| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Disputation of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Dr. Martin Luther: 22. [72] Qui vero, contra libidinem ac licentiam verborum
Concionatoris veniarum curam agit, sit ille benedictus.
23. [73] Sicut Papa iuste fulminat eos, qui in fraudem negocii
veniarum quacunque arte machinantur,
24. [74] Multomagnis fulminare intendit eos, qui per veniarum
pretextum in fraudem sancte charitatis et veritatis machinantur,
25. [75] Opinari venias papales tantas esse, ut solvere possint
hominem, etiam si quis per impossibile dei genitricem violasset,
Est insanire.
1. [76] Dicimus contra, quod venie papales nec minimum venialium
peccatorum tollere possint quo ad culpam.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: expedients, 'till he hath at least some glympse of hope, that
there will ever be some hearty and sincere attempt to put them
into practice.
But, as to my self, having been wearied out for many years with
offering vain, idle, visionary thoughts, and at length utterly
despairing of success, I fortunately fell upon this proposal,
which, as it is wholly new, so it hath something solid and real,
of no expence and little trouble, full in our own power, and
whereby we can incur no danger in disobliging England. For this
kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of
too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: graceful combination of high responsibilities and amiable qualities.
But when he sat there within sight, laughing and talking with his
customary good humor and simplicity, she measured it more accurately,
and she felt acutely that if Lord Lambeth's position was heroic,
there was but little of the hero in the young man himself.
Then her imagination wandered away from him--very far away; for it was
an incontestable fact that at such moments he seemed distinctly dull.
I am afraid that while Bessie's imagination was thus invidiously
roaming, she cannot have been herself a very lively companion;
but it may well have been that these occasional fits of indifference
seemed to Lord Lambeth a part of the young girl's personal charm.
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