"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 |
