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'There is work for you in Germany oh yes, much work; but if you delay the chance may pass. I will arrange your journey. It is my business to help the allies of my fatherland. He wrote down our names and an epitome of our doings contributed by Peter, who required two mugs of beer to help him through.
It would require more space than can be conveniently devoted on the present occasion, to give any clear view of the geographical knowledge possessed by the ancients, together with a history of the progress of that science, from the earliest times, neither do the nature and objects of the present Collection of Voyages and Travels call for any such deduction, of which an excellent epitome will be found in the History of Geography, prefixed to Playfair's System of Geography.
Such indeed was the epitome of many cases. The process from beginning to end was never better described; the ease with which confessions were dragged from weak-spirited women was never pictured more truly. With quite as keen insight he displayed the motives that animated witnesses and described the prejudices and fears that worked on jurors and judges.
There is no exaggeration here, but a literal transcript from life, which reveals, as it were, in one flash, a whole epitome of town life in working France. Consider again his drawings of Parisian types. Not less clever are the pen-and-ink sketches of familiar types which surround the larger figures on this last-named page like them, the result of humorous observation of many individuals.
Each is a "central" utterance of a race, a period and an individual. Each is an open-air poem, written by a young Englishman; each is lyrical, elegiac a song of mourning and of consolation. "Lycidas" is the last flawless music of the English Renaissance, an epitome of classical and pastoral convention, yet at once Christian, political and personal.
It was the cavalier of the ostrich-feathers; and then, through the white trunks of the birches, he caught the flutter of a woman's gown. Constans tried to shout, to call out, but the vocal chords refused to relax, the sounds rattled in his throat. But for our present purpose a brief epitome should suffice. To borrow then, with all due acknowledgments, from our admirable historian: *
Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights: Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. Shakspere, Julius Cæsar, Act i. See the Life of Sulla, c. 26; and the Life of Lucullus, c. 28. See the Epitome. The word here probably means a pediment.
Some of the older girls, who had been with Miss Chapman for two and three years, and were accustomed to this practice, could write down a really good epitome of the sermon, and once in a while a scholar did so well that Miss Chapman would send her work over to the minister, and the next time he came to tea he would compliment her for it; and that not only pleased the scholar, but made all the others determine to do so well that their extracts, too, should be sent over to him sometimes.
Or in English: "I am a dog that gnaws his bone, I couch and gnaw it all alone A time will come, which is not yet, When I'll bite him by whom I'm bit." The magazines of the Bourgeois Philibert presented not only an epitome but a substantial portion of the commerce of New France.
ELIZABETH. Turning to the patriot queen who had to steer England through so many storms and tortuous channels, we could find no better short guide to her political career than Beesley's volume about her in 'Twelve English Statesmen. But the best all-round biography is Queen Elizabeth by Mandell Creighton, who also wrote an excellent epitome, called The Age of Elizabeth, for the 'Epochs of Modern History. Shakespeare's England, published in 1916 by the Oxford University Press, is quite encyclopaedic in its range.
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