* * Gen. Grant, in his memoirs, summarizes the results of the two days' fighting as follows: "I rode forward several miles the day of the battle and found that the enemy had dropped nearly all of their provisions and other luggage in order to enable them to get off with their guns.

If he could have summarized his thoughts afterwards, he would have scoffed at them, as a grown man might laugh at a toy which a lunatic had offered him.

It is not our purpose here to summarize Mr. Gibson's admirable work, or to give even an outline of so well-known a history; but rather to attempt some brief criticism of the man himself, and incidentally of his views.

Let us now try to summarize the conclusions of this section.

It may therefore be convenient to summarize that idea in a couple of sentences; more especially as Schopenhauer sometimes writes as if his advice had been followed and his readers were acquainted with the whole of his work.

Our space does not permit us either to summarize the facts as to this progress, nor can we present all the reasons for it.

Attempts to summarize the nation's wealth.

Such are, too briefly summarized, the experiments which have been made up to the present time.

In narrating you should, as a rule, stick to simple occurrences, though you may occasionally vary your work by summarizing the plot of a novel or giving the gist and drift of big historical events.

It will, therefore, be necessary to summarize the events of the remainder of the year 1858, and of some of the following years.

The poem can be briefly summarized: "A conqueror you come, the great glory of a mighty triumph, a victor on land and sea over barbarian tribes; and yet a poet too.

His sagacity and quickness of apprehension were remarkable, as was also the extraordinary rapidity with which he was able to eviscerate a work, and summarize its contents in a few pages.

In summarizing this discussion, we may conclude that an active fertile imagination comes from crowding into one's life a large number of varied and vivid experiences; storing them up in the mind in the form of images; and industriously recalling and combining them in novel relationships.

I summarized the experience in The Twilight of Empire(1929).

Lincoln, in an Ohio speech made in the following year, addressing himself to Kentuckians, thus summarized the political forces that contributed to his defeat: "Douglas had three or four very distinguished men of the most extreme anti-slavery views of any men in the Republican party expressing their desire for his reëlection to the Senate last year.

Very truly does M. Taine say, "These three syllables, as used across the channel, summarize the history of English society."

And in summarizing Katie as having a good build for golf he had not properly appraised Katie's foot.

We again summarize the language of Dean Smith:

For starters, let me try to summarize the lessons and intuitions I've had about ebooks from my release of two novels and most of a short story collection online under a Creative Commons license.

A quotation from Sir James MacKenzie, most distinguished of modern English students of medicine, summarizes the matter neatly.

Thus Dickens again and again has Mr. Micawber express a commonplace idea in sounding terms which at length fail him, so that he must interject an "in short" and summarize his meaning in a phrase amusing through its homely contrast.

The famous tale herewith briefly summarized occurs in the Mahâbhârata, the great epic or mythological cyclopaedia of India, which embraces 220,000 metric lines, and antedates in the main the Christian era.

Count Von Bülow summarized the action of the German Government by saying: "We demanded in the first place the release of the steamers....

The Summarizing Paragraph.+Frequently we give emphasis to our thought by a final paragraph summarizing the main points of the theme.

cit., 608) summarizing the portents listed in the Mahabharata but not included in the Vishnu or Bhagavata Puranas.