| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: this Commission. The question was discussed in Soviets and
Conferences of every kind all over the country. Thus, on
January 1st an All-Russian Conference of local
"departments for the registration and distribution of labor,"
after prolonged argument, contributed their views. They
pointed out (1) the need of bringing to work numbers
of persons who instead of doing the skilled labor for which
they were qualified were engaged in petty profiteering, etc.;
(2) that there evaporation of skilled labor into unproductive
speculation could at least be checked by the introduction of
labor books, which would give some sort of registration of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: neck from the arm of a wooden gibbet, and beside it
knelt a woman gowned in rich cloth of gold and many
jewels. Her face was averted and her arms were out-
stretched toward the dangling form that swung and
twisted from the grim, gaunt arm. Her figure was
racked with choking sobs of horror-stricken grief. Pres-
ently she staggered to her feet and turned away, bury-
ing her face in her hands; but he saw her features for
an instant then--the woman who openly and alone
mourned the dead Outlaw of Torn was Bertrade de
Montfort.
The Outlaw of Torn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Apology by Xenophon: Richter, "Xen. Stud." pp. 61-96; M. Schanz, "Platos Apologia."
[2] Or possibly, "his deliberate behaviour."
[3] Or, "have succeeded in hitting off"; "done full justice to."
[4] Or, "the magniloquence of the master."
[5] Or, "so that according to them his lofty speech seems rather
foolhardy."
[6] See "Mem." IV. viii. 4 foll.), a passage of which this is either
an "ebauchement" or a "rechauffe."
[7] Or, "the philosopher's cast of thought."
[8] Dikasteries.
[9] {to daimonion}.
The Apology |
