| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: have desired, and could not repress the question, "Who is Mr. Ladislaw?"
"A young relative of Mr. Casaubon's," said Sir James, promptly.
His good-nature often made him quick and clear-seeing
in personal matters, and he had divined from Dorothea's
glance at her husband that there was some alarm in her mind.
"A very nice young fellow--Casaubon has done everything for him,"
explained Mr. Brooke. "He repays your expense in him, Casaubon,"
he went on, nodding encouragingly. "I hope he will stay with me
a long while and we shall make something of my documents. I have
plenty of ideas and facts, you know, and I can see he is just the man
to put them into shape--remembers what the right quotations are,
Middlemarch |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: later life. The term electro-tonic is also preserved by Professor
Du Bois Reymond to express a certain electric condition of the nerves,
and Professor Clerk Maxwell has ably defined and illustrated the
hypothesis in the Tenth Volume of the 'Transactions of the Cambridge
Philosophical Society.'
The mere approach of a wire forming a closed curve to a second wire
through which a voltaic current flowed was then shown by Faraday to
be sufficient to arouse in the neutral wire an induced current,
opposed in direction to the inducing current; the withdrawal of the
wire also generated a current having the same direction as the
inducing current; those currents existed only during the time of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: order; I am careless; I forget rules; I read when I should learn my
lessons; I have no method; and sometimes I say, like you, I cannot
BEAR to be subjected to systematic arrangements. This is all very
provoking to Miss Scatcherd, who is naturally neat, punctual, and
particular."
"And cross and cruel," I added; but Helen Burns would not admit my
addition: she kept silence.
"Is Miss Temple as severe to you as Miss Scatcherd?"
At the utterance of Miss Temple's name, a soft smile flitted over
her grave face.
"Miss Temple is full of goodness; it pains her to be severe to any
Jane Eyre |
