PARAGRAPH FOR PRECIS Of all the cities of a remote celebrity whose names have been perpetuated by history, for literature, for arts and arms, for virtue and for depravity, there is none which abounds in so many beautiful and sublime architectural...
PARAGRAPH FOR PRECIS University training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end. It aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to...
PARAGRAPH FOR PRECIS In this world of human affairs, there is no worse nuisance than a boy at the age of fourteen. He is neither ornamental nor useful. It is impossible to shower affection on him as on a little boy,...
PARAGRAPH FOR PRECIS The Pindaris generally invade a country in bodies of one thousand to four thousand each. They advance to the frontier with such rapidity, that the account of their depredations, in general, is the first intelligence of their approach....
PARAGRAPH FOR PRECIS Everyone endeavours to make himself as agreeable to society as he can, but it often happens that those who aim at shining in conversation overshoot their mark. Though a man succeeds, he should not, as is frequently the...
PARAGRAPH FOR PRECIS The death of the Prince Consort was the central turning point in the history of Queen Victoria. She herself felt that her true life had ceased with her husband’s and that the remainder of her days upon earth...
PARAGRAPH FOR PRECIS Nothing else will so serve you to accomplish great things as the belief in your own greatness, in your own marvellous possibilities; count that man an enemy who shakes your faith in your ability to do the thing...
PARAGRAPH FOR PRECIS At present, Easter meanders over thirty-five days of the calendar, from March 22 to April 25, to everybody’s inconvenience. There is not a single business interest in the country or a single family that would not welcome a...
Paragraph for Precis His dress was so what like that of his companion, but being scarlet showed that he was not a monk, but a soldier who fought for Church and his religion. On the right shoulder of his cloak was...
Introduction of Precis Writing ‘Precis’ is a French word. It means “summary.’ It also means an ‘epitome’ or ‘abstract.’ A precis should give the sum and substance of the original passage. It helps students in retaining the minimum from various sources—books,...
