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"Free to confess that events have opened my eyes to the truth, so, not for the first time, out of evil comes good." "A prig." "Visit for such a purpose a piece of unheard-of impudence." These were all on one page. "Quite clearly a précis of Grant's remarks when Siddle called on Monday," said Winter. At any other time, Furneaux would have waxed sarcastic. Now he merely nodded.
[Footnote 44: References as in the preceding chapter. Also: Cathcart: Commentaries on the War in Russia and Germany, 1812 to 1813. Clausewitz: Der Feldzug von 1812 in Russland, der Feldzug von 1813 bis zum Waffenstillstand und der Feldzug von 1814 in Frankreich. Combe: Mémoires sur les campagnes de Russie 1812, de Saxe 1813, de France 1814 et 1815. Jomini: Précis politique et militaire des campagnes de 1812
These pangs are worth about half-a-crown an hour in the present state of the book market. One cannot contemplate them without profound emotion. The reading world is hunger-bitten about Asia, and I often think I shall take three months' leave and run up a précis of Sanskrit and Pali literature, just a few folios for the learned world.
The Kid put one over on to Jack Repetto's chin, and we were asking him a few questions when the rest came back, and started shooting. Then we got to cover quick, and you came up and they beat it." "That," said Smith, nodding, "is a very fair precis of the evening's events. We should like you, if you will be so good, to corral this Comrade Repetto, and see that he buys me a new hat."
After that I rose to my weary feet and offered my contribution. I have no intention of giving a précis of my speech here. It was exactly the same as all the speeches ever delivered on such occasions. Thucydides could have written it down word for word without ever having heard me deliver it.
The "Précis" embraces the foregoing results of his discovery, and considering the short space of time in which all this was accomplished, it appears marvellous that François could thus early determine the most important elements of the hieroglyphic system in their minute details so correctly.
So Julius rummages through his papers and sends on a somewhat elaborate 'Theosophy of Julius', a sort of precis, it would seem, of Schiller's earlier views. It is religious mysticism set forth with warm eloquence. The universe is a thought of God. The highest aim of thinking is to read the divine plan. All spirits are attracted by perfection.
Colonel Home, in his "Précis of Modern Tactics," says: "The action of cavalry on the actual battle field is by no means a thing of the past. The use of cavalry with skill at the right moment and in the right numbers has always been considered one of the most difficult problems in war.
It is because Sophie had plenty of brains of a sort, besides the attributes of good looks, health, and by much a disproportionate share of determination, and because, with all that she attained to, she died quite ostracized by the people with whom it had been her life's ambition to mix, and was thus in a sense a failure it is because of these things that it is worth while going into details of her career, expanding the precis with which this chapter begins.
Here is the précis of his book, which he himself gives, pages 7 and 8 of the first volume. The doctrine of a life to come, of rewards and punishments after death, is necessary to all civil society. It cannot be found in any passage of the law of Moses; therefore the law of Moses is of divine origin. Which I am going to prove by the two following syllogisms: First Syllogism
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