| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: legatis aliquem ad se mitteret. Conloquendi Caesari causa visa non est,
et eo magis quod pridie eius diei Germani retineri non potuerant quin tela
in nostros coicerent. Legatum ex suis sese magno cum periculo ad eum
missurum et hominibus feris obiecturum existimabat. Commodissimum visum
est C. Valerium Procillum, C. Valerii Caburi filium, summa virtute et
humanitate adulescentem, cuius pater a C. Valerio Flacco civitate donatus
erat, et propter fidem et propter linguae Gallicae scientiam, qua multa
iam Ariovistus longinqua consuetudine utebatur, et quod in eo peccandi
Germanis causa non esset, ad eum mittere, et una M. Metium, qui hospitio
Ariovisti utebatur. His mandavit quae diceret Ariovistus cognogcerent et
ad se referrent. Quos cum apud se in castris Ariovistus conspexisset,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: of an article by M. Boutigny in The Comptes
Rendus, in which he notes that ``the portion
of the hands which are not immersed in the
fused metal, but are exposed to the action of
the heat radiated from its surface, experience
a painful sensation of heat.'' He adds that
when the hand was dampened with ether
``there was no sensation of heat, but, on the
contrary, an agreeable feeling of coolness.''
Beckmann, in his History of Inventions,
Vol. II., page 122, says:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: were heard from the part of the town which overlooks the valley of
Couesnon. Evidently, Fougeres was attacked on all sides and completely
surrounded. Flames rising on the western side of the rock showed that
the Chouans were setting fire to the suburbs; but these soon ceased,
and a column of black smoke which succeeded them showed that the fire
was extinguished. Brown and white clouds again hid the scene from
Mademoiselle de Verneuil, but they were clouds of smoke from the fire
and powder, which the wind dispersed. The Republican commander, as
soon as he saw his first orders admirably executed, changed the
direction of his battery so as to sweep, successively, the valley of
the Nancon, the Queen's Staircase, and the base of the rock of
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