| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: and an excellent orator, both intimates of Crassus, and of about
the same age. The horse thus pushing on, the infantry stayed
little behind, being exalted with hopes and joy, for they supposed
they had already conquered, and now were only pursuing; till when
they were gone too far, they perceived the deceit, for they that
seemed to fly, now turned again, and a great many fresh ones came
on. Upon this they made an halt, for they doubted not but now the
enemy would attack them, because they were so few. But they
merely placed their cuirassiers to face the Romans, and with the
rest of their horse rode about scouring the field, and thus
stirring up the sand, they raised such a dust that the Romans
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: service I had the fortune to render you, to grant
me a boon.''
``It is granted ere named, noble Knight,'' said
Cedric; ``yet, at this sad moment------''
``Of that also,'' said the King, ``I have bethought
me---but my time is brief---neither does it seem to
me unfit, that, when closing the grave on the noble
Athelstane, we should deposit therein certain prejudices
and hasty opinions.''
``Sir Knight of the Fetterlock,'' said Cedric,
colouring, and interrupting the King in his turn,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: ever seen. But what does it help her? She's got to stand washing clothes
for those stuck-up nincompoops of fine ladies! Wait till I've got money!
It'll be somebody else then, who--"
"Peter Halket," said the stranger, "who is the greatest; he who serves or
he who is served?" Peter looked at the stranger: then it flashed on him
that he was mad.
"Oh," he said, "if it comes to that, what's anything! You might as well
say, sitting there in your old linen shirt, that you were as great as
Rhodes or Beit or Barnato, or a king. Of course a man's just the same
whatever he's got on or whatever he has; but he isn't the same to other
people."
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