| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: would have taken the lot of us; but the skipper said we
must save as much property as we could--for the under-
writers--and so I got my first command. I had two men
with me, a bag of biscuits, a few tins of meat, and a
breaker of water. I was ordered to keep close to the
long-boat, that in case of bad weather we might be taken
into her.
"And do you know what I thought? I thought I
would part company as soon as I could. I wanted to
have my first command all to myself. I wasn't going to
sail in a squadron if there were a chance for independ-
Youth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The United States Bill of Rights: speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district
wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have
been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature
and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him;
to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor,
and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed
twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved,
and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court
of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: stone. The sun setting red, and among seas of rolling clouds,
threw a gloomy lustre over the moor, and gave a deeper purple to
the broad outline of heathy mountains which surrounded this
desolate spot. The Dwarf sate watching the clouds as they
lowered above each other in masses of conglomerated vapours, and,
as a strong lurid beam of the sinking luminary darted full on his
solitary and uncouth figure, he might well have seemed the demon
of the storm which was gathering, or some gnome summoned forth
from the recesses of the earth by the subterranean signals of its
approach. As he sate thus, with his dark eye turned towards the
scowling and blackening heaven, a horseman rode rapidly up to
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