| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: the beginning of the year 1669. The Rev. J. S. Clarke,
historiographer to George III., chaplain to the royal household,
and librarian to the Prince Regent, in his "Life of James II.,
collected out of Memoirs writ of his own hand," tells us that
about this time the Duke of York "was sensibly touched in his
conscience, and began to think seriously of his salvation."
Accordingly, the historian states, "he sent for one Father
Simons, a Jesuit, who had the reputation of a very learned man,
to discourse with him upon that subject; and when he came, he
told him the good intentions he had of being a catholic, and
treated with him concerning his being reconciled to the church.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sarrasine by Honore de Balzac: all the great painters. On another, she was coyly turning her head as
she finished a roulade, and seemed to be listening to herself.
Sarrasine drew his mistress in all poses: he drew her unveiled,
seated, standing, reclining, chaste, and amorous--interpreting, thanks
to the delirious activity of his pencil, all the fanciful ideas which
beset our imagination when our thoughts are completely engrossed by a
mistress. But his frantic thoughts outran his pencil. He met La
Zambinella, spoke to her, entreated her, exhausted a thousand years of
life and happiness with her, placing her in all imaginable situations,
trying the future with her, so to speak. The next day he sent his
servant to hire a box near the stage for the whole season. Then, like
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: NUM 1:44 These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron
numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for
the house of his fathers.
NUM 1:45 So were all those that were numbered of the children of
Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward,
all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
NUM 1:46 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and
three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
NUM 1:47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not
numbered among them.
NUM 1:48 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,
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