| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: or else = "international wars."
[12] "The pleasures incidental to warfare between states"; al. "the
sweets which citizens engaged in warfare as against rival states
can count upon."
[13] Reading {analambanousin}, or, if after Cobet, etc.,
{lambanousin}, transl. "what brilliant honour, what bright credit
they assume."
[14] "To have played his part in counsel." See "Anab." passim, and M.
Taine, "Essais de Critique," "Xenophon," p. 128.
[15] Lit. "they do not indulge in false additions, pretending to have
put more enemies to death than actually fell."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: going out for a Sunday spree, as I have often seen in the place I lived in
before I came here; no," said he, shaking his head, "I hope I shall never
come to that."
10 A Talk in the Orchard
Ginger and I were not of the regular tall carriage horse breed, we had more
of the racing blood in us. We stood about fifteen and a half hands high;
we were therefore just as good for riding as we were for driving,
and our master used to say that he disliked either horse or man that could do
but one thing; and as he did not want to show off in London parks,
he preferred a more active and useful kind of horse. As for us,
our greatest pleasure was when we were saddled for a riding party;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Second Home by Honore de Balzac: with the Comtesse de Granville. Every morning a little scene took
place, which, if evil tongues are to be believed, is repeated in many
households as the result of incompatibility of temper, of moral or
physical malady, or of antagonisms leading to such disaster as is
recorded in this history. At about eight in the morning a housekeeper,
bearing no small resemblance to a nun, rang at the Comte de
Granville's door. Admitted to the room next to the Judge's study, she
always repeated the same message to the footman, and always in the
same tone:
"Madame would be glad to know whether Monsieur le Comte has had a good
night, and if she is to have the pleasure of his company at
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