In other words, they were independent writings and not versions of or excerpts from a text called Laozi, which in this scenario did not yet exist when the Guodian texts were made.
The following excerpt from a source text in a US secondary school textbook reports the recollections of musician Cesar Rosas' experiences as a recent immigrant to the US in the 1950s and contains several instances of author-oriented Affect including negative Security (afraid, panicked) and positive Happiness (loved).
In an excerpt from an advance text of his speech, Mr. Bush declares: "We are encouraged by the initial results of welfare reform, but we are not content.
It may be wise to select a riveting excerpt from the text rather than an entire piece if you tend toward longform.
The ingrained anti-Semitism of the Passion plays is also, expectedly, a prominent strand in this act, which includes excerpts from an actual text used at a performance attended by Hitler, and direct quotations from his response.
This past weekend the film "12 Years a Slave," based on the 1853 slave narrative of the same name, opened in theaters, and so we chose to pair an excerpt from the original text by Solomon Northup with a recent Times article that discusses Mr. Northup's narrative in the context of the antislavery literary genre.
Here are excerpts from his acceptance speech, from a text released by the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
An excerpt from the text for the Summer concerto reads: "... lightning and thunder..
The work begins with a nasal, almost medieval burst of intertwining lines and pleading chords from the oboes, to set the mood for the first excerpt from the text, which extols the virtues of unchanging rhythms and harmonies.
These lines are excerpts from a violently hostile text.
The text on the page reads like an excerpt from a Persian literary work mixing prose and poetry.
