| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: race," or "whilst exercising the office of gymnasiarchs
themselves." See "Pol. Ath." i. 13.
[65] "State aid."
V
But now, if it is evident that, in order to get the full benefit of
all these sources of revenue,[1] peace is an indispensable condition--
if that is plain, I say, the question suggests itself, would it not be
worth while to appoint a board to act as guardians of peace? Since no
doubt the election of such a magistracy would enhance the charm of
this city in the eyes of the whole world, and add largely to the
number of our visitors. But if any one is disposed to take the view,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: will invite you to remain here for the night, and I will myself
ride over here early to-morrow morning--before breakfast, in fact,
when I can receive any Communication you have to make to me."
"With all my heart," said Raffles; "this is a comfortable place--
a little dull for a continuance; but I can put up with it for
a night, with this good liquor and the prospect of seeing you again
in the morning. You're a much better host than my stepson was;
but Josh owed me a bit of a grudge for marrying his mother;
and between you and me there was never anything but kindness."
Mr. Bulstrode, hoping that the peculiar mixture of joviality
and sneering in Raffles' manner was a good deal the effect
Middlemarch |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: needles and sticks, of which the ants have piled their nest, are a
mass.
The term, I believe, was invented during the Ancien Regime. Whether
it was or not, it expresses very accurately the life of the many in
those days. No one would speak, if he wished to speak exactly, of
the masses of the United States; for there every man is, or is
presumed to be, a personage; with his own independence, his own
activities, his own rights and duties. No one, I believe, would
have talked of the masses in the old feudal times; for then each
individual was someone's man, bound to his master by ties of mutual
service, just or unjust, honourable or base, but still giving him a
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