| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: his great wisdom, felt were not right, or for which the time had
not yet come. Above all, he was implored to take some decided and
far-reaching action upon slavery.
IX. FREEDOM FOR THE SLAVES
By no means the least of the evils of slavery was a dread which
had haunted every southern household from the beginning of the
government that the slaves might one day rise in revolt and take
sudden vengeance upon their masters. This vague terror was
greatly increased by the outbreak of the Civil War. It stands to
the lasting credit of the negro race that the wrongs of their
long bondage provoked them to no such crime, and that the war
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: men to destroy them and to compel them to make sacrifice to his
idols, and rode with great host, in all that ever he might, for to
confound the Christian men. And then in that country dwelled many
good Christian men, the which that left their goods and would have
fled into Greece. And when they were in a plain that hight Megon,
anon this cursed emperor met with them with his host for to have
slain them and hewn them to pieces. And anon the Christian men
kneeled to the ground, and made their prayers to God to succour
them. And anon a great thick cloud came and covered the emperor
and all his host. And so they endure in that manner that they ne
may not go out on no side; and so shall they evermore abide in that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: follow and tease me, before you went away. Afterwards
he got worse, and became quite my shadow. Many
girls might have been taken in, for never were such
attentions; but I knew the fickle sex too well. He
went away to his regiment two days ago, and I trust
I shall never be plagued with him again. He is the
greatest coxcomb I ever saw, and amazingly
disagreeable. The last two days he was always by
the side of Charlotte Davis: I pitied his taste,
but took no notice of him. The last time we met
was in Bath Street, and I turned directly into a
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