| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: engaging him in the plain or upon the hills, as they preferred. And
once more, in the ensuing year,[24] he marched against Thebes, and now
surmounting these palisades and entrenchments at Scolus,[25] he
ravaged the remainder of Boeotia.
[22] B.C. 378.
[23] See "Hell." V. iv. 34 foll.; for the site see Breitenbach, ad
loc.
[24] B.C. 377.
[25] See "Hell." V. iv. 47.
Hitherto fortune had smiled in common upon the king himself and upon
his city. And as for the disasters which presently befell, no one can
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett: the grocery. Mrs. Todd was alert in a moment.
"There! I might have known!" she exclaimed. "It's the 15th
of August, when he goes and gets his money. He heired an annuity
from an uncle o' his on his mother's side. I understood the uncle
said none o' Sam Begg's wife's folks should make free with it, so
after Sam's gone it'll all be past an' spent, like last summer.
That's what Sam prospers on now, if you can call it prosperin'.
Yes, I might have known. 'Tis the 15th o' August with him, an' he
gener'ly stops to dinner with a cousin's widow on the way home.
Feb'uary n' August is the times. Takes him 'bout all day to go an'
come."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: able result of his arrival, however, was the order which was
given to raise the camp that very day, and remove the head-
quarters to Tomsk. This was the accomplishment of
Michael's most fervent desire. His intention, as has been
said, was to reach Tomsk concealed amongst the other pris-
oners; that is to say, without any risk of falling into the
hands of the scouts who swarmed about the approaches to
this important town. However, in consequence of the ar-
rival of Ivan Ogareff, he questioned whether it would not
be better to give up his first plan and attempt to escape dur-
ing the journey.
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