and Achaeans. Helmet and shield rang out as the great
stones rained upon them, and Asius, the son of Hyrtacus, in his
dismay cried aloud and smote his two thighs. "Father Jove," he
cried, "of a truth you too are altogether given to lying. I made
sure the Argive heroes could not withstand us, whereas like
slim-waisted wasps, or bees that have their nests in the rocks by
the wayside--they leave not the holes wherein they have built
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: authenticity. Many of these belonged to the wars of Montrose, in
which some of the Sergeant's ancestry had, it seems, taken a
distinguished part. It has happened, that, although these civil
commotions reflect the highest honour upon the Highlanders, being
indeed the first occasion upon which they showed themselves
superior, or even equal to their Low-country neighbours in
military encounters, they have been less commemorated among them
than any one would have expected, judging from the abundance of
traditions which they have preserved upon less interesting
subjects. It was, therefore, with great pleasure, that I
extracted from my military friend some curious particulars
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