| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: Heating libraries, 27.
Hebrew books burnt, 8.
Hereford Cathedral library, 76.
Hickman family, 56.
Histories of Troy, i i i.
Holme (Mr.), 77.
Hooke (R.), his Micrographia, 71-75.
Horace's Satires, i4o.
Hot water pipes for libraries, 26.
House-fly, an enemy of books, 102.
Hudde, Heer, a story of, 17.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: tois ekpaglotatois}, most magnificent, awe-inspiring, a poetical
word which appears only in this passage in prose (Holden). L. & S.
cf. Hom. "Il."i. 146, xxi. 589, of persons; "Od." xiv. 552, of
things. Pind. "Pyth." iv. 140; "Isth." 7 (6), 30.
And now for ways and means: On which principle do you expect your
revenues to flow more copiously--by keeping your own private
capital[4] employed, or by means devised to make the resources of the
entire state[5] productive?
[4] Reading {idia}, al. {idia}, = "your capital privately employed."
[5] Lit. "of all citizens alike," "every single member of the state."
And next to speak of that which people hold to be the flower of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: I request all women to imagine for themselves the reflections of which
this was the first.
Madame de Listomere ended hers by a formal decision to forbid her
porter to admit Monsieur de Rastignac, and to show him, herself,
something more than disdain when she met him in society; for his
insolence far surpassed that of other men which the marquise had ended
by overlooking. At first she thought of keeping the letter; but on
second thoughts she burned it.
"Madame had just received such a fine love-letter; and she read it,"
said Caroline to the housemaid.
"I should never have thought that of madame," replied the other, quite
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