| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: blame,' said I; 'blame yourself!' I was giving her good counsel,
but she: 'Go away, go away!' huddling herself and Kuzka against
the wall, and trembling all over.
"When they were taking her away to the chief town of our
province, I walked by the escort as far as the station and
slipped a rouble into her bundle for my soul's salvation. But she
did not get as far as Siberia. . . . She fell sick of fever and
died in prison."
"Live like a dog and you must die a dog's death," said Dyudya.
"Kuzka was sent back home. . . . I thought it over and took him
to bring up. After all -- though a convict's child -- still he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: student, sed quicquid possunt, pedestribus valent copiis), quo facilius
finitimorum equitatum, si praedandi causa ad eos venissent, impedirent,
teneris arboribus incisis atque inflexis crebrisque in latitudinem ramis
enatis [et] rubis sentibusque interiectis effecerant ut instar muri hae
saepes munimentum praeberent, quo non modo non intrari sed ne perspici
quidem posset. His rebus cum iter agminis nostri impediretur, non
omittendum sibi consilium Nervii existimaverunt.
Loci natura erat haec, quem locum nostri castris delegerant. Collis
ab summo aequaliter declivis ad flumen Sabim, quod supra nominavimus,
vergebat. Ab eo flumine pari acclivitate collis nascebatur adversus huic
et contrarius, passus circiter CC infimus apertus, ab superiore parte
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: equally powerful may have deflected the Frenchman from the truth,
for they evidently write with contrary designs: the Portuguese, to
make their mission seem more necessary, endeavoured to place in the
strongest light the differences between the Abyssinian and Roman
Church; but the great Ludolfus, laying hold on the advantage,
reduced these later writers to prove their conformity.
Upon the whole, the controversy seems of no great importance to
those who believe the Holy Scriptures sufficient to teach the way of
salvation, but of whatever moment it may be thought, there are not
proofs sufficient to decide it.
His discourses on indifferent subjects will divert as well as
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