| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Love's sweet breath,--a newborn life,--
Learn I from his mouth alone,
In his breath alone is rife!
1815.
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THE SUBLIME TYPE.
THE sun, whom Grecians Helms call,
His heavenly path with pride doth tread,
And, to subdue the world's wide all,
Looks round, beneath him, high o'er head.
He sees the fairest goddess pine,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Britain by Washington Irving: like those of the Miss Lambs, parading about Little Britain.
I still had my hopes that all this folly would gradually die
away; that the Lambs might move out of the neighborhood;
might die, or might run away with attorneys' apprentices; and
that quiet and simplicity might be again restored to the
community. But unluckily a rival power arose. An opulent
oilman died, and left a widow with a large jointure and a family
of buxom daughters. The young ladies had long been repining
in secret at the parsimony of a prudent father, which kept down
all their elegant aspirings. Their ambition, being now no longer
restrained, broke out into a blaze, and they openly took the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: particular afford the curious phenomenon of a French and English
legislation, as well as a French and English population, which
are gradually combining with each other. See the "Digeste des
Lois de la Louisiane," in two volumes; and the "Traite sur les
Regles des Actions civiles," printed in French and English at New
Orleans in 1830.]
My present object is to consider the jury as a political
institution, and any other course would divert me from my
subject. Of trial by jury, considered as a judicial institution,
I shall here say but very few words. When the English adopted
trial by jury they were a semi-barbarous people; they are become,
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