| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: these fifteen amendments, is printed at the end of this edition.
- Translator's Note, 1874.]]
It is easy to perceive in what manner these differences must
act upon the position and the rights of the judicial bodies in
the three countries I have cited. If in France the tribunals
were authorized to disobey the laws on the ground of their being
opposed to the constitution, the supreme power would in fact be
placed in their hands, since they alone would have the right of
interpreting a constitution, the clauses of which can be modified
by no authority. They would therefore take the place of the
nation, and exercise as absolute a sway over society as the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: suppose it was a wager.'
A wager was a common enough explanation for our own exploits, but
it seemed an original reason for taking notes.
THE OISE IN FLOOD
BEFORE nine next morning the two canoes were installed on a light
country cart at Etreux: and we were soon following them along the
side of a pleasant valley full of hop-gardens and poplars.
Agreeable villages lay here and there on the slope of the hill;
notably, Tupigny, with the hop-poles hanging their garlands in the
very street, and the houses clustered with grapes. There was a
faint enthusiasm on our passage; weavers put their heads to the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: beneath whose repulsive exterior had beaten the heart of
a chivalrous gentleman. That was all he could do in the cruel
jungle for the man who had given his life in the service of
his little son and his wife.
Then Tarzan took up again the pursuit of Rokoff. Now that
he was positive that the woman ahead of him was indeed
Jane, and that she had again fallen into the hands of the
Russian, it seemed that with all the incredible speed of his
fleet and agile muscles he moved at but a snail's pace.
It was with difficulty that he kept the trail, for there were
many paths through the jungle at this point--crossing and
The Beasts of Tarzan |
