| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: "It's a wonderful city for scholarship and religion?"
"You'd say so, my boy, if you'd seen it. Why, the very sons of the old
women who do the washing of the colleges can talk in Latin--not good Latin,
that I admit, as a critic: dog-Latin--cat-Latin, as we used to call it in my
undergraduate days."
"And Greek?"
"Well--that's more for the men who are in training for bishops,
that they may be able to read the New Testament in the original."
"I want to learn Latin and Greek myself."
"A lofty desire. You must get a grammar of each tongue."
"I mean to go to Christminster some day."
Jude the Obscure |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: have. Xenophon also describes the development of
a cavalry force, and some tactical details to be
applied in the field and in festival exhibition.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7
The Hellenica 7
The Cyropaedia 8
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: in
their thoughts retain us.
7 I speed to you with powers that should be honoured, with
songs
distinguishing Heaven's mighty Daughters,
Morning and Night, the Two, as 'twere all-knowing: these bring
the
sacrifice unto the mortal.
8 You I extol, the nourishers of heroes bringing you gifts,
Vastospati
and Tvastar-
The Rig Veda |
