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Examples of Précis Writing #1

It is physically impossible for a well-educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts just as it is for him to make his dinner the principal object of them. All healthy people like their dinners, but their dinner is not the main object of their lives. So all healthy minded people like making money ought to like it and enjoy the sensation of winning it; it is something better than money.
A good soldier, for instance, mainly wishes to do his fighting well. He is glad of his pay—very properly so and justly grumbles when you keep him ten years without it—till, his main mission of life is to win battles, not to be paid for winning them. So of clergymen. The clergyman's object is essentially baptize and preach not to be paid for preaching. So of doctors. They like fees no doubt—ought to like them; yet if they are brave and well-educated the entire object to their lives is not fees. They on the whole, desire to cure the sick; and if they are good doctors and the choice were fairly to them, would rather cure their patient and lose their fee than kill him and get it. And so with all the other brave and rightly trained men: their work is first, their fee second—very important always; but still second.

Sample Answer

Title: Work or Money
Precis: Undoubtedly, money is the need of an hour however it is not the primary purpose for a well- educated, intellectual, or brave man. Healthy minded people primarily, enjoy winning or completing their work rather than aiming for making money from it. Be it soldier, who wishes to win the battle first instead of getting paid. Be it clergyman, who preaches because he loves doing it instead of getting paid for his preaches. Be it a doctor, who desires to cure his patient first. Thus for all well educated person work comes first.

Examples of Précis Writing #2

When we survey our lives and efforts we soon observe that almost the whole of our actions and desires are bound up with the existence of other human beings. We notice that whole nature resembles that of the social animals. We eat food that others have produced, wear clothes that others have made, live in house knowledge and beliefs has been passed on to us by other people though the medium of a language which others have created. Without language and mental capacities, we would have been poor indeed comparable to higher animals.
We have, therefore, to admit that we owe our principal knowledge over the least to the fact of living in human society. The individual if left alone from birth would remain primitive and beast like in his thoughts and feelings to a degree that we can hardly imagine. The individual is what he is and has the significance that he has, not much in virtue of the individuality, but rather as a member of a great human community, which directs his material and spiritual existence from the cradle to grave.

Sample Answer

Title: Human being- A social animal
Precis: Being a social animal, w e are bound up with our actions and d e sire s with others. Our food, clothes, residents and beliefs are interconnected. Without the use of languages created by others, we would have been mere an animal. If we had not been a social animal, we would have been primitive and beast like in thoughts and feelings. Thus, society plays a significant role in a person’s life.

Examples of Précis Writing #3

Misers are generally characterized as men without honor or without humanity, who live only to accumulate, and to this passion scarifies who live only to accumulate, and to this passion sacrifices the most of the joy of abundance, banish every pleasure and make imaginary wants real necessities. But few, very few, correspond to this exaggerated picture; perhaps there is not one in whom all these circumstances are found united. Instead of this we find the sober and the industrious branded by the vain and the idle with the odious appellation: men who by frugality and the idle with the obvious appellation; men who by frugality and labour, raise themselves above their equals and contribute their share of industry to the common stock. Whatever the vain or the ignorant may say, well where it for society had we more of this character among us. In general with these avaricious men we seldom lose in our dealings; but too frequently in our commerce with prodigality.

Sample Answer

Title: Misers- the odious appellation
Precis: Misers are men who are ready to sacrifices all the pleasures even the real necessities ju st to accumulate. Because of frugality, they contribute their share in common steel and hence they lose their important deals because of their odious appellation.

Examples of Précis Writing #4

Among the manifold misfortunes that may befall humanity, the loss of health is one of the severest. All the joys which life can give cannot outweigh the sufferings of the sick. Give the sick man everything and leave him sufferings a d he will feel that half the world is lost to him.
Lay him on a soft silken couch; he will nevertheless be under the pressure of his suffering while the miserable beggar, blessed with health, sleeps sweetly on the hard ground. Spend his table with dainty meals and choice drinks, and he will thrust back the hand that proffers them and every the poor man that thoroughly enjoys his dry crush Surround him with the pomp of kings, let his chair be a throne and his crutch a world saving scepter, he will look with contemptuous eye on marble, on gold and on purple and would deem himself happy, could he enjoy, even was it under a thatched roof, health of the meanest of his servants.

Sample Answer

Title: Blessings of health
Precis: The loss of health is one of the biggest misfortune that a human can suffer from no worldly pleasure can soothe his sufferings. A poor man can enjoy his sleep if he is healthy. But a sick king has to suffer sleepless and dreadful night. So the blessing of health is much cardinal than all the riches.

Examples of Précis Writing #5

Certain people consciously or unconsciously cherish the desire that some part of their work and of their accomplishment will outlive their own individual life. The influence which they have exercised on the world in which they lived, the concern which they have built up, the books which they have written, the work they have laid as a part of some scientific edifice, whose completion they themselves will not live to see all such things inspire the people that some aspect of themselves will outlast their own personal existence, the artist bequeaths his pictures, the scholar his contribution of knowledge while poets and composers are primarily concerned that posterity shall take pleasure in their creations. Statesmen envisage that particular agreement in whose development they themselves had played a crucial part will preserve their names for future generations. People are not unconcerned for their posthumous reputation. Many an old person is distinctly preoccupied with this question and keeps a zealous watch to ensure that his achievement are properly quoted and recorded.

Sample Answer

Title: People die, work outlives
Precis: The work of some people outlive their own individual life. Whether a book written by author, scientific edifice picture made an artist, a poet’s poetry, any contribution of a person’s knowledge or an agreement signed by the statesmen for the development of country make even ensure that their achievement are properly quoted and recorded.