| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: stars, that I do verily think he'll read out his wife.
HODGE.
He skill of the stars! there's good-man Car of Fulhum,
he that carried us to the strong Ale, where goody
Trundell had her maid got with child: O he knows the
stars. He'll tickle you Charles Waine in nine degrees.
That same man will tell you goody Trundell when her
Ale shall miscarry, only by the stars.
SECOND SMITH.
Aye, that's a great virtue; indeed I think Thomas be no
body in comparison to him.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: downhill and uphill and on sloping ground; times, also, when he will
need to leap across an obstacle; or, take a flying leap from off a
bank;[1] or, jump down from a height, the rider must teach and train
himself and his horse to meet all emergencies. In this way the two
will have a chance of saving each the other, and may be expected to
increase their usefulness.
[1] {ekpedan} = exsilire in altum (Sturz, and so Berenger); "to leap
over ditches, and upon high places and down from them."
And here, if any reader should accuse us of repeating ourselves, on
the ground that we are only stating now what we said before on the
same topics,[2] we say that this is not mere repetition. In the former
On Horsemanship |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catherine de Medici by Honore de Balzac: Calvin shook France at the beginning of the twenty two years of
religious warfare now on the point of breaking out. This minister was
one of the hidden wheels whose movements can best exhibit the wide-
spread action of the Reform.
Chaudieu led Christophe to the water's edge through an underground
passage, which was like that of the Marion tunnel filled up by the
authorities about ten years ago. This passage, which was situated
between the Lecamus house and the one adjoining it, ran under the rue
de la Vieille-Pelleterie, and was called the Pont-aux-Fourreurs. It
was used by the dyers of the City to go to the river and wash their
flax and silks, and other stuffs. A little boat was at the entrance of
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