| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum: make amends, in some way. I don't know just
what Ozma will do to you, because this is the
first time one of us has broken a Law; but you
may be sure she will be just and merciful. Here
in the Emerald City people are too happy and
contented ever to do wrong; but perhaps you
came from some faraway corner of our land, and
having no love for Ozma carelessly broke one
of her Laws."
"Yes," said Ojo, "I've lived all my life in the
heart of a lonely forest, where I saw no one but
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: sentence [{oti . . . ippeuein}] as a gloss; Martin, p. 323,
emends.
[7] As to the legal exemption of orphans Schneid. cf. Dem. "Symm."
182. 15; Lys. "Against Diogeit." 24.
[8] Lit. "metoecs." See "Revenues," ii.
[9] Lit. "men the most antagonistic to the enemy." Is the author
thinking of Boeotian emigres? Cf. "Hell." VI. iii. 1, 5; Diod. xv.
46. 6.
[10] Lit. "with the consenting will of the gods these things all may
come to pass."
And now if the repetition of the phrase throughout this treatise "act
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: unclouded moon poured her light into this glade, and Hunsden held
out under her beam an ivory miniature.
Frances, with eagerness, examined it first; then she gave it to
me--still, however, pushing her little face close to mine, and
seeking in my eyes what I thought of the portrait. I thought it
represented a very handsome and very individual-looking female
face, with, as he had once said, "straight and harmonious
features." It was dark; the hair, raven-black, swept not only
from the brow, but from the temples--seemed thrust away
carelessly, as if such beauty dispensed with, nay, despised
arrangement. The Italian eye looked straight into you, and an
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