| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift: her bounden duty; that she may be still a comfort to us, and to all
others, who will want the benefit of her conversation, her advice,
her good offices, or her charity. And since Thou hast promised
that where two or three are gathered together in Thy Name, Thou
wilt be in the midst of them to grant their request, O Gracious
Lord, grant to us who are here met in Thy Name, that those
requests, which in the utmost sincerity and earnestness of our
hearts we have now made in behalf of this Thy distressed servant,
and of ourselves, may effectually be answered; through the merits
of Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN,
CHAPTER XIII - THE BEASTS' CONFESSION (1732).
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: daughter of self-will, and of that loud crying out about I, and me,
and mine, which is the very bird-call for all devils, and the broad
road which leads to death."
"It will lead him to his," said Sir Richard; "God grant it be not
upon Tower-hill! for since that Florida plot, and after that his
hopes of Irish preferment came to naught, he who could not help
himself by fair means has taken to foul ones, and gone over to
Italy to the Pope, whose infallibility has not been proof against
Stukely's wit; for he was soon his Holiness's closet counsellor,
and, they say, his bosom friend; and made him give credit to his
boasts that, with three thousand soldiers he would beat the English
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: downstairs room, which was in deep gloom, and then
unfastened the stair-door like one whose fingers knew
the tricks of the latches well. Her ascent of the
crooked staircase was a slower process, and her face,
as it rose into the light above the last stair,
encountered the gaze of all the party assembled in the
bedroom.
"----Being a few private friends I've asked in to keep
up club-walking at my own expense," the landlady
exclaimed at the sound of footsteps, as glibly as a
child repeating the Catechism, while she peered over
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