| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: incident with unnecessary warmth.
"Yes, that was a case of carelessness on the part of the
president, the result of which was a thoughtless answer on the
part of the jury; but there is the Senate for cases like that."
"The Senate has rejected the appeal."
"Well, if the Senate has rejected it, there cannot have been
sufficient reasons for an appeal," said Rogozhinsky, evidently
sharing the prevailing opinion that truth is the product of
judicial decrees. "The Senate cannot enter into the question on
its merits. If there is a real mistake, the Emperor should be
petitioned."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lesser Hippias by Plato: seems to you to have been wrong in any point, or join with us in commending
him? There is the more reason why you should speak, because we are now
alone, and the audience is confined to those who may fairly claim to take
part in a philosophical discussion.
SOCRATES: I should greatly like, Eudicus, to ask Hippias the meaning of
what he was saying just now about Homer. I have heard your father,
Apemantus, declare that the Iliad of Homer is a finer poem than the Odyssey
in the same degree that Achilles was a better man than Odysseus; Odysseus,
he would say, is the central figure of the one poem and Achilles of the
other. Now, I should like to know, if Hippias has no objection to tell me,
what he thinks about these two heroes, and which of them he maintains to be
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: breathing flames against the remnant of Israel. But the Lord
put an end to his piping, and all these offences were
composed into one bloody grave.' No doubt this was written
to excuse his slaughter; and I have never heard it claimed
for Walker that he was either a just witness or an indulgent
judge. At least, in a merely human character, Haddo comes
off not wholly amiss in the matter of these Traquairs: not
that he showed any graces of the Christian, but had a sort of
Pagan decency, which might almost tempt one to be concerned
about his sudden, violent, and unprepared fate.
HEATHERCAT
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