| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: of honour not to make use professionally of my knowledge of them.
I HAD no knowledge - nobody had any. It was humiliating, but I
could bear it - they only annoyed me now. At last they even bored
me, and I accounted for my confusion - perversely, I allow - by the
idea that Vereker had made a fool of me. The buried treasure was a
bad joke, the general intention a monstrous pose.
The great point of it all is, however, that I told George Corvick
what had befallen me and that my information had an immense effect
upon him. He had at last come back, but so, unfortunately, had
Mrs. Erme, and there was as yet, I could see, no question of his
nuptials. He was immensely stirred up by the anecdote I had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: [3] Or, "the dishonest, the lascivious, and the servile."
[4] "They have no aspiration even to be free," "they are content to
wallow in the slough of despond." The {adikoi} (unjust) correspond
to the {dikaioi} (just), {akrateis} (incontinent) to the {sophoi}
(wise) (Breit. cf. "Mem." III. ix. 4, {sophian de kai sophrosunen
ou diorizen}), {andrapododeis} (servile) to the {kasmioi},
{andreioi} (orderly, courageous).
This, then, I say, appears to me a sore affliction, that we should
look upon the one set as good men, and yet be forced to lean upon the
other.
And further, even a tyrant cannot but be something of a patriot--a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: [25] It appears, then, that the Xenophontean Socrates has {episteme}
of a sort.
[26] Or, "a series of resemblances," "close parallels," reading
{epideiknus}: or if with Breit. {apodeiknus}, transl. "by proving
such or such a thing is like some other thing known to me
already."
Isch. Do you suppose if I began to question you concerning money and
its quality,[27] I could possibly persuade you that you know the
method to distinguish good from false coin? Or could I, by a string of
questions about flute-players, painters, and the like, induce you to
believe that you yourself know how to play the flute, or paint, and so
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