| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: persons were engaged in this movement; nevertheless we give
it, for we wish to present with impartiality all the alleged
facts to the reader:
'Towards the evening Mr. Robinsone and Mr. Crukshank gaue me
a visite; I called for some ale purposelie to heare one of
them blesse it. It fell Mr. Robinsone to seeke the blessing,
who said one of the most bombastick graces that ever I heard
in my life. He summoned God Allmightie very imperiouslie to
be their secondarie (for that was his language). "And if,"
said he, "thou wilt not be our Secondarie, we will not fight
for thee at all, for it is not our cause bot thy cause; and
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: own people, and to anyone that presented himself at the castle.
The slaves, alert as dogs, glided about noiselessly in felt sandals,
carrying dishes to and fro.
The table of the proconsul was placed beneath the gilded balcony upon
a platform of sycamore wood. Rich tapestries from Babylon were hung
about the pavilion, giving a certain effect of seclusion.
Upon three ivory couches, one facing the great hall, and the other two
placed one on either side of the pavilion, reclined Vitellius, his son
Aulus, and Antipas; the proconsul being near the door, at the left,
Aulus on the right, the tetrarch occupying the middle couch.
Antipas wore a heavy black mantle, the texture of which was almost
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