"Synoptic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... simplicity no book of memoirs since the synoptic gospels exceeds "A Personal Record." Such minor facts as where the writer was born, and when, and the customary demonology of boyhood and courtship and the first pay envelope, are gloriously ignored. A statistician, ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley
... 1814, vol. civ., p. i, contains a synoptic scale of chemical equivalents. This paper was confirmatory ...
— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams
... adopted in the present essay as to the date of the Synoptic Gospels may seem over-conservative to those who accept the ably-argued conclusions of "Supernatural Religion." Quite possibly in a more detailed discussion these briefly-indicated data may require revision; but for the present it seems ...
— The Unseen World and Other Essays • John Fiske |
