| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: almost suppose that they had but one day to acquire wealth and to
enjoy it.
Appendix F
It is unnecessary for me to say, that in the chapter which
has just been read, I have not had the intention of giving a
history of America. My only object was to enable the reader to
appreciate the influence which the opinions and manners of the
first emigrants had exercised upon the fate of the different
colonies, and of the Union in general. I have therefore confined
myself to the quotation of a few detached fragments. I do not
know whether I am deceived, but it appears to me that, by
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: But with snow-ridges and deep frost afar
Heaped seven ells high the earth lies featureless:
Still winter? still the north wind's icy breath!
Nay, never sun disparts the shadows pale,
Or as he rides the steep of heaven, or dips
In ocean's fiery bath his plunging car.
Quick ice-crusts curdle on the running stream,
And iron-hooped wheels the water's back now bears,
To broad wains opened, as erewhile to ships;
Brass vessels oft asunder burst, and clothes
Stiffen upon the wearers; juicy wines
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: connected with royalty, who had, besides, a decided aversion to
the Presbyterian form of religion, and who, finally, were in that
half savage state of society, in which war is always more welcome
than peace.
Great commotions were generally expected to arise from these
concurrent causes; and the trade of incursion and depredation,
which the Scotch Highlanders at all times exercised upon the
Lowlands, began to assume a more steady, avowed, and systematic
form, as part of a general military system.
Those at the head of affairs were not insensible to the peril of
the moment, and anxiously made preparations to meet and to repel
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