| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: traditions as Deacon Drowne, the carver. One of his productions,
an Indian chief, gilded all over, stood during the better part of
a century on the cupola of the Province House, bedazzling the
eyes of those who looked upward, like an angel of the sun.
Another work of the good deacon's hand--a reduced likeness of his
friend Captain Hunnewell, holding a telescope and quadrant--may
be seen to this day, at the corner of Broad and State streets,
serving in the useful capacity of sign to the shop of a nautical
instrument maker. We know not how to account for the inferiority
of this quaint old figure, as compared with the recorded
excellence of the Oaken Lady, unless on the supposition that in
Mosses From An Old Manse |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt
offer salt.
LEV 2:14 And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the
LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green
ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.
LEV 2:15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon:
it is a meat offering.
LEV 2:16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the
beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the
frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
LEV 3:1 And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: Whereon old Norwey, ouercome with ioy,
Giues him three thousand Crownes in Annuall Fee,
And his Commission to imploy those Soldiers
So leuied as before, against the Poleak:
With an intreaty heerein further shewne,
That it might please you to giue quiet passe
Through your Dominions, for his Enterprize,
On such regards of safety and allowance,
As therein are set downe
King. It likes vs well:
And at our more consider'd time wee'l read,
Hamlet |
