| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: departed; if you are a Protestant, at least it will not hurt you to
say one for those who still live and suffer and toil among such
dangers.
After we had walked for four hours up the Tauernthal, we came to
the Matreier-Tauernhaus, an inn which is kept open all the year for
the shelter of travellers over the high pass that crosses the
mountain-range at this point, from north to south. There we dined.
It was a bare, rude place, but the dish of juicy trout was
garnished with flowers, each fish holding a big pansy in its mouth,
and as the maid set them down before me she wished me "a good
appetite," with the hearty old-fashioned Tyrolese courtesy which
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: exceeds my poor intellectual capacity that you must excuse my
seeking elsewhere for information which I can better understand."
"There again now," replied the pedagogue, "how fondly you fly
from him that would instruct you! Truly said Quintilian--"
"I pray, sir, let Quintilian be for the present, and answer, in a
word and in English, if your learning can condescend so far,
whether there is any place here where I can have opportunity to
refresh my horse until I can have him shod?"
"Thus much courtesy, sir," said the schoolmaster, "I can readily
render you, that although there is in this poor hamlet (NOSTRA
PAUPERA REGNA) no regular HOSPITIUM, as my namesake Erasmus
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: opportunity of learning.
THEAETETUS
by
Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Theodorus, Theaetetus.
Euclid and Terpsion meet in front of Euclid's house in Megara; they enter
the house, and the dialogue is read to them by a servant.
EUCLID: Have you only just arrived from the country, Terpsion?
TERPSION: No, I came some time ago: and I have been in the Agora looking
for you, and wondering that I could not find you.
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