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... natural aptitude or defective education , incapable of making a short and accurate abstract of even a simple correspondence , though they may be fairly educated ' in the ordinary sense of the word . It was and is , the Author fears ...
... natural aptitude or defective education , incapable of making a short and accurate abstract of even a simple correspondence , though they may be fairly educated ' in the ordinary sense of the word . It was and is , the Author fears ...
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... natural aptitude for précis - writing may be better able to meet its difficulties when called upon to do so . Hence the origin of Part I. , which is designed , as the phrase has it , for the use of schools . ' 6 It also occurred to the ...
... natural aptitude for précis - writing may be better able to meet its difficulties when called upon to do so . Hence the origin of Part I. , which is designed , as the phrase has it , for the use of schools . ' 6 It also occurred to the ...
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... natural aptitude for seizing the sense of what they read and expressing it in a short simple way , and is so difficult of acquirement by others , that at first sight it would seem that to those who have such a natural aptitude ...
... natural aptitude for seizing the sense of what they read and expressing it in a short simple way , and is so difficult of acquirement by others , that at first sight it would seem that to those who have such a natural aptitude ...
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... natural gift , but it is not . Some persons can be taught to think and talk more easily than others , but all persons can be taught to think and talk , and those who can do these things can also read and write précis , if they have been ...
... natural gift , but it is not . Some persons can be taught to think and talk more easily than others , but all persons can be taught to think and talk , and those who can do these things can also read and write précis , if they have been ...
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... natural process of forgetfulness , and is the secret of acquiring real knowledge ; nor do we know of any surer aid to this habit than putting down in a few words the gist of what we read or the impression which it makes upon our minds ...
... natural process of forgetfulness , and is the secret of acquiring real knowledge ; nor do we know of any surer aid to this habit than putting down in a few words the gist of what we read or the impression which it makes upon our minds ...
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The précis book: or Lessons in accuracy of statement [&c.]. [With] Key William Cosmo Monkhouse Visualização integral - 1877 |
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Página 186 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Página 189 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Página 185 - The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose, The Moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare, Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Página 187 - mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes ! See at his feet some little plan or chart, Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shaped by himself with newly-learned art — A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral ; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song. Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife : But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside, And with new...
Página 186 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy ! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy ; The Youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Página 182 - For all the accommodations that thou bear'st Are nurs'd by baseness : tbou art by no means valiant ; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm : thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st, yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.
Página 182 - Thou hast nor youth, nor age ; But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both: for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld ; and when thou art old, and rich, Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty, To make thy riches pleasant. What 's yet in this, That bears the name of life ? Yet in this life Lie hid more thousand deaths: yet death we fear, That makes these odds all even.
Página 10 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Página 188 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized...
Página 189 - We in thought will join your throng, Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your hearts to-day Feel the gladness of the May...