| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: their decay in valor, encourageth a war.
As for the weapons, it hardly falleth under rule
and observation: yet we see even they, have re-
turns and vicissitudes. For certain it is, that ord-
nance was known in the city of the Oxidrakes in
India; and was that, which the Macedonians
called thunder and lightning, and magic. And it
is well known that the use of ordnance, hath been
in China above two thousand years. The conditions
of weapons, and their improvement, are; First, the
fetching afar off; for that outruns the danger; as
Essays of Francis Bacon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: purposes of war.
[7] Al. "whistling," and see Berenger, ii. 68. {poppusmos}, a sound
from the lips; {klogmos}, from the cheek.
As to the sluggish type of animal, I need only suggest to do
everything the opposite to what we advise as appropriate in dealing
with an animal of high spirit.
X
But possibly you are not content with a horse serviceable for war. You
want to find him him a showy, attractive animal, with a certain
grandeur of bearing. If so, you must abstain from pulling at his mouth
with the bit, or applying the spur and whip--methods commonly adopted
On Horsemanship |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: wherever it goes.
'An' he says, says he, Mis' Corey, as haow
he sot to look fer Seth's caows, frightened ez he was an' faound
'em in the upper pasture nigh the Devil's Hop Yard in an awful
shape. Haff on 'em's clean gone, an' nigh haff o' them that's
left is sucked most dry o' blood, with sores on 'em like they's
ben on Whateleys cattle ever senct Lavinny's black brat was born.
Seth hes gone aout naow to look at 'em, though I'll vaow he won't
keer ter git very nigh Wizard Whateley's! Cha'ncey didn't look
keerful ter see whar the big matted-daown swath led arter it leff
the pasturage, but he says he thinks it p'inted towards the glen
The Dunwich Horror |
