"Precis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... estimate of the public opinion of the whole nation. The "Associated Press," therefore, makes it a rule with all questions of national importance, not only to reproduce extracts from the New York Press, but also to publish precis of the opinions of at least fifty leading journals from all parts of ...
— My Three Years in America • Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
... Mr. George Smith, was fortunate enough to discover a Babylonian description of this temple, of which he published a /precis/. According to this document, there were two courts of considerable extent, the smaller within the larger—neither of them was square, but oblong. Six gates admitted to the temple-area surrounding the platform upon which the tower was built. The platform is stated to have been square ...
— The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria • Theophilus G. Pinches
... Charles Secretan [Footnote: Charles Secretan, a Lausanne professor, the friend of Vinet, born 1819. He published "Lecons sur la Philosophie de Leibnitz," "Philosophie de la Liberte," "La Raison et le Christianisme," etc.] "Recherches sur la Methode," 1857; "Precis elementaire de Philosophie," 1868. The philosophy of Secretan is the philosophy of Christianity, considered as the one true religion. Subordination of nature to intelligence, of intelligence to will, and of will to dogmatic faith —such is its general framework. ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... celles qu'ils avoient rassemblees, que de faciliter, par des indications utiles, les travaux des hommes studieux dont on n'attendoit aucune recompense." Memoires de l'Institut, vol. i. 664. See also the similar remarks of Jarde, in the "Precis sur les Bibliotheques," prefixed to Fournier's Dict. portatif de Bibliographie, ...
— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... paper with a shrug. The article did not commend itself to him, save as the means of making a precis of the case. The theory of the bell appeared excessively weak, and he could not understand a man being so foolish as to ...
— The Secret Passage • Fergus Hume |
