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Gussie popped along, flapping the telegram and looking like a close-up of Joan Crawford, and I turned to Jeeves and gave him a précis of my operations. "Simple, you observe, Jeeves. Nothing elaborate." "No, sir." "Nothing far-fetched. Nothing strained or bizarre. Just Nature's remedy." "Yes, sir." "This is the attack as it should have been delivered.
"And how did Lady Brandon describe this wonderful young man?" asked his companion. "I know she goes in for giving a rapid précis of all her guests.
It was obtained mainly on the Staff of Marshal Ney and subsequently on the Russian headquarter Staff. He reached no definite theory of war, but his fundamental conclusions were the same. The first chapter of his final work, Précis de l'art de la Guerre, is devoted to "La Politique de la Guerre."
Adams, History of the United States, vol. viii. chap. viii. Sir J. Carmichael Smyth, Précis of Wars in Canada, p. 116. To Monroe, May 4, 1806. Jefferson's Writings, Collected and Edited by P.L. Ford, vol. viii. p. 450. Ibid., vol. vi. p. 75. Kingsford's History of Canada, vol. viii. p. 183.
He called it masterly; he said that in its presentations it was irrefutable; as a precis of evidence purely circumstantial it was useful and interesting. But, speech-making aside, and ability and rhetoric aside, and even personal conviction aside, the case should stand or fall by its total, not its comparative, soundness.
He called it masterly; he said that in its presentations it was irrefutable; as a precis of evidence purely circumstantial it was useful and interesting. But, speech-making aside, and ability and rhetoric aside, and even personal conviction aside, the case should stand or fall by its total, not its comparative, soundness.
We come now to the documents directly relating to the Memoirs, and among these are several attempts at a preface, in which we see the actual preface coming gradually into form. One is entitled 'Casanova au Lecteur', another 'Histoire de mon Existence', and a third Preface. There is also a brief and characteristic 'Precis de ma vie', dated November 17, 1797.
I see there is a writing-table by the window, and I would propose that you, Brodribb, just jot down a précis of the statement that you heard last night, while Jervis notes down the exact condition of the body. While you are doing this, I will take a look round." "We might find a more cheerful place to write in," grumbled Mr. Brodribb; "however "
They are so enamoured of old habits that they hesitate about desiring their Indian Governments and the subordinate correspondents of these Governments to place upon the back of their voluminous letters a précis of their substance! After the Chairs were gone I saw Bankes and Leach, and while they were with me Sir Archibald Campbell called. I saw him immediately.
He told me that he took that for granted. Then telling me that he wished me to draw up a precis of my intended course, he took out a note for five hundred francs, which he handed to me for my time. I refused to take it, though it cost me a struggle to do so, for I thought that I should make more out of him later on.
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