| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: the reader; adding, that I see no authority for the relation,
neither do the relators agree either in the time of it, or in the
particulars of the fact; that is to say, in whose reign, or under
what government all this happened; in what year, and the like; so I
satisfy myself with transcribing the matter of fact, and then leave
it as I find it.
In this vast tract of meadows are fed a prodigious number of black
cattle which are said to be fed up for the fattest beef, though not
the largest in England; and the quantity is so great, as that they
not only supply the city of Norwich, the town of Yarmouth, and
county adjacent, but send great quantities of them weekly in all
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: state throughout the length and breadth of Hellas? [During these
festivals, of course, the transaction of any sort of affairs of state
is still more out of the question.][4] In the next place, only
consider the number of cases they have to decide--what with private
suits and public causes and scrutinies of accounts, etc., more than
the whole of the rest of mankind put together; while the senate has
multifarious points to advise upon concerning peace and war,[5]
concerning ways and means, concerning the framing and passing of
laws,[6] and concerning the thousand and one matters affecting the
state perpetually occurring, and endless questions touching the
allies; besides the receipt of the tribute, the superintendence of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo: appetite, and shook her head sadly as she bore the untasted food
back to the kitchen.
She sometimes found a portfolio of drawings lying open upon his
study table. She remembered the zeal with which he had planned
to remodel the church and parsonage, when he first came to them;
how his enthusiasm had gradually died for lack of encouragement;
and how he had at last put his books in a cupboard, where they
grew dusty from long neglect. She marvelled at their
reappearance now, but something in his set, far-away look made
her afraid to inquire. Thus she went on from day to day, growing
more impatient with Hasty and more silent with the pastor.
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