| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: myself, that amongst this class persons are to be found most zealously
disposed to carry out the part assigned to them, in every other branch
of honourable service which the citizens may choose to share with
them. Again, it strikes me that if you seek for an energetic infantry
to support your cavalry, you will find it in a corps composed of
individuals whose hatred to the foe is naturally intense.[9] But the
success of the above suggestions will depend doubtless on the
consenting will of Heaven.[10]
[4] "Entered on an era of prestige with the incorporation of," after
Leuctra, 371 B.C., when the force was at its worst. See "Hell."
VI. iv. 10.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Deserted Woman by Honore de Balzac: They huddle themselves up in shawls and caps by way of full dress; and
twice a year, after ripe deliberation, have a new bonnet from Paris,
brought as opportunity offers. Exemplary wives are they for the most
part, and garrulous.
These are the principal elements of aristocratic gentility, with a few
outlying old maids of good family, spinsters who have solved the
problem: given a human being, to remain absolutely stationary. They
might be sealed up in the houses where you see them; their faces and
their dresses are literally part of the fixtures of the town, and the
province in which they dwell. They are its tradition, its memory, its
quintessence, the /genius loci/ incarnate. There is something frigid
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: with an occasional slap on the back, and pointed with a peg in the ribs;
a species of vivacious eloquence in which the; old gentleman excelled,
and which is supposed by many of that pleasant variety of the human spectes,
known by the name of choice fellows and comical dogs, to be the genuine
tangible shape of the cream of a good joke.
CHAPTER VI
What! shall we have incision? shall we embrew? Henry IV.
Old Sir Guy of Gamwell, and young William Gamwell, and fair
Alice Gamwell, and Sir Ralph Montfaucon and his squire,
rode together the next morning to the scene of the feast.
They arrived on a village green, surrounded with cottages peeping
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