| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alcibiades II by Platonic Imitator: tyranny three or four days, he was in his turn conspired against and slain.
Or look at certain of our own citizens,--and of their actions we have been
not hearers, but eyewitnesses,--who have desired to obtain military
command: of those who have gained their object, some are even to this day
exiles from the city, while others have lost their lives. And even they
who seem to have fared best, have not only gone through many perils and
terrors during their office, but after their return home they have been
beset by informers worse than they once were by their foes, insomuch that
several of them have wished that they had remained in a private station
rather than have had the glories of command. If, indeed, such perils and
terrors were of profit to the commonwealth, there would be reason in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lesser Hippias by Plato: the scholar and critic, is of little importance to the general reader.
LESSER HIPPIAS
by
Plato (see Appendix I above)
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
INTRODUCTION.
The Lesser Hippias may be compared with the earlier dialogues of Plato, in
which the contrast of Socrates and the Sophists is most strongly exhibited.
Hippias, like Protagoras and Gorgias, though civil, is vain and boastful:
he knows all things; he can make anything, including his own clothes; he is
a manufacturer of poems and declamations, and also of seal-rings, shoes,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: that dollar, than the woman in the Judgment of Solomon to the
disseverment of the child of her bowels."
"The parallel will scarce hold, Captain Dalgetty, for I think you
would rather consent to the dividing of the dollar, than give it
up entire to your competitor. However, in the way of arrears, I
may promise you the other half-dollar at the end of the
campaign."
"Ah! these arrearages!" said Captain Dalgetty, "that are always
promised, and always go for nothing! Spain, Austria, and Sweden,
all sing one song. Oh! long life to the Hoganmogans! if they
were no officers of soldiers, they were good paymasters.--And
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