| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: EXPEDITUS, I mind not pedestrian exercise the flourish of a
fife), that I think I had better ensconce myself in one of these
bushes, and even lie quiet there to abide what fortune God shall
send me. I entreat you, mine honest friend Ranald, to shift for
yourself, and leave me to my fortune, as the Lion of the North,
the immortal Gustavus Adolphus, my never-to-be-forgotten master
(whom you must surely have heard of, Ranald, though you may have
heard of no one else), said to Francis Albert, Duke of Saxe-
Lauenburgh, when he was mortally wounded on the plains of Lutzen.
Neither despair altogether of my safety, Ranald, seeing I have
been in as great pinches as this in Germany--more especially, I
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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: resist. Again, those diseases to which the fruits of the earth are
liable as visitations from heaven fall severely on a land power, but
are scarcely felt by the navel power, for such sicknesses do not visit
the whole earth everywhere at once. So that the ruler of the sea can
get in supplies from a thriving district. And if one may descend to
more trifling particulars, it is to this same lordship of the sea that
the Athenians owe the discovery, in the first place, of many of the
luxuries of life through intercourse with other countries. So that the
choice things of Sicily and Italy, of Cyprus and Egypt and Lydia, of
Pontus or Peloponnese, or wheresoever else it be, are all swept, as it
were, into one centre, and all owing, as I say, to their maritime
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: whom he either loved or feared, or both. As for the rest of them, men,
women and children, they thanked and blessed me with tears in their
eyes, vowing that, young as I was, thenceforth I and no other should be
their leader. As may be imagined, although it is true that she set down
my success to her meal of bullock's liver and the nap which she had
insisted on my taking, the Vrouw Prinsloo was the most enthusiastic of
them all.
"Look at him," she said, pointing with her fat finger at my
insignificant self and addressing her family. "If only I had such a
husband or a son, instead of you lumps that God has tied to me like
clogs to the heels of a she-ass, I should be happy."
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