| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional
grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and
easy method of making these children sound and useful members of
the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to
have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.
But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only
for the children of professed beggars: it is of a much greater
extent, and shall take in the whole number of infants at a
certain age, who are born of parents in effect as little able to
support them, as those who demand our charity in the streets.
As to my own part, having turned my thoughts for many years, upon
A Modest Proposal |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling: By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
OONTS
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Verses 1889-1896 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: RICHARD.
Fie! charity, for shame! speak not in spite,
For you shall sup with Jesu Christ to-night.
YOUNG CLIFFORD.
Foul stigmatic, that's more than thou canst
tell.
RICHARD.
If not in heaven, you'll surely sup in hell.
[Exeunt severally.]
SCENE II. Saint Alban's.
[Alarums to the battle. Enter WARWICK.]
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