The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: [19] e.g. defiles, bridges, outposts, stores, etc.
[20] e.g. a line of outposts, troops in billets or bivouac, etc.
[21] "It is a maxim, the quarry should be weaker than the pursuer."
[22] Zeune cf. Ael. "N. A." viii. 14, on the skill of wolves in
hunting.
[23] For {aposphaxas} Courier suggests {apospasas}, "dragging off what
he can."
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Here is another matter which every horseman ought to know, and that is
within what distance a horse can overhaul a man on foot; or the
interval necessary to enable a slower horse to escape one more fleet.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: notifying Mr. Thomas Grogan that sealed proposals would be
received up to March 1st for "unloading, hauling, and delivering
to the bins of the Eagle Brewery" so many tons of coal and malt,
together with such supplies, etc. There were also blank forms in
duplicate to be duly filled up with the price and signature of the
bidder. This contract was given out once a year. Twice before it
had been awarded to Thomas Grogan. The year before a man from
Stapleton had bid lowest, and had done the work. McGaw and his
friends complained that it took the bread out of Rockville's
mouth; but as the bidder belonged to the Union, no protest could
be made.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: Employing a method proposed by Dove, we examined the optical
properties of our crystals ourselves; and these optical observations
went hand in hand with our magnetic experiments. The number of
these experiments was very great, but for a considerable time no
fact of importance was added to those already published. At length,
however, it was our fortune to meet with various crystals whose
deportment could not be brought under the laws of magne-crystallic
action enunciated by Plucker. We also discovered instances which
led us to suppose that the magne-crystallic force was by no means
independent, as alleged, of the magnetism or diamagnetism of the
mass of the crystal. Indeed, the more we worked at the subject, the
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