Epitome

Proceeding on, another Troy I see, Or, in less compass, Troy’s epitome.

And then it happened also—and verily, it happened for the first time!—that his word blessed selfishness, the wholesome, healthy selfishness, that springeth from the powerful soul:— —From the powerful soul, to which the high body appertaineth, the handsome, triumphing, refreshing body, around which everything becometh a mirror: —The pliant, persuasive body, the dancer, whose symbol and epitome is the self-enjoying soul.

That, now, is what old Bowditch in his Epitome calls the zodiac, and what my almanac below calls ditto.

“For that matter, my rough-tongued, simple patriot and epitome of the primitive virtues, what are your own connections with the democrats?” Ebling Mis shrugged it off, “You rave, do you know that?

This, and the similarity of style between the two books, indicate that they are the work of the same author; but who he was, is altogether unknown; the only point that the book proves is that the author lived long after the time of Joshua; for though it begins as if it followed immediately after his death, the second chapter is an epitome or abstract of the whole book, which, according to the Bible chronology, extends its history through a space of 306 years; that is, from the death of Joshua, BC 1426 to the death of Samson, BC 1120, and only 25 years before Saul went to seek his father’s asses, and was made king.

“Go on!” “Count,” said Morrel, “you are the epitome of all human knowledge, and you seem like a being descended from a wiser and more advanced world than ours.” “There is something true in what you say,” said the count, with that smile which made him so handsome; “I have descended from a planet called grief.” “I believe all you tell me without questioning its meaning; for instance, you told me to live, and I did live; you told me to hope, and I almost did so.

The day is an epitome of the year.

The debate which ensued was in its scope and progress an epitome of the course of life.

Inland of them stood Aleppo, a town of two hundred thousand people, an epitome of all Turkey’s races and religions.

She appeared the epitome of goodness, obviously bred and conditioned for this quality by her Ixian masters with their careful calculation of the effect this would have on the God Emperor.

Soldier, scholar, horseman, he, As ’twere all life’s epitome.

He’s not a coward, he’s the epitome of all the cowardice in the world walking on two legs.

↩︎ Cervantes gives here an admirable epitome, and without any extravagant caricature, of a typical romance of chivalry.

Neat, slender and erect, the woman touched him often as she sat by his bedside and was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.