| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac: we were housed, my humble friend and I. We dined together.
Bourgeat, who earned about fifty sous a day, had saved a hundred
crowns or so; he would soon be able to gratify his ambition by
buying a barrel and a horse. On learning of my situation--for he
extracted my secrets with a quiet craftiness and good nature, of
which the remembrance touches my heart to this day, he gave up
for a time the ambition of his whole life; for twenty-two years
he had been carrying water in the street, and he now devoted his
hundred crowns to my future prospects."
Desplein at these words clutched Bianchon's arm tightly. "He gave
me the money for my examination fees! That man, my friend,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: of excommunications. The parishes have been vexed in many ways
by the dealers in indulgences. There were endless contentions
between the pastors and the monks concerning the parochial
right, confessions, burials, sermons on extraordinary
occasions, and innumerable other things. Issues of this sort
we have passed over so that the chief points in this matter,
having been briefly set forth, might be the more readily
understood. Nor has anything been here said or adduced to the
reproach of any one. Only those things have been recounted
whereof we thought that it was necessary to speak, in order
that it might be understood that in doctrine and ceremonies
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: the breed.[4]
[1] {stelmoniai}, al. {telamonias}, broad belts or girths, corselets.
Pollux, v. 55.
[2] Pollux, v. 56.
[3] Lit. "since those who make the collar out of the leash do not keep
hold (al. take care) of their hounds well."
[4] See "A Day with Xenophon's Harriers," "Macmillan's Mag." Jan.
1895, p. 183.
As to taking the hounds out to hunt, no hound ought to be taken out
which refuses its food, a conclusive proof that the animal is ailing.
Nor again, when a violent wind is blowing, for three good reasons: the
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