Which preposition to use with summaries
The just and elegant laconism of Byron, by substituting the past for the present tense, may now be adopted as a faithful and brief summary of what was George Canning.
That all the love my passions crave will soon a full fruition find; Fast my passion stronger grows, and if of love there measure be, Believe it, dearest, that the whole can find its summary in me!
He was obliged to change his course, and at last was as summary as Oliver Cromwell in Ireland.
The summary for this series indicates three right and seven wrong first choices, that is, three cases in which the right box was entered first.
* THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACTS EXPLAINED AND SIMPLIFIED, BY E.M. ROE, Her Majesty's Inspector of Factories, WITH FULL SUMMARIES OF THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT, 1897, AND THE TRUCK ACT, 1896, PREFIXED.
Much speculation has been indulged in as to the meaning of the symbolism of these tombs, and having no theory of my own to offer, I am glad to borrow Mr. Gerald S. Davies' summary from his monograph on Michelangelo.
The summary on pages 175-235 is now largely obsolete; but it has been retained as instructive evidence of the rapid progress made during the last four years.
With this object in view I do not think I can do better than to follow what Condivi says at the close of his biography, omitting those passages which have been already used in the body of this book, and supplementing his summary with illustrative anecdotes from Vasari.
In one case a free negro was delivered to a claimant under this process, more summary than any which the Fugitive-Slave Act provides.
Swift, if our memory serves us aright, compares abstracts, abridgments, and summaries to burning-glasses, and has something about a full book resembling the tail of a lobster.
The present version has been carefully formed, by a comparison of Astley, with the original in Ramusio, and with the summary by the Reverend James Stanier Clarke, in his curious work on the progress of maritime discoveries, which only gives a selection of what he considered to be its most material parts.
