| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: been only in their outside crust and shell. What tore the nation to
pieces during the Reign of Terror, but the boundless variety and
originality of the characters which found themselves suddenly in
free rivalry? What else gave to the undisciplined levies, the
bankrupt governments, the parvenu heroes of the Republic, a manifold
force, a self-dependent audacity, which made them the conquerors,
and the teachers (for good and evil) of the civilised world? If
there was one doctrine which the French Revolution specially
proclaimed--which it caricatured till it brought it into temporary
disrepute--it was this: that no man is like another; that in each
is a God-given "individuality," an independent soul, which no
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: little, say so."
"It is too little, sire," replied D'Artagnan, with
inimitable seriousness. "In the first place, I do not at all
wish to sell it; but your majesty desires me to do so, and
that is an order. I obey, then, but the respect I owe to the
illustrious warrior who hears me commands me to estimate at
a third more the reward of my victory. I ask then three
hundred thousand crowns for the sword, or I shall give it to
your majesty for nothing." And taking it by the point he
presented it to the king. Charles broke into hilarious
laughter.
Ten Years Later |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: and clearer."
"I don't believe he knows shucks!" was Alice's comment
when she closed the street door upon Dr. Ledsmar.
"Anybody could have come in and looked at a sick man
and said, 'Leave him alone.' You expect something more
from a doctor. It's his business to say what to do.
And I suppose he'll charge two dollars for just telling me
that my husband was resting!"
"No," said Brother Soulsby, "he said he never practised,
and that he would come only as a friend."
"Well, it isn't my idea of a friend--not to prescribe
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