| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Historical Mystery by Honore de Balzac: entered their carriage; the corporal showed them their road and
accompanied them to a village where they passed the night. The next
day they left the field of battle behind them, followed by the thunder
of the cannon,--eight hundred pieces,--which pursued them for ten
hours. While still on their way they learned of the amazing victory of
Jena.
Eight days later, they were driving through the faubourg of Troyes,
where they learned that an order of the chief justice, transmitted
through the /procureur imperial/ of Troyes, commanded the release of
the four gentlemen on bail during the Emperor's pleasure. But Michu's
sentence was confirmed, and the warrant for his execution had been
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: But when we got to Norderney, we found the CAROLINE with shore end
lying apparently aground, and could not understand her signals; so
we had to anchor suddenly and I went off in a small boat with the
captain to the CAROLINE. It was cold by this time, and my arm was
rather stiff and I was tired; I hauled myself up on board the
CAROLINE by a rope and found H- and two men on board. All the rest
were trying to get the shore end on shore, but had failed and
apparently had stuck on shore, and the waves were getting up. We
had anchored in the right place and next morning we hoped the shore
end would be laid, so we had only to go back. It was of course
still colder and quite night. I went to bed and hoped to sleep,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: of weaving differs only in name, as the political differs from the royal
science. Thus we have drawn several distinctions, but as yet have not
distinguished the weaving of garments from the kindred and co-operative
arts. For the first process to which the material is subjected is the
opposite of weaving--I mean carding. And the art of carding, and the whole
art of the fuller and the mender, are concerned with the treatment and
production of clothes, as well as the art of weaving. Again, there are the
arts which make the weaver's tools. And if we say that the weaver's art is
the greatest and noblest of those which have to do with woollen garments,--
this, although true, is not sufficiently distinct; because these other arts
require to be first cleared away. Let us proceed, then, by regular steps:
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