| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: and recognized him. At the first word that Bartolomeo said in his ear,
he took the Corsican away with him.
Murat, Lannes, and Rapp were at that moment in the cabinet of the
First Consul. As Lucien entered, followed by a man so singular in
appearance as Piombo, the conversation ceased. Lucien took Napoleon by
the arm and led him into the recess of a window. After exchanging a
few words with his brother, the First Consul made a sign with his
hand, which Murat and Lannes obeyed by retiring. Rapp pretended not to
have seen it, in order to remain where he was. Bonaparte then spoke to
him sharply, and the aide-de-camp, with evident unwillingness, left
the room. The First Consul, who listened for Rapp's step in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: of some strength and consideration, offered convenient head-
quarters, and there was ample room for Argyle's army to encamp
around him in the valley, where the Lochy joins Loch-Eil.
Several barges had attended, loaded with provisions, so that they
were in every respect as well accommodated as such an army wished
or expected to be. Argyle, in council with Auchenbreck and
Ardenvohr, expressed his full confidence that Montrose was now on
the brink of destruction; that his troops must gradually diminish
as he moved eastward through such uncouth paths; that if he went
westward, he must encounter Urrie and Baillie; if northward, fall
into the hands of Seaforth; or should he choose any halting-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: between causal and co-operative arts, which may be compared with the
distinction between primary and co-operative causes in the Timaeus; or
between cause and condition in the Phaedo; the passing mention of
economical science; the opposition of rest and motion, which is found in
all nature; the general conception of two great arts of composition and
division, in which are contained weaving, politics, dialectic; and in
connexion with the conception of a mean, the two arts of measuring.
In the Theaetetus, Plato remarks that precision in the use of terms, though
sometimes pedantic, is sometimes necessary. Here he makes the opposite
reflection, that there may be a philosophical disregard of words. The evil
of mere verbal oppositions, the requirement of an impossible accuracy in
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