| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: endeavoured to suppress them and shut up their meetings.
But the visitation reconciled them again, at least for a time, and
many of the best and most valuable ministers and preachers of the
Dissenters were suffered to go into the churches where the
incumbents were fled away, as many were, not being able to stand it;
and the people flocked without distinction to hear them preach, not
much inquiring who or what opinion they were of. But after the
sickness was over, that spirit of charity abated; and every church
being again supplied with their own ministers, or others presented
where the minister was dead, things returned to their old channel again.
One mischief always introduces another. These terrors and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: caused a considerable change in the physiognomy of my own auditor.
He had heard my story with that half kind of belief that is given
to a tale of spirits and supernatural events; but when he was
called upon to act officially in consequence, the whole tide of his
incredulity returned. He, however, answered mildly, "I would
willingly afford you every aid in your pursuit, but the creature of
whom you speak appears to have powers which would put all my
exertions to defiance. Who can follow an animal which can traverse
the sea of ice and inhabit caves and dens where no man would
venture to intrude? Besides, some months have elapsed since the
commission of his crimes, and no one can conjecture to what place
Frankenstein |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: unquiet thoughtfulness in which she had been for some time
previously sitting--her rising colour, as she spoke,--
and her unsteady voice, plainly shewed.
"I wish to assure you both," said she, "that I see
every thing--as you can desire me to do."
Mrs. Dashwood would have interrupted her instantly
with soothing tenderness, had not Elinor, who really wished
to hear her sister's unbiased opinion, by an eager sign,
engaged her silence. Marianne slowly continued--
"It is a great relief to me--what Elinor told
me this morning--I have now heard exactly what I
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