| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: shambling step. He was sauntering along the road. On the right
was the green of the clearing, on the left a golden sea of ripe
rye stretched to the very horizon. He was red and perspiring, a
white cap with a straight jockey peak, evidently a gift from some
open-handed young gentleman, perched jauntily on his handsome
flaxen head. Across his shoulder hung a game-bag with a blackcock
lying in it. The man held a double-barrelled gun cocked in his
hand, and screwed up his eyes in the direction of his lean old
dog who was running on ahead sniffing the bushes. There was
stillness all round, not a sound . . . everything living was
hiding away from the heat.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: Amphicrates rather than Xenophon; and then what a strange notion
to suppose that modesty is always without exception, expressed in
the eye!"--H. L. Howell, "Longinus," p. 8. See "Spectator," No.
354.
[7] See Paus. VII. i. 8, the {phidition} or {philition}; "Hell." V.
iv. 28.
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But if he was thus careful in the education of the stripling,[1] the
Spartan lawgiver showed a still greater anxiety in dealing with those
who had reached the prime of opening manhood; considering their
immense importance to the city in the scale of good, if only they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: them, and fair spacious rooms and galleries in them, little
inferior to some princes' palaces." Moreover, churches designed
by the genius of Christopher Wren, adorned with spires, steeples,
and minarets, intersected the capital at all points.
This new, handsome, and populous city presented an animated, ever
changing, and merry scene. From "the high street which is called
the Strand," far eastwards, great painted signs, emblazoned with
heraldic arms, or ornamented with pictures of grotesque birds and
animals, swung above shop-doors and taverns. Stalls laden with
wares of every description, "set out with decorations as valuable
as those of the stage," extended into the thoroughfares. In the
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