| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: exile of a few years later, by weeping multitudes; (1) but I
daresay one or two rogues of his acquaintance would keep him
company for a mile or so on the south road, and drink a
bottle with him before they turned. For banished people, in
those days, seem to have set out on their own responsibility,
in their own guard, and at their own expense. It was no joke
to make one's way from Paris to Roussillon alone and
penniless in the fifteenth century. Villon says he left a
rag of his tails on every bush. Indeed, he must have had
many a weary tramp, many a slender meal, and many a to-do
with blustering captains of the Ordonnance. But with one of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: and any that resembles it; and as moist, the soil in the marsh meadows
of Phalerum,[8] or the like.
[7] See Leake, "Topog. of Athens," i. 209.
[8] Or, "the Phaleric marsh-land." See Leake, ib. 231, 427; ii. 9.
Isch. In planting, would you dig (what I may call) deep trenches in a
dry soil or a moist?
Soc. In a dry soil certainly; at any rate, if you set about to dig
deep trenches in the moist you will come to water, and there and then
an end to further planting.
Isch. You could not put it better. We will suppose, then, the trenches
have been dug. Does your eyesight take you further?[9] Have you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: Dr. Massarel opened the door, grew pale, straightened himself
abruptly and, raising his arms to heaven in a gesture of
exaltation, cried out with all his might, in the face of the
amazed rustics:
"Long live the Republic! Long live the Republic! Long live the
Republic!"
Then he dropped into his armchair weak with emotion.
When the peasant explained that this sickness commenced with a
feeling as if ants were running up and down in his legs, the
doctor exclaimed: "Hold your peace. I have spent too much time
with you stupid people. The Republic is proclaimed! The Emperor
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