Meaning of short view | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A short description that touches on the most important aspects of a subject.
2. A consideration of immediate and short-term needs and consequences.

Examples

“From this short View, it may appear, that the Articulation of the Bones of the Carpus is threefold;”

“This short View of Modern Astronomy was drawn up in September last, being intended as a textbook for the use of Pupils in a Class of Astronomy , which the writer meant to teach during winter.”

“To convey this Christian knowledge in as clear and succinct a manner, as the extent of it will allow, is the design of this short view.”

“It was not possible to insert all the particular narratives contained in the Scripture, without making another book almost as big as the Bible itself; whereas my prime design was to give an abstract or short view of the sacred history, for the use of persons of such age, capacities, or conditions of life, as are not able to attend to much reading, nor gain a fuller and more accurate knowledge of the transactions of God with men.”

“take a short view, take the short view”

“The short view is, Do now the work that is required now.”

“Do you think that a long view is necessary or a short view or a combination of both ? —I think the long view is necessary, but if you did not feel justified in going in for the long view I regard 8 to 10 years as the short view.”

“It is true that in adopting the short view many of the younger economists have not merely taken over the lay notions bodily. Some of them have, in fact, given them a theoretical elaboration which for subtlety, refinement, and elegance need make no apologies to the older economics, and which remains faithful to older theorizing in at least one respect, that the tradition of unintelligibility to the layman is scrupulously observed.”

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