| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: pocket), gives my other servant his horse, and with his gun away he
flew, swift like the wind.
The bear was walking softly on, and offered to meddle with nobody,
till Friday coming pretty near, calls to him, as if the bear could
understand him. "Hark ye, hark ye," says Friday, "me speakee with
you." We followed at a distance, for now being down on the Gascony
side of the mountains, we were entered a vast forest, where the
country was plain and pretty open, though it had many trees in it
scattered here and there. Friday, who had, as we say, the heels of
the bear, came up with him quickly, and took up a great stone, and
threw it at him, and hit him just on the head, but did him no more
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: had detected near the great granite pillar, served to conceal
Ratcliffe, when any one approached his master. I think you will
be of opinion, my love, that this secrecy must have had some
strong motive. It is also remarkable, that while I thought my
unhappy friend was residing among the Monks of La Trappe, he
should have been actually living, for many months, in this
bizarre disguise, within five miles of my house, and obtaining
regular information of my most private movements, either by
Ratcliffe, or through Westburnflat or others, whom he had the
means to bribe to any extent. He makes it a crime against me
that I endeavoured to establish your marriage with Sir Frederick.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: [10] B.C. 368 (or 367).
[11] The Asopus.
Again another time[12] the Theban commander in Sicyon marched out
against Phlius, taking with him the garrison under his personal
command, with the Sicyonians and Pellenians (for at the date of the
incident these states followed in the wake of Thebes). Euphron was
there also with his mercenaries, about two thousand in number, to
share the fortunes of the field. The mass of the troops began their
descent on the Heraion by the Trikaranon, intending to ravage the flat
bottom below. At the gate leading to Corinth the Theban general left
his Sicyonians and Pellenians on the height, to prevent the Phliasians
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