| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte Sisters: 'Of course, I was very penitent,' he replied. 'I went to see him
once or twice - nay, twice or thrice - or by'r lady, some four
times - and when he got better, I tenderly brought him back to the
fold.'
'What do you mean?'
'I mean, I restored him to the bosom of the club, and
compassionating the feebleness of his health and extreme lowness of
his spirits, I recommended him to "take a little wine for his
stomach's sake," and, when he was sufficiently re-established, to
embrace the media-via, ni-jamais-ni-toujours plan - not to kill
himself like a fool, and not to abstain like a ninny - in a word,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: ensure accurate firing.
At altitudes ranging between 4,000 and 6,000 feet the aeroplane
comes within the range of rifle and machine-gun firing. The
former, however, unless discharged in volleys with the shots
covering a wide area, is not particularly dangerous, inasmuch as
the odds are overwhelmingly against the rifleman. He is not
accustomed to following and firing upon a rapidly moving
objective, the result being that ninety-nine times out of a
hundred he fails to register a hit. On the other hand the
advantage accruing from machine-gun fire is, that owing to the
continuous stream of bullets projected, there is a greater
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: are obvious and many, as well as of the highest importance.
For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen
the number of Papists, with whom we are yearly over-run, being
the principal breeders of the nation, as well as our most
dangerous enemies, and who stay at home on purpose with a design
to deliver the kingdom to the Pretender, hoping to take their
advantage by the absence of so many good Protestants, who have
chosen rather to leave their country, than stay at home and pay
tithes against their conscience to an episcopal curate.
Secondly, The poorer tenants will have something valuable of
their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and
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