| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: constrained and mysterious; nor was it easy to guess whether
displeasure or kindness predominated in his conduct towards his
new dependant, or in the looks with which, from time to time, he
regarded him. The ready service which the King had rendered to
counteract the bad effects of the Nubian's wound might seem to
balance the obligation conferred on him by the slave when he
intercepted the blow of the assassin; but it seemed, as a much
longer account remained to be arranged between them, that the
Monarch was doubtful whether the settlement might leave him, upon
the whole, debtor or creditor, and that, therefore, he assumed in
the meantime a neutral demeanour, which might suit with either
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: arcessendi; acies instruenda; milites cohortandi; signum dandum. Quarum
rerum magnam partem temporis brevitas et incursus hostium impediebat. His
difficultatibus duae res erant subsidio, scientia atque usus militum, quod
superioribus proeliis exercitati quid fieri oporteret non minus commode
ipsi sibi praescribere quam ab aliis doceri poterant, et quod ab opere
singulisque legionibus singulos legatos Caesar discedere nisi munitis
castris vetuerat. Hi propter propinquitatem et celeritatem hostium nihil
iam Caesaris imperium expectabant, sed per se quae videbantur
administrabant.
Caesar, necessariis rebus imperatis, ad cohortandos milites, quam [in]
partem fors obtulit, decucurrit et ad legionem decimam devenit. Milites
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: If thou be hurt with horn of hart, it brings thee to they bier;
But tusk of boar shall leeches heal, thereof have lesser fear."
"An I might advise," continued Bucklaw, who was now in his
element, and desirous of assuming the whole management, "as the
hounds are surbated and weary, the head of the stag should be
cabaged in order to reward them; and if I may presume to speak,
the huntsman, who is to break up the stag, ought to drink to your
good ladyship's health a good lusty bicker of ale, or a tass of
brandy; for if he breaks him up without drinking, the venison
will not keep well."
This very agreeable prescription received, as will be readily
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