| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: and courage to brave all difficulties and dangers to
accomplish a work which will, if successful, immortalise you
in the annals of fame.' The style might be bettered, but the
sentiment is charming.
(1) The grounds for the rejection of the Bill by the
House of Lords in 1802-3 had been that the extent of coast
over which dues were proposed to be levied would be too great.
Before going to Parliament again, the Board of Northern
Lights, desiring to obtain support and corroboration for Mr.
Stevenson's views, consulted first Telford, who was unable to
give the matter his attention, and then (on Stevenson's
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato: your words will say how truly you have described philosophers, and our
people at home will likewise say that the life which philosophers desire is
in reality death, and that they have found them out to be deserving of the
death which they desire.
And they are right, Simmias, in thinking so, with the exception of the
words 'they have found them out'; for they have not found out either what
is the nature of that death which the true philosopher deserves, or how he
deserves or desires death. But enough of them:--let us discuss the matter
among ourselves: Do we believe that there is such a thing as death?
To be sure, replied Simmias.
Is it not the separation of soul and body? And to be dead is the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs:
"Prisoners do not go their own way," I answered, "and you are
prisoners--prisoners of the Prince of Helium."
Before they could make answer a door upon the opposite side of
the apartment opened and a score of yellow men poured into the
apartment. For an instant the nobles looked relieved, and then as
their eyes fell upon the leader of the new party their faces fell,
for he was Talu, rebel Prince of Marentina, and they knew that they
could look for neither aid nor mercy at his hands.
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