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Fully Solved Precis Exercise It will be remarked that experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. There used to be a system of morals and meta—physics that was specially known as the Experience Philosophy, but those who advanced it were grim rationalists and utilitarian’s who were already old in years, or more commonly old before their time We all know that experience now...
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September 17, 2020 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Fully Solved Precis Exercise Who are really the happiest people It is odd that -ve have no answer really: for with most of us happiness is our beings and aim’ we are sometimes in doubt whether our own balance is on the right side or the wrong. Looking back, I think I can separate the years when I was happy and those when i was unhappy. But perhaps at the time...
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September 17, 2020 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Fully Solved Precis Exercise Something like 30, 00,000 acres of crops and pastures in Britain are annually sprayed against weeds and insect pests, and the area grows every year. Is this good or bad Is it mere labour-saving, is it a substitute for good husbandry, or is it a genuine advance in farming methods And what will be its effect on us all – in terms of health and welfare It...
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September 17, 2020 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Fully Solved Precis Exercise Write a precis of the following passage it about 300 words. State the exact number of words used at the end of the precis. Some Western writers, and some people in Russia toe, argue that the best way to minimize the explosive quality of the present arms race is somehow to develop a stable balance of terror or deterrence. This means developing nuclear weapons and delivery systems...
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September 17, 2020 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Fully Solved Precis Exercise The test of a great book is whether we war to read it only once or more than once. Any really great book we want to read the second time even more than we wanted to read it the first time; and every additional time that we read it we find new meanings and new beauties in it. A book that parson of education and good taste...
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September 17, 2020 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Fully Solved Precis Exercise There is no doubt that people are growing more and more interested in the seas, and that there is a great need for that interest. Men have long tried to probe the secrets of the oceans to gain knowledge for its own sake, but there are other practical reasons for doing so. The sea can provide us with many things that we need in everyday life. Future...
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September 17, 2020 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Fully Solved Precis Exercise As material civilisation advances and the supply of available goods and services increases, man’s needs correspondingly, multiply. Advertising plays a key role in this never—ending process by stimulating the public’s desire for certain products, and thereby promoting the sales thereof, until it has, in effect, created new needs, real or supposed, where there were none before. A familiar example is the motor car —once a rare and...
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Fully Solved Precis Exercise I vividly recall my first visit, as a boy of twelve, to a big town. I had hardly been outside the confines of the village where I was born and I had met and talked to no more than a few hundred people; but those few hundred I knew very well. Of course, we did sometimes meet a strange face but visitors from the outside world, whose...
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