| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: pas rever. Les reveurs sont des malades. [Elle frappe le page avec
son eventail.]
LE SECOND NAZAREEN. Aussi il y a le miracle de la fille de Jaire.
LE PREMIER NAZAREEN. Mais oui, c'est tres certain cela. On ne peut
pas le nier.
HERODIAS. Ces gens-le sont fous. Ils ont trop regarde la lune.
Dites-leur de se taire.
HERODE. Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela, le miracle de la fille de
Jaire?
LE PREMIER NAZAREEN. La fille de Jaire etait morte. Il l'a
ressuscitee.
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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: [7] Or, "to childish matters," "frivolous affairs"; but for the full
import of the phrase {paidikois pragmasi} see "Ages." viii. 2.
Then Critobulus: I cannot gainsay what you have spoken, Socrates, it
is indeed high time that you were constituted my patronus, or I shall
become in very truth a pitiable object.
To which appeal Socrates made answer: Why, you yourself must surely be
astonished at the part you are now playing. Just now, when I said that
I was rich, you laughed at me as if I had no idea what riches were,
and you were not happy till you had cross-examined me and forced me to
confess that I do not possess the hundredth part of what you have; and
now you are imploring me to be your patron, and to stint no pains to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: in the whole march, though we were to go over some much larger.
In passing this frightful wilderness we saw, two or three times,
little parties of the Tartars, but they seemed to be upon their own
affairs, and to have no design upon us; and so, like the man who
met the devil, if they had nothing to say to us, we had nothing to
say to them: we let them go. Once, however, a party of them came
so near as to stand and gaze at us. Whether it was to consider if
they should attack us or not, we knew not; but when we had passed
at some distance by them, we made a rear-guard of forty men, and
stood ready for them, letting the caravan pass half a mile or
thereabouts before us. After a while they marched off, but they
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