| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: the word.
[13] {to arkhein}, "his princely power makes him more noble as a man,
and we behold him fairer exercising rule than when he functioned
as a common citizen." Reading {kallio}, or if {edion}, transl. "we
feast our eyes more greedily upon him."
Why, the minion (with regard to whom you had the gravest fault to find
with tyranny), the favourite of a ruler, is least apt to quarrel[14]
with gray hairs: the very blemishes of one who is a prince soon cease
to be discounted in their intercourse.[15]
[14] Lit. "feels least disgust at age"; i.e. his patron's years and
wrinkles.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: me, and for a moment I lay with all the breath out of my body staring
upward. A toppling crag of the melting stuff had splashed over us, buried
us, and now it thinned and boiled off us. I saw the bubbles dancing on the
glass above. I heard Cavor exclaiming feebly.
Then some huge landslip in the thawing air had caught us, and spluttering
expostulation, we began to roll down a slope, rolling faster and faster,
leaping crevasses and rebounding from banks, faster and faster, westward
into the white-hot boiling tumult of the lunar day.
Clutching at one another we spun about, pitched this way and that, our
bale of packages leaping at us, pounding at us. We collided, we gripped,
we were torn asunder - our heads met, and the whole universe burst into
The First Men In The Moon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: shalt be saved, and thy house.
ACT 16:32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that
were in his house.
ACT 16:33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their
stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
ACT 16:34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat
before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
ACT 16:35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants,
saying, Let those men go.
ACT 16:36 And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The
magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in
King James Bible |
