| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: [6] See "Hell." VI. i. 15; "Pol. Lac." v. 7; "Cyrop." I. v. 12.
[7] Or, "the strongholds of the enemy might to all intents and
purposes have been open places."
When he was on the march, and was well aware that an enemy might, if
he chose, deliver battle, his habit was to lead his troops in compact
battle order ready to confront emergencies, with soft, slow step,
advancing, as it were, with maidenly demureness,[8] for in such
procedure, as he believed, lay the secret of true calm, engendering a
dauntless self-assurance, imperturbable, unerring, impervious to
treacherous assault. Therefore by such behaviour he was a terror to
the enemy, whilst he infused courage and strength in the hearts of his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: Musgrave, or a worthy and hospitable chieftain like our excellent
landlord, should act as my executor."
Both hastened to protest that they had no such object, and
insisted again upon the impassable character of the Highland
paths. Angus M'Aulay mumbled over a number of hard Gaellic
names, descriptive of the difficult passes, precipices, corries,
and beals, through which he said the road lay to Inverary, when
old Donald, who had now entered, sanctioned his master's account
of these difficulties, by holding up his hands, and elevating his
eyes, and shaking his head, at every gruttural which M'Aulay
pronounced. But all this did not move the inflexible Captain.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac: honor, which is the most loyal known.'
" 'If it is all the same to you,' said she, 'I would rather it should
be with your own.'
"Thereupon she set her head-kerchief straight, and settled herself to
tell the tale; for there is no doubt a particular attitude of
confidence and security is necessary to the telling of a narrative.
The best tales are told at a certain hour--just as we are all here at
table. No one ever told a story well standing up, or fasting.
"If I were to reproduce exactly Rosalie's diffuse eloquence, a whole
volume would scarcely contain it. Now, as the event of which she gave
me a confused account stands exactly midway between the notary's
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