| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: [7] Or, "to each set of occurrences."
[8] Al. "when the horse is being brought to a poise" (Morgan); and see
Hermann ap. Schneid., {analambanein} = retinere equum, anhalten,
pariren. i.e. "rein in" of the "Parade."
It is a correct principle to vary these exercises, which should be
gone through sometimes in one place and sometimes in another, and
should sometimes be shorter and sometimes longer in duration. The
horse will take much more kindly to them if you do not confine him to
one place and one routine.
Since it is a matter of prime necessity that the rider should keep his
seat, while galloping full speed on every sort of ground, and at the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: flowers once more for his memory.
Then he told himself that it was a far finer thing to hew his own way
through serried hostile mobs of aristocrats or philistines by repeated
successful strokes, than to reach the goal through a woman's favor.
Sooner or later his genius should shine out; it had been so with the
others, his predecessors; they had tamed society. Women would love him
when that day came! The example of Napoleon, which, unluckily for this
nineteenth century of ours, has filled a great many ordinary persons
with aspirations after extraordinary destinies,--the example of
Napoleon occurred to Lucien's mind. He flung his schemes to the winds
and blamed himself for thinking of them. For Lucien was so made that
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