| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: iure et isdem legibus utantur, unum imperium unumque magistratum cum ipsis
habeant, deterrere potuelint quin cum iis consentirent.
Cum ab iis quaereret quae civitates quantaeque in armis essent et quid
in bello possent, sic reperiebat: plerosque Belgos esse ortos a Germanis
Rhenumque antiquitus traductos propter loci fertilitatem ibi consedisse
Gallosque qui ea loca incolerent expulisse, solosque esse qui, patrum
nostrorum memoria omni Gallia vexata, Teutonos Cimbrosque intra suos fines
ingredi prohibuerint; qua ex re fieri uti earum rerum memoria magnam sibi
auctoritatem Illagnosque spiritus in re militari sumerent. De numero
eorum omnia se habere explorata Remi dicebant, propterea quod
propinquitatibus adfinitatibus quo coniuncti quantam quisque multitudinem
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: benches; and on one of these the doctor motioned me to take a
seat; and passing by another door into the interior of the
house, he left me to myself. Presently I heard the jar of
iron from the far end of the building; and this was followed
by the same throbbing noise that had startled me in the
valley, but now so near at hand as to be menacing by
loudness, and even to shake the house with every recurrence
of the stroke. I had scarce time to master my alarm when the
doctor returned, and almost in the same moment my mother
appeared upon the threshold. But how am I to describe to you
the peace and ravishment of that face? Years seemed to have
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended
address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat
in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper.
Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations
have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great
contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies
of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress
of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known
to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory
and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction
in regard to it is ventured.
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