| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac: to Cesar, who trembled with anxiety.
"Tu Tillet takes der graadest inderest in you," he said.
"At last," thought the poor man, "we are coming to the point."
"His ledder gif you in my house a creydit vich is only limided by der
limids of my privade fortune."
The exhilarating balm infused into the water offered by the angel to
Hagar in the desert, must have been the same cordial which flowed
through Cesar's veins as he listened to these words. The wily banker
retained the horrible pronunciation of the German Jews,--possibly that
he might be able to deny promises actually given, but only half-
understood.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: Was with long use account no sin.
The beauty of this sinful dame
Made many princes thither frame,
To seek her as a bed-fellow,
In marriage-pleasures play-fellow:
Which to prevent he made a law,
To keep her still, and men in awe,
That whoso ask'd her for his wife,
His riddle told not, lost his life:
So for her many a wight did die,
As yon grim looks do testify.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: suddenly and strangely turned to examine the wonders of nature with
an earnestness, with a reverence, and therefore with an accuracy,
with which they had never been investigated before. "Nature," says
Professor Planchon, "long veiled in mysticism and scholasticism, was
opening up infinite vistas. A new superstition, the exaggerated
worship of the ancients, was nearly hindering this movement of
thought towards facts. Nevertheless, Learning did her work. She
rediscovered, reconstructed, purified, commented on the texts of
ancient authors. Then came in observation, which showed that more
was to be seen in one blade of grass than in any page of Pliny.
Rondelet was in the middle of this crisis a man of transition, while
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