| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: step of the staircase she found a man holding a letter in
his hand.
"Are you not Mademoiselle Julie Morrel?" inquired the man,
with a strong Italian accent.
"Yes, sir," replied Julie with hesitation; "what is your
pleasure? I do not know you."
"Read this letter," he said, handing it to her. Julie
hesitated. "It concerns the best interests of your father,"
said the messenger.
The young girl hastily took the letter from him. She opened
it quickly and read: --
The Count of Monte Cristo |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase
of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it,
and resolved against ever admitting consolation
in future. Elinor, too, was deeply afflicted; but still
she could struggle, she could exert herself. She could
consult with her brother, could receive her sister-in-law
on her arrival, and treat her with proper attention;
and could strive to rouse her mother to similar exertion,
and encourage her to similar forbearance.
Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored,
well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed
Sense and Sensibility |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: with regard to this passage: "The words {oude touto eosin, all
apothousin e}, etc., contain some corruption. The sense ought
clearly to be roughly parallel with that of the phrase used a
little before, {ouden allo pragmateuontai e}, etc. Perhaps
{apothousin} is a corruption of {apothen ousin}, and this
corruption occasioned the insertion of {e}. Probably Xenophon
wrote {oude touto eosin, all apothen ousin antipalous}, etc.:
'while the enemy is still some way off, they turn their companies
so as to face him.' The words {apothen ousin} indirectly suggest
the celerity of the Spartan movement."
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