| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: incumbents who were put in the places of the ejected
preachers, and were generally very mean and despicable in all
respects. They were the worst preachers I ever heard; they
were ignorant to a reproach; and many of them were openly
vicious. They . . . were indeed the dreg and refuse of the
northern parts. Those of them who arose above contempt or
scandal were men of such violent tempers that they were as
much hated as the others were despised.' (2) It was little
to be wondered at, from this account that the country-folk
refused to go to the parish church, and chose rather to
listen to outed ministers in the fields. But this was not to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: Even that of a woman.
"Between you and me
Heaven fixes a gulf, over which you must see
That our guardian angels can bear us no more.
We each of us stand on an opposite shore.
Trust a woman's opinion for once. Women learn,
By an instinct men never attain, to discern
Each other's true natures. Matilda is fair,
Matilda is young--see her now, sitting there!--
How tenderly fashion'd--(oh, is she not? say,)
To love and be loved!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: several journeys and
picked quantities of nuts.
They carried them away in
bags, and stored them in
several hollow stumps near
the tree where they had built
their nest.
WHEN these stumps were
full, they began to
empty the bags into a hole
high up a tree, that had belonged
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