| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vailima Prayers & Sabbath Morn by Robert Louis Stevenson: country. Protect the innocent, restrain the greedy and the
treacherous, lead us out of our tribulation into a quiet land.
Look down upon ourselves and upon our absent dear ones. Help us
and them; prolong our days in peace and honour. Give us health,
food, bright weather, and light hearts. In what we meditate of
evil, frustrate our will; in what of good, further our endeavours.
Cause injuries to be forgot and benefits to be remembered.
Let us lie down without fear and awake and arise with exultation.
For his sake, in whose words we now conclude.
IN TIME OF RAIN
WE thank Thee, Lord, for the glory of the late days and the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: writhing his mouth about, or as the French call it, 'faire ses
forces.'"
To explain what is meant by flexible and stiff as applied to a bit, we
will describe the matter. A flexible bit is one in which the axles
have their points of junction broad and smooth,[8] so as to bend
easily; and where the several parts fitting round the axles, being
large of aperture and not too closely packed, have greater
flexibility; whereas, if the several parts do not slide to and fro
with ease, and play into each other, that is what we call a stiff bit.
Whatever the kind of bit may be, the rider must carry out precisely
the same rules in using it, as follows, if he wishes to turn out a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: fiction are always the most real. And yet I had read before this GUY
MANNERING, and some of WAVERLEY, with no such delighted sense of
truth and humour, and I read immediately after the greater part of
the Waverley Novels, and was never moved again in the same way or to
the same degree. One circumstance is suspicious: my critical
estimate of the Waverley Novels has scarce changed at all since I was
ten. ROB ROY, GUY MANNERING, and REDGAUNTLET first; then, a little
lower; THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL; then, after a huge gulf, IVANHOE and
ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN: the rest nowhere; such was the verdict of the
boy. Since then THE ANTIQUARY, ST. RONAN'S WELL, KENILWORTH, and THE
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN have gone up in the scale; perhaps IVANHOE AND
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