| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: citizens to soldiery, to render them brave warriors, and well armed,
confers no pleasure on him; rather he will take delight to make his
foreigners more formidable than those to whom the state belongs, and
these foreigners he will depend on as his body-guard.
[5] Or, "depreciate the land which gave him birth." Holden cf.
"Cyrop." VII. ii. 22. See Sturz, s.v.
Nay more, not even in the years of plenty,[6] when abundance of all
blessings reigns, not even then may the tyrant's heart rejoice amid
the general joy, for the greater the indigence of the community the
humbler he will find them: that is his theory.
[6] "In good seasons," "seasons of prosperity." Cf. Aristot. "Pol." v.
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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: embarrassment, tell me by what name I am to address my
knight-errant, for I find myself reduced to the awkwardness
of the pronoun.'
Had borrowing been in question, the wisdom of our ancestors
had come lightly to the young man's aid; but upon what
pretext could he refuse so generous a trust? Upon none he
saw, that was not unpardonably wounding; and the bright eyes
and the high spirits of his companion had already made a
breach in the rampart of Challoner's caution. The whole
thing, he reasoned, might be a mere mystification, which it
were the height of solemn folly to resent. On the other
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: some day and to my thinking it will be a longer and harder one than the last.
What say you, Wetzel?"
"I ain't sayin' much, but I don't calkilate on goin' on any long hunts this
summer," answered the hunter.
"And do you think Tarhe, Wingenund, Pipe, Cornplanter, and all those chiefs
will unite their forces and attack us?" asked Betty of Wetzel.
"Cornplanter won't. He has been paid for most of his land and he ain't so
bitter. Tarhe is not likely to bother us. But Pipe and Wingenund and Red
Fox--they all want blood."
"Have you seen these chiefs?" said Betty.
"Yes, I know 'em all and they all know me," answered the hunter. "I've watched
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