| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: 242 C; "Mem." II. i. 4.
The hunter should take his hounds and inspect the traps upon the
mountains, early in the morning if possible, though he should do so
also during the day at other times. Those set on cultivated land must
always be inspected early, before the sun is up in fact,[31] and for
this reason: on the hills, so desert is the region,[32] the creatures
may be caught not only at night but at any time of day; while, on the
cultivated lands, owing to their chronic apprehension of mankind in
daytime, night is the only time.[33]
[31] "Before the sun is up."
[32] Or, "thanks to the lonesomeness of the region."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: steel, half sunk in the mud. It was not Silas's tinder-box, for the
only one he had ever had was still standing on his shelf; and the
inference generally accepted was, that the tinder-box in the ditch
was somehow connected with the robbery. A small minority shook
their heads, and intimated their opinion that it was not a robbery
to have much light thrown on it by tinder-boxes, that Master
Marner's tale had a queer look with it, and that such things had
been known as a man's doing himself a mischief, and then setting the
justice to look for the doer. But when questioned closely as to
their grounds for this opinion, and what Master Marner had to gain
by such false pretences, they only shook their heads as before, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The United States Constitution: To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union,
suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for
governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the
United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment
of the Officers, and the Authority of training the militia according
to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever,
over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may,
The United States Constitution |
