precis

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The short account in Précis des Faits, 272, seems, too, to be drawn from Hocquart.

From Montcalm and Wolfe by Parkman, Francis

The following is the Précis to which I refer:— Mr. Lafontaine said: Your attempts to carry on the government on principles of conciliation must fail.

From The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada by Hodgins, J. George (John George)

Cherbuliez, Précis de la Science économique, 1862, p.

From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)

On the commercial treaty with France of 1786, see Count de Butenval, Précis du Traité de Commerce, 1786, Paris, 1869, and Auckland Corr. as above.

From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Poole, Reginald Lane

We admire veracity, but let no soldier confess that he has not read the "Vie Politique et Militaire," and the "Précis de l'Art de la Guerre."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 by Various