| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: speakest of a Jew---of an Israelite,---as unapt to
restore gold, as the dry sand of his deserts to return
the cup of water which the pilgrim spills upon
them.''
``There is no more mercy in them,'' said another
of the banditti, ``than in an unbribed sheriffs officer.''
``It is, however, as I say,'' said Gurth.
``Strike a light instantly,'' said the Captain; ``I
will examine this said purse; and if it be as this
fellow says, the Jew's bounty is little less miraculous
than the stream which relieved his fathers in
Ivanhoe |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: sacred thing the Family, and put himself into a state of indignation
about these surreptitious and furtive ways of entering its honored
enclosure."
"Desroches can point out some such person to you. The government
cannot prevent a man from saying what he pleases."
"But," interposed Maxime, who was forced out of his passive role by
the minister's coldness, "is /not preventing/ all the help we are to
expect in this affair from the government?"
"You don't expect us, I hope, to take this matter upon ourselves?"
"No, of course not; but we have certainly supposed that you would take
some interest in the matter."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: the vales, is an admirable easement, refreshment, and great
benefit to the valetudinarian, feeble part of mankind; affording
those an easy and comfortable life, who would otherwise live
miserably, languish, and pine away.
"To this salutary conformation of the earth we may add another
great convenience of the hills, and that is affording commodious
places for habitation, serving (as an eminent author wordeth it)
as screens to keep off the cold and nipping blasts of the
northern and easterly winds, and reflecting the benign and
cherishing sunbeams and so rendering our habitations both more
comfortable and more cheerly in winter.
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