| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: say was, "dark and quiet." He is off now buying a carriage and horses.
He says that he will later on try to buy additional horses, so that we
may be able to change them on the way. We have something more than 70
miles before us. The country is lovely, and most interesting. If only we
were under different conditions, how delightful it would be to see it all.
If Jonathan and I were driving through it alone what a pleasure it would be.
To stop and see people, and learn something of their life, and to fill our
minds and memories with all the color and picturesqueness of the whole wild,
beautiful country and the quaint people! But, alas!
Later.--Dr. Van Helsing has returned. He has got the carriage
and horses. We are to have some dinner, and to start in an hour.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: room, upon the instant; and your sight shall be blasted by a
prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan."
"Sir," said I, affecting a coolness that I was far from truly
possessing, "you speak enigmas, and you will perhaps not wonder
that I hear you with no very strong impression of belief. But I
have gone too far in the way of inexplicable services to pause
before I see the end."
"It is well," replied my visitor. "Lanyon, you remember your
vows: what follows is under the seal of our profession. And now,
you who have so long been bound to the most narrow and material
views, you who have denied the virtue of transcendental medicine,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: of Agesilaus a pattern and example. He was God-fearing, he was just in
all his dealings, sound of soul and self-controlled. How then shall we
who imitate him become his opposite, unholy, unjust, tyrannical,
licentious? And, truth to say, this man prided himself, not so much on
being a king over others as on ruling himself,[2] not so much on
leading his citizens to attack the enemy as on guiding them to embrace
all virtue.
[1] See Aeschin. "c. Ctes." p. 52, 25; Plat. "Phileb." 56 B.
[2] See Plut. "Apophth. Lac." p. 104.
Yet let it not be supposed, because he whom we praise has finished
life, that our discourse must therefore be regarded as a funeral
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