| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: In filiall Obligation, for some terme
To do obsequious Sorrow. But to perseuer
In obstinate Condolement, is a course
Of impious stubbornnesse. 'Tis vnmanly greefe,
It shewes a will most incorrect to Heauen,
A Heart vnfortified, a Minde impatient,
An Vnderstanding simple, and vnschool'd:
For, what we know must be, and is as common
As any the most vulgar thing to sence,
Why should we in our peeuish Opposition
Take it to heart? Fye, 'tis a fault to Heauen,
Hamlet |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: but its execution is attended with a practical difficulty which
it is important to point out.
[Footnote z: If, for instance, a township persists in refusing to
name its assessors, the Court of Sessions nominates them; and the
magistrates thus appointed are invested with the same authority
as elected officers. See the Act quoted above, February 20,
1787.]
I have already observed that the administrative tribunal,
which is called the Court of Sessions, has no right of inspection
over the town officers. It can only interfere when the conduct
of a magistrate is specially brought under its notice; and this
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift: him, are they not now obsolete, to a degree, that Empson and Dudley
themselves, if they were now alive, would find it impossible to put
them in execution?
It is likewise urged, that there are, by computation, in this
kingdom, above ten thousand parsons, whose revenues, added to those
of my lords the bishops, would suffice to maintain at least two
hundred young gentlemen of wit and pleasure, and free-thinking,
enemies to priestcraft, narrow principles, pedantry, and
prejudices, who might be an ornament to the court and town: and
then again, so a great number of able [bodied] divines might be a
recruit to our fleet and armies. This indeed appears to be a
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