| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: spite of his refusals, and sent him to bed, but not to sleep; and
after a night of tossing, he started for Bideford, having obtained
the means for so doing from Mrs. Hawkins.
CHAPTER XIV
HOW SALVATION YEO SLEW THE KING OF THE GUBBINGS
"Ignorance and evil, even in full flight, deal terrible backhanded
strokes at their pursuers."--HELPS.
Now I am sorry to say, for the honor of my country, that it was by
no means a safe thing in those days to travel from Plymouth to the
north of Devon; because, to get to your journey's end, unless you
were minded to make a circuit of many miles, you must needs pass
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: neighbourhood or not, and uncertain how long they might have to
stay, it seemed incredible that soldiers should move from good
quarters to bad without motive.
I wandered down the garden, thinking sullenly of this, and
pettishly cutting off the heads of the flowers with my sheathed
sword. After all, if they found and arrested the man, what then?
I should have to make my peace with the Cardinal as I best might.
He would have gained his point, but not through me, and I should
have to look to myself. On the other hand, if I anticipated
them--and, as a fact, I believed that I could lay my hand on the
fugitive within a few hours--there would come a time when I must
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: out new methods of inquiry, of which historical criticism is one.
The Alexandrines combined a great love of learning with an
ignorance of the true principles of research, an enthusiastic
spirit for accumulating materials with a wonderful incapacity to
use them. Not among the hot sands of Egypt, or the Sophists of
Athens, but from the very heart of Greece rises the man of genius
on whose influence in the evolution of the philosophy of history I
have a short time ago dwelt. Born in the serene and pure air of
the clear uplands of Arcadia, Polybius may be said to reproduce in
his work the character of the place which gave him birth. For, of
all the historians - I do not say of antiquity but of all time -
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