| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: ought to have, as we maintain, a covering, appended to the corselet
and close-fitting. This will serve as an ornament, and if made as it
ought to be, will conceal the rider's face--if so he chooses--up to
the nose.
[1] Cf. "Mem." III. x.
[2] L. Dind. cf. Hom. "Il." viii. 326:
{. . . othi kleis apoergei
aukhena te stethos te, malista de kairion estin.}
"Where the collar-bone fenceth off neck and breast, and where is
the most deadly spot" (W. Leaf).
As to the helmet, the best kind, in our opinion, is one of the
On Horsemanship |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 8: 20 Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the Levites; according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses touching the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
Numbers 8: 21 And the Levites purified themselves, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a sacred gift before the LORD; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.
Numbers 8: 22 And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron, and before his sons; as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.
Numbers 8: 23 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
Numbers 8: 24 'This is that which pertaineth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to perform the service in the work of the tent of meeting;
Numbers 8: 25 and from the age of fifty years they shall return from the service of the work, and shall serve no more;
Numbers 8: 26 but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, but they shall do no manner of service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges.' Numbers 9: 1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying:
Numbers 9: 2 'Let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: thirst for sympathy and was silent when I would have given the world
to have confided the fatal secret. Yet, still, words like those
I have recorded would burst uncontrollably from me. I could offer
no explanation of them, but their truth in part relieved the burden
of my mysterious woe.
Upon this occasion my father said, with an expression of
unbounded wonder, "My dearest Victor, what infatuation is this?
My dear son, I entreat you never to make such an assertion again."
"I am not mad," I cried energetically; "the sun and the heavens,
who have viewed my operations, can bear witness of my truth.
I am the assassin of those most innocent victims; they died
Frankenstein |
