| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7
The Hellenica 7
The Cyropaedia 8
Anabasis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: have known!"
She gave a wan smile which seemed to Stransom stranger even than
the fact itself. "I never, never spoke of him."
He looked again about the room. "Why then, if your life had been
so full of him?"
"Mayn't I put you that question as well? Hadn't your life also
been full of him?"
"Any one's, every one's life who had the wonderful experience of
knowing him. I never spoke of him," Stransom added in a moment,
"because he did me - years ago - an unforgettable wrong." She was
silent, and with the full effect of his presence all about them it
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Persuasion by Jane Austen: They did not always think alike. His value for rank and connexion
she perceived was greater than hers. It was not merely complaisance,
it must be a liking to the cause, which made him enter warmly
into her father and sister's solicitudes on a subject which
she thought unworthy to excite them. The Bath paper one morning
announced the arrival of the Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple,
and her daughter, the Honourable Miss Carteret; and all the comfort
of No.--, Camden Place, was swept away for many days; for the Dalrymples
(in Anne's opinion, most unfortunately) were cousins of the Elliots;
and the agony was how to introduce themselves properly.
Anne had never seen her father and sister before in contact with nobility,
Persuasion |
