英语词汇“compendious”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Sony’s new set is one of the most compendious efforts at archival excavation that the major labels have yet offered. 120 CDs Later, a Conductor’s Legacy Is Still Uncertain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

It may be odd not to find it in this compendious store of resonances . Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

Her new book, How to be a Victorian – sturdy, Beetonian, compendious – has bigger ambitions. How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman – review 2013-07-12T11:00:01Z

They were unveiled to the world with compendious lists of sponsors' names and logos attached. Serpentine's star pavilions 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z

He also regularly dived into Bartlett’s, the compendious anthology first published in 1855, whose 16th and 17th editions he would one day edit. Justin Kaplan, Literary Biographer, Dies at 88 2014-03-04T05:34:11Z

One gap in her compendious CV I note is any Beckett. Judi Dench: 'I never want to stop working' 2012-10-13T23:05:47Z

For those not yet properly acquainted with this man's compendious oeuvre, a riveting encyclopedia of human frailty awaits your exploration. Bill Callahan: 'I've finally accepted that I'm an entertainer' 2011-03-31T11:47:40Z

It is in all ways compendious: plenty of room, lots of light, and hospitality to many sorts of experience. The Whitney Opens 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

“The book is compendious and revelatory, a statement of the man in his own words, and I found myself knowing my father in new ways through these letters.” John le Carré’s Letters Show the Author at His Witty, Erudite and Pugilistic Best 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

A compendious architectural history of these little known buildings, the book is also a document of a singular artistic and intellectual society in formation. The Calming Quiet of Outer Cape Cod 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Their author's real strength is his compendious understanding of the human stories driving the grand political narrative. George RR Martin's fantasy is not far from reality 2011-07-26T11:52:51Z

Ms. Carr’s biography is both sympathetic and compendious; it’s also a many-angled account of the downtown art world of the 1980s. Books Of the Times: ‘Fire in the Belly,’ on David Wojnarowicz, by Cynthia Carr 2012-07-19T21:57:47Z

He was the author of almost 90 books, the most famous of which was the compendious Churchill biography begun in the 1960s by Churchill’s son, Randolph. Martin Gilbert, Churchill Biographer With a Populist Bent, Is Dead at 78 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

These works don’t attempt to replace the compendious authority of traditional biography but, rather, enter into dialogue with it by reflecting more on some facts in a life and its work than on others. The Blind Poet Who Saw Visions of Religious and Political Freedom 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

The two early works by him that happily overlapped this season in major London productions are often regarded as the merely playful jeux d’esprit of a giddy lad with an insatiable and compendious mind. Stoppard Classics, Reborn for an Age of Uncertainty 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

These features sit alongside a compendious exhibition, music and film review section – the Skinny certainly doesn't skimp on the breadth of its arts coverage. The Skinny to launch new arts listings magazine in Manchester and Liverpool 2013-01-30T15:22:00Z

Or as Hedges compendiously described it: “It’s a memory play told from the perspective of the grandson about his grandmother, who loses her ability to remember things.” Actors Lucas Hedges and Michael Cera share what it's like to be onstage with Elaine May - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

His office produced a compendious report in June called, “How China’s Economic Aggression Threatens the Technologies and Intellectual Property of the United States and the World.” Trump Has Put the U.S. and China on the Cusp of a New Cold War 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Joyce was well aware of his compendious cast of mind and proud to find it manifest among his children. The Strange Case of the Missing Joyce Scholar 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, astronomers and astrophysicists came together to write a single compendious paper about the event. Merging neutron stars generate gravitational waves and a celestial light show 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

His frantic energy persists, but it is turned to the single-minded pursuit of new, ever weirder sounds to use in his music, sampled from his compendious collection of records. Germany’s techno DJs, a thoughtful lot 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

Each sonnet is printed on one page, while that opposite is occupied by a compendious account in prose of the subject in hand. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z

But there is another way, more compendious still, of summing up his political chronicle. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z

Knowing the value of the acceleration of gravity, and Galileo's laws of descent, we possess simple and compendious directions for reproducing in thought all possible motions of falling bodies. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z

Jubal in short originates what we now compendiously describe as the Fine Arts. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z

Stark's Guide and History of British Guiana, is a complete and compendious handbook for tourists and immigrants. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z

This summing up is not a generalization or compendious statement of the commands of God; it signifies their reduction to a fundamental principle. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z

It has heretofore been noted that, in 1821, when he marked out for himself his first formal plan of study, he included "the compendious history of North America" as one of the subjects. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z

Physics shares with mathematics the advantages of succinct description and of brief, compendious definition, which precludes confusion, even in ideas where, with no apparent burdening of the brain, hosts of others are contained. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z

The complete institutions of which this academy had to boast, even in its outset, are described in a compendious manner by its accomplished secretary, in his work entitled the New Guide, already frequently cited. The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century 2012-02-25T03:00:10.400Z

The 13th chapter, devoted to this subject, is a compendious and scientific production. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z

His privileges and special functions are very many; a compendious account of the principal of them may be found in the work of G. Moroni, vol. xix. p. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z

To this invention it must be conceded, that there cannot be a more compendious method of proceeding in the business than this of the Mushirumi, which might well deserve the imitation of our Western lovers. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z

But more than a compendious economical symbol for these phenomena, that name and thought is not. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z

Dean Plumptre has summed up the Dante movement in Germany in a compendious paragraph that must find a place here. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z

Of all languages, this is the most compendious in complement, and consequently fittest for courtiers and ladies.... Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z

But whoever is dissatisfied with this compendious deduction, may trace my faults to certain accidents in my early education. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z

The moral obstacle, to put it compendiously, is the Inquisition. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z

The reader must not expect to find in it a compendious summary of the chief events in the history of ancient Greece. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z

They are much more than this; they are the compendious expression of the art impulses of a glorious century. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z

XI M. Comte's philosophy, in practice, might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus Christianity. Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley 2011-11-24T03:00:46.350Z

His compendious and readable handbooks were famed throughout the Moslem world, as he himself boasts, from India to Morocco, and did much to popularise the scientific culture of the day. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z

This compendious summary is to serve as a proposition, the proof of which we now purpose to outline. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z

To other persons they may serve as a compendious view of the most important discoveries relating to the subject. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z

Arithmetic is useful though Algebra is more compendious. The Principles Of Secularism 2011-07-22T02:00:17.390Z

To justify its dominance a single compendious reason is sufficient: it uplifts character as no other training can, and through influence on character it ennobles all methods of teaching and discipline. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z

It is certainly to the credit of Mill's sagacity that he did not follow his patron's example by setting aside Patristic testimony in so curt and compendious a manner140. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z

The long, foamy whites,—the short, glossy blacks whose hue was deeper than that of the raven’s wing,—were tied into bundles with twine from my compendious haversack. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z

A compendious French and English and English and French Dictionary, for the use of Students and Travellers. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z

A very useful volume; we do not know where we could find a more compendious manual of its subject. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z

I have gone through your letter, and shall wind up with a few words about my doings, which, by-the-bye, might be compendiously characterised by one word: nothing. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z

"A trifle,--a trifle," said Capriani taking a compendious map of Bohemia out of his pocket and spreading it out upon the table between Oswald and himself. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z

But this book was addressed to students of Political Science and is not short or compendious enough for the general public. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z

For their money, readers get a compendious global mix of reports on new thinking and trends from unlikely places. Tyler Brûlé, Media Maverick 2010-07-01T21:00:00Z

In order to write this compendious but highly readable book, Christopher Andrew, a professor of modern and contemporary history at Cambridge University, and his team of researchers plowed through some 400,000 MI5 files. 2010-01-31T05:38:00Z

This little work, containing a compendious classification of the three kingdoms of nature, was very favourably received. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History

For a long time just such a compendious volume, with just such concisely and authoritatively written articles, has been needed.... The Story of Malta

The theory of Evolution, as thus concerned with Organic life in particular, is compendiously described as "Transformism," under which head Darwinism is evidently included. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer

This "Saccharine" bears a somewhat long name, which, as it is a commercial article, might perhaps be compendiously replaced with "Sugarine." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93. September 17, 1887

This abridgment has been prepared in response to numerous requests that the work should be issued in a more compendious form. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II

What passed at Orvieto was thus afterwards compendiously related by Henry in a published statement of his case. The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII

The ministry have realized the compendious ideas of Caligula. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence

Perhaps he is more apt at binding a weighty thought in fewer words than his Translator, who felt himself as this disadvantage when he expressively portrayed the Latin as "a severe and compendious language." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845

The assembly met in September, 1664, by prorogation from the preceding September—a compendious mode of dispensing with the popular election. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia

With certain qualifications the statement is correct enough, but it is a rough compendious way of expressing the facts and it needs qualification. Logic, Inductive and Deductive

One of the most compendious and elegant phrases in which the genius of Keats has been defined is that of Leigh Hunt: “He never beheld an oak tree without seeing the Dryad.” Life of John Keats

It is p. 84embodied in the “Introduction” and the “General History” at the commencement of Shaw’s compendious work. The Annals of Willenhall

Life is short—and by this compendious style we take Time by the forelock. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2)

Goldsmith had a fine faculty in histories for presenting vital facts concisely, and making his pages compendious. Oliver Goldsmith

But a general proposition is not merely a compendious form for recording a number of particular facts.... Logic, Inductive and Deductive

To proclaim the Pope infallible was their compendious security against hostile States and Churches, against human liberty and authority, against disintegrating tolerance and rationalising science, against error and sin. The History of Freedom

Consistent with his primary law of being, Spinoza defines virtue not in terms of negations, inhibitions, deficiencies or restraints; virtue he defines in terms of positive human qualities compendiously called human power. The Philosophy of Spinoza

Truly, this is a compendious method of balancing accounts. Thoughts on African Colonization

The study of the fuller and clearer examples, such as we have cited above, enables us to explain many more compendious forms of expression. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3)

It can most compendiously be demonstrated with the help of the preceding canons. Logic, Inductive and Deductive

The confusion and the distress of Don Luis reached their climax when he heard his father thus compendiously tell the whole story. Pepita Ximenez

Convinced, I see that a more compendious nature may be obtained; a nature of effects only, to which neither the relations of place, or continuity of time, are always essential. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare

To the critic of the schools, ever ready with compendious label, he is the revolutionary destructive. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13

Dr. Isaac Taylor's Origin of the Aryans gives a compendious account of the question, concluding against the unity of the Aryans in point of race. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems

The only advantage of including the two forms in one expression, is compendious neatness. Logic, Inductive and Deductive

No charge could be fastened upon him, definitely criminal; and he was too strong to be crushed by that compendious tyranny which treated as an act of heresy the exposure of imposture or delinquency. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II.

Here is now fulfilled all that was typified by outward sacrifices in the Old Testament, since they have all passed away, and all of them may be said compendiously to preach the Gospel. The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained

He accordingly does little more than simply report the transactions in a compendious way, with all the documents necessary to a full understanding of the subject. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851

I was shown an essay on Ireland the other day in which the young writer compendiously remarked, "The Irish are a bloodthirsty, lazy, and resentful race." Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

What is the derivation and meaning of concise? of condensed? of compendious? English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions

It was in the middle of this compendious petition, "the lang prayer," that rheumatic old Scottish dames used to make a practice of "cheengin' the fit," as they stood devoutly through it. Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland

If he hears you pronounce with emphasis, that such a thing comes from Italy, and therefore must be in good taste, he will take the same compendious method of decision upon the first convenient occasion. Practical Education, Volume II

With this compendious system of tuition she is well satisfied, especially as it contains nothing which is new to her understanding, or foreign to her habits. Practical Education, Volume I

It will be my aim to remove the obstacles to your progress in as compendious a manner as it can be done without sacrificing utility to dispatch. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I

Fit is a compendious term for whatever fits the person, time, place, occasion, etc.; as, a fit person; a fit abode; a fit place. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions

New Edition, continued to the Peace of Paris, 1856, to which is added a compendious Index compiled expressly for this Edition. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid

This catalogue possesses, what every similar one should possess, a compendious and perspicuous account of the collector. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance

We were introduced there to M. Camille Friess, the author of a compendious history of Corsica, who was kind enough to show us some of the archives, of which he has the custody. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.

Hence arises a more compendious form of expression, giving origin to an ellipsis of a peculiar kind. A Handbook of the English Language

O that thou hadst it when this juggling fate Of soldiery first seiz'd me! at what rate Would I have bought it then; what was there but I would have giv'n for the compendious hut? Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II

"In some of his Epistles, he counterfeited that brief compendious manner of speech of the Lacedæmonians." The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar

Together with a compendious view of the Faith of a new Heaven and a new Church, in its Universal and Particular Forms. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance

Both have found out a shorter and more compendious policy. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge

Nevertheless, however compendious may be the expression, there are always two propositions wherever there is one conjunction. A Handbook of the English Language

Contains a great amount of information, accompanied with numerous illustrations, rendering it a compendious history of the subjects upon which it treats.—N.Y. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed

They do note," says he, "in some of his epistles that he counterfeited that brief compendious manner of speech of the Lacedæmonians. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar

Of this work, which is rather a compendious account of the several books published in the period above specified, there are copies upon strong writing paper—which the curious prefer. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance

The failure of some late attempts to ventilate public buildings invites me to set forth an Encyclop�dia of ventilation—at a cheap rate, and in a compendious form. Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

It is also highly important to remember that many double propositions may be expressed so compendiously as to look like one. A Handbook of the English Language

Under the head of "Records of Literature," he undertook to give a compendious account of "whatever works are published either at home or abroad worthy the attention of the public." Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.

Many other instances might be produced out of this compendious Volume, of the generous resistance the Spaniards made in several places, though Fortune favoured not their Arms. The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main

The notices of eminent men are compendious, but accurate; and the arrangement is at once lucid and new. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance

In many cases the compendious style is apt to fall into a vague generality, or the pith of the matter is liable to be missed; but such is not the case with Mr. Hildreth's. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851

The compendious expression of the second proposition is the first point of note in the syntax of conjunctions. A Handbook of the English Language

If to excellence and happiness there be any one way more compendious than another, next to friendship with the Supreme Being, it is this. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World

What he calls a law of Nature is only an induction from observed phenomena, a formula which serves compendiously to express them. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1

The descriptions are compendious, and the references respectable, and sometimes numerous. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance

He expressed all this compendiously by moaning “Oh, God!” Miss Mapp

Now compendiously abridged, and made of more use; with very considerable Improvements. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions

Sometimes they are all referred collectively to this common root, being comprehended under the compendious denomination of “the Fruits of the Spirit.” A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.

Cannot I, yet, find out a more compendious method than by this trunk, to save my servants the labour of speech, and mine ears the discord of sounds?” Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher

In compiling the Introductions, the additional notes, and footnotes, I have endeavoured to supply the reader with a compendious manual of reference. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2

Second Lecture.—This lecture comprises a compendious history of modern art; commencing with Massaccio. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843

There remains the derivative form of creation, compendiously styled evolution. Science and Morals and Other Essays

How does its beautiful simplicity also, and compendious brevity, give it rank before the laborious subtleties of Bellarmine! A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.

It seemed to him evident that the State would benefit if prisoners of the first class were liberated; prisoners of the second class educated; and prisoners of the third class put compendiously under water. Fragments of science, V. 1-2

Their design is to establish their house, and make it eminent, but they take a compendious way to shame and ruin it. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

The Blatant Beast, published twelve years later, is another attack on Pope almost as compendious and quite as virulent. Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast

Madeleine dismissed the subject with a compendious, “He’s the most killingly, screamingly funny little man that ever lived!” The Squirrel-Cage

A very complete and compendious work, apparently accurate and in beautiful style.”—Rev. The Education of American Girls

In default of that I have endeavoured to point out the most compendious and accessible sources where the figures I refer to may be seen in engravings. Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

I say, do that now, and thou takest a short and compendious way to win thy cause, and overcome Satan. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

These opinions are only expanded forms of the more compendious doctrine that Testamentary disposition is an institution of the Law of Nature. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society

Another compendious list is published by the American Library Association. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries

Two qualities, according to Bokenam, characterize his own style; he writes "compendiously" and he avoids "gay speech." Early Theories of Translation

It thus gives a compendious history of editorial judgment on all disputed points. The Facts About Shakespeare

This were the compendious way for public peace, if every man would make his own peace with God. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

The cheaper and more compendious histories of course are not affected. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.

All visitors to Merchester are directed towards St. Hospital, and they dote over it—the American visitors especially; because nowhere in England can one find the Middle Ages more compendiously summarised or more charmingly illustrated. Brother Copas

It is, perhaps, too compendious; and I dislike its being given in the form of letters. Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew

Nearly everything, it seemed; so for the next ten minutes her companion held forth in a compendious but concise exordium on the great American game. White Ashes

Here then is the most compendious and comprehensive way to have your desires in this life granted, to get your necessities supplied. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

I had occupied and amused a long life," said he, "in the search of such a compendious wisdom-box, but without being able to find or make it. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.

To be brief and compendious on this book, it appears to be a heart unveiled. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860

It is a popular and compendious reproduction of the Acta Sanctorum, exhibiting great industry and research, and is in all respects the best work of its kind in English literature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"

Fearlessly launching into the problem of universal being, the first philosophy attempted to supply a compendious and decisive solution of every doubt. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

Prayer is the most compendious way of remedy of all things else. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

Webster had a compendious mode of stating great truths. New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words

This is a very thorough and compendious history of the art of architecture from the earliest times down to the present.... A Text-Book of the History of Painting

Some persons, who hate all innovations, will pronounce all this 'mummery,' which is a very compendious piece of criticism. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

No, it is my scimitar; which I, by construction often studying to be compendious, call my smiter. The Growth of English Drama

Prayer would be the compendious way of it. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

The following is a compendious list; the details have been given in the course of the work: No. 1. Life of St. Francis of Assisi

The Saturday Review says: "The Globe Editions are admirable for their scholarly editing, their typographical excellence, their compendious form, and their cheapness." Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series)

The ordering of an upright and happy life is attainable by an easy and compendious method, when inclination is not lacking. The Training of a Public Speaker

There was never so compendious a piece of absolute universal tyranny. Andrew Marvell

Here is a compendious way to glorify God. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

For more compendious views, see in Alexander's Kitto and Smith's Dictionary of the Bible the articles entitled Chronology. Companion to the Bible

There probably never was a time when a clear and compendious account of contemporary physical research was more needed.... Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded

He proceeded to explain, compendiously, his doings of the past week, to which the girl listened politely. The Half-Hearted

Of the proposed oath Marvell says, “No Conveyancer could ever in more compendious or binding terms have drawn a dissettlement of the whole birthright of England.” Andrew Marvell

O, it were the most compendious way to advance it with more ease to your souls! The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

He was able, quite beyond the powers of any man of my acquaintance, to put compendiously into words the secrets of successful editing. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I

The compendious method of silencing a gainsayer or satisfying an anxious inquirer by flourishing a New Testament in his face, and crying 'En sacrum codicem,' seems hardly likely to have been very effective. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

In fact, M. Comte's philosophy in practice might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus Christianity. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews

In the second century Baptism was called "regeneration" and the Eucharistic bread was known by the compendious designation of "the Lord's body." The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution

My second reason is that the poem, being brief, compendious and quite simple in structure, can be handily expounded; "Job" is what Milton precisely called it, 'a brief model.' On The Art of Reading

And he shall inform himself in a compendious manner with regard to everything else requiring his attention. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

In fact, M. Comte's philosophy, in practice, might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus Christianity. Lectures and Essays

The apparatus and reagents employed are compendious and small in number, so that they can be carried easily while on scientific excursions, a considerable advantage for mineralogists and metallurgists. A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations

So great was his character as a mischief-maker, that Vincent and Fendall saw no nearer way to safety than that hasty and compendious one. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings

Judges, the legal advisers to parties in litigation, clerks to local authorities, and others, ought to have in compendious form before them the whole Statute Law on a subject under discussion. Rebuilding Britain A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War

Finally, he forgets that the very "children are taught formulas of prayer in which they may compendiously curse Jews and Christians and all unbelievers." Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891

In our own times the words "slave-holder," "abolitionist," "loyal," "disloyal," and "rebel" have formed the compendious summing up of years of history. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs

And with his name it is a pleasure to associate in one compendious acknowledgement the names of Dr. Henry Bradley and Mr. Percy Simpson. Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles

Our compendious wardrobes were snugly packed into bundles and laid aside for the present. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I

The cursory treatment of this Elfin criterion will now compendiously place before the reader, as much illustration of the two above-given heads as we dare impose upon him. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844

This is still the most accurate and compendious description of its object and the nature of its work. The History of the Fabian Society

It will be seen that I have quoted repeatedly from this volume, because it is the most compendious and careful compilation with which I am acquainted of the information previously existing regarding the elephant. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon

He is buried in the church at Warwick, and the inscription on his tomb, written by himself, is a compendious biography. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

Southey and Cottle's edition is very compendious so far as matter goes, and contains much that is printed for the first time. The Rowley Poems

But with the working people it is not so well, whom we lump together into a kind of dim, compendious unity, monstrous but dim, far off, as the canaille. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History

The single verse I quote is compendious enough and descriptive enough for an Elizabethan monumental inscription. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Voltaire was determined henceforward to distil its spirit into more compendious and popular forms. Landmarks in French Literature

This classification undoubtedly expresses many of the most important facts in vertebrate structure in a clear and compendious way; whether it is the best that can he adopted remains to be seen. Critiques and Addresses

O sad! that we are not more taken up in this study, which would be a compendious way for us to know all? Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life

"This is a compendious confession of faith," said Henry; and, pausing, "why do you put genius first?" Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio

In Murphy's Essay on the Life and Genius of Dr. Johnson, there is a compendious account of the benevolent travels of the Portuguese missionary, who may fairly be called the precursor of Bruce. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces

In reply, Serjeant Dowse said: "The argument of the hon. and learned Member, compendiously stated, amounts to this—because some judges are old women, therefore all old women are fit to be judges." Collections and Recollections

"They seize the compendious blessing without exertion and without reflexion." The Grammar of English Grammars

More than half the time they were expressed in the compendious and beautiful words given to man by Christ himself, the model and substance of all petitions of this nature. The Crater

The object of statistical science is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development

The conditions of speech make it indispensable for us to use definite and compendious names for movements that were both tardy and complex. On Compromise

But besides the obvious incentives just noticed, Mr. Macaulay had also the stimulus of what we may compendiously call a strong party spirit. Famous Reviews

Sylvia did not go to the wedding, although an invitation had come, addressed economically and compendiously to "Professor and Mrs. Marshall and family." The Bent Twig

Pethel took it in the most compendious form, and crumpled it into his pocket. James Pethel

Slice after slice I tore down and devoured, as though my maw were as compendious as Jack the Giant Killer's. Tracks of a Rolling Stone

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre comprises very compendiously almost all the spots associated with the closing career of our Lord. Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East

You would send them to Africa, out of your sight and smell, and then send a missionary or two to do up all the self-denial of elevating them compendiously. Uncle Tom's Cabin

He began to see that the town life was a book of humanity infinitely more palpitating, varied, and compendious than the gown life. Jude the Obscure

Shall I teach you a compendious method of courtship, that will give you no trouble whatever? Nightmare Abbey

There never was at any time written a more excellent, complete, nor compendious book of virtues. Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther

The most compendious reply is the magnetism of the love of God as revealed in Christ. Understanding the Scriptures

I beg of you to prevent, in these Youngsters, this compendious Way to Wisdom, which costs other People so much Time and Pains, and you will oblige Your humble Servant. The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays

Another Kiche work, which has excited a lively but not very intelligent interest among European scholars, is the Popol Vuh, National Book, a compendious account of their mythology and traditional history. Aboriginal American Authors

Cannot I, yet, find out a more compendious method, than by this trunk, to save my servants the labour of speech, and mine ears the discord of sounds? Literary Remains, Volume 2

While others wish thee wise and fair, A maid of spotless fame, I'll breathe this more compendious prayer— May'st thou deserve thy name! Literary Remains, Volume 1

Those who class all mankind compendiously and comfortably under the two exhaustive species of saints and villains, may consider such a description garbled and impossible. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography

But 'art is a second nature, and imitateth that dextrously and compendiously, which nature performs by ambages and length of time.' The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded

You've heard how short, concise, and compendious he is in his answers. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5

Let him look it all up in the admirably compendious pages of Hare and Murray, and believe, if he can, that I missed nothing of that history and mystery. Roman Holidays, and Others

But it must be confessed he spared himself as little as other people, and often wound up with this compendious injunction,—"Be everything in your behavior that Doctor Grim is not!" Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance

A.--The single acting engine is a remnant of engineering barbarism which must now be superseded by more compendious contrivances. A Catechism of the Steam Engine

He luckily turns aside from that compendious study of natural history, which might have superseded Buffon, to his proper spiritual pursuits, only just hinting what a philosopher he might have been. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842

He keeps all their accounts for them, and sums them up, not by debtor, but creditor alone--a more compendious way. Character Writings of the 17th Century

These facts, highly honorable to Lee and his troops, are the plainest and most compendious comment we can make upon the campaign. A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee

History of the State of Venice, in a compendious manner. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives

In revenge for the insults heaped upon the Jew by the dotards and dastards of the city of Constantine, I sought out an instrument of compendious ruin. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction

Although much of Crashaw's poem, The Weeper, is beautiful, he calls the eyes of Mary Magdalene:— "Two walking baths, two weeping motions, Portable and compendious oceans." Halleck's New English Literature

A compendious statement weighs together the various thoughts and aspects of a subject; it shows by means of a few effective words just what these amount to, gives a summary of them. The Century Vocabulary Builder

In 1552 were published the well-known Forty-two Articles of Religion, which formed a compendious creed of the reformed faith. General History for Colleges and High Schools

If this compendious reproduction were complete in all cases, it would be very easy to construct the whole story of evolution on an embryonic basis. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2

He then made a compendious selection of the treasonable and profane passages it contained. Fielding

In reality, the ancient censor, in some parts of his office, was neither more nor less than a compendious legislator. The Caesars

The matter may be compendiously stated as follows. Ancient China Simplified

In the mode of working, the foreign labourers had of course much to learn from the English, whose experience in railway- making had taught them the most compendious processes for moving earth. Lectures and Essays

The Sorites is the neatest and most compendious form that can be assumed by a train of reasoning. Deductive Logic

For ten seconds or more I am furiously seeking in my mind for a word, for a term of abuse, for one compendious verbal missile that shall smash this man for ever. A Modern Utopia

Consequently he must first prepare his thoughts, and then pick out, from Virgil, Horace, Ovid, or perhaps more compendiously from his Gradus, halves and quarters of lines, in which to embody them. Biographia Literaria

This compendious treatise is upon a most important subject, and detects dangerous errors enveloped in most insinuating sophistry. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02

Afterwards they found out the more compendious ways of making one character stand in place of several strokes or points. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

For purposes of general convenience they admit of a much more compendious mode of expression. Deductive Logic

MOR: Cannot I, yet, find out a more compendious method, than by this trunk, to save my servants the labour of speech, and mine ears the discord of sounds? Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman

And to us two youngsters as we walked along the cinder path beside the rutted road and argued out our perplexities, it seemed that this ridge gave us compendiously a view of our whole world. In the Days of the Comet

This compendious scheme struck the imagination, but did not satisfy the judgment of the assembly. A Woman-Hater

Meantime a wish has often been expressed that the book should be issued in a more compendious form. The Golden Bough

"I suppose I will be sick, too, if it gets rougher," she said, and she turned from him to give a rather compendious order to the table steward. The Kentons

That the former of these ends requireth a method not the same whereby it was invented and induced, but such as is most compendious and ready whereby it may be used and applied. Valerius Terminus; of the interpretation of nature

"She wants to go out again; that's the only thing in the wide world she wants," Rose had promptly, compendiously said to herself. The Chaperon

He sat down by his lamp and tried to read—to read a little compendious life of a great English statesman, out of a "series." Nona Vincent

Let thy course ever be the most compendious way. Meditations

He had only two days to acquire this accomplishment in: so he took a compendious method. Put Yourself in His Place

Our Doctor, however, displayed so copious, so compendious a knowledge of authors, books, and every branch of learning in that language, that the gentleman appeared astonished. Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson

Without pausing to speak of the "old saws," therefore, I shall content myself with a compendious account of some of the more "modern instances." The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4

Let us diligently follow that, and be compendious with the remainder. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20

Washing followed; more compendious than his Father's used to be. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16

Next, you must all learn political economy, which I will teach you, very compendiously, in lectures over the bottle. Crotchet Castle

Not only was the line elegantly sonorous; it was also, I flattered myself, very aptly compendiously expressive. Crome Yellow

By another stroke still more compendious at sea, he had already settled poor young Hakon, and made him peaceable for a long while. Early Kings of Norway

The damsels wear nothing but flowers and their compendious gala tunics; and when they plume themselves for the dance, they look like a band of olive-coloured Sylphides on the point of taking wing. Typee

Please therefore, if you talk with me, to adopt the latter or more compendious method. Protagoras

To bring home and render so great a spoil compendiously has been my capital difficulty. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse

Whom, however, we lump together into a kind of dim compendious unity, monstrous but dim, far off, as the canaille; or, more humanely, as 'the masses.' The French Revolution

There was likewise the allurement of some compendious show of wild beasts; in short, a swatch of every thing that the art of man has devised for such occasions, to wile away the bawbee. The Provost

It was in the middle of this compendious petition, 'the lang prayer,' that rheumatic old Scottish dames used to make a practice of 'cheengin' the fit,' as they stood devoutly through it. Penelope's Experiences in Scotland

What of this, since, to put it compendiously, there is nothing serviceable to the life of man worth speaking of but owes its fabrication to fire? The Memorabilia

Or, to put the patter compendiously, Agesilaus exulted in hard work: indolence he utterly repudiated. Agesilaus

单词	compendious
例句	compendious Sony’s new set is one of the most compendious efforts at archival excavation that the major labels have yet offered. 120 CDs Later, a Conductor’s Legacy Is Still Uncertain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z It may be odd not to find it in this compendious store of resonances . Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Her new book, How to be a Victorian – sturdy, Beetonian, compendious – has bigger ambitions. How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman – review 2013-07-12T11:00:01Z They were unveiled to the world with compendious lists of sponsors' names and logos attached. Serpentine's star pavilions 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z He also regularly dived into Bartlett’s, the compendious anthology first published in 1855, whose 16th and 17th editions he would one day edit. Justin Kaplan, Literary Biographer, Dies at 88 2014-03-04T05:34:11Z One gap in her compendious CV I note is any Beckett. Judi Dench: 'I never want to stop working' 2012-10-13T23:05:47Z For those not yet properly acquainted with this man's compendious oeuvre, a riveting encyclopedia of human frailty awaits your exploration. Bill Callahan: 'I've finally accepted that I'm an entertainer' 2011-03-31T11:47:40Z It is in all ways compendious: plenty of room, lots of light, and hospitality to many sorts of experience. The Whitney Opens 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z “The book is compendious and revelatory, a statement of the man in his own words, and I found myself knowing my father in new ways through these letters.” John le Carré’s Letters Show the Author at His Witty, Erudite and Pugilistic Best 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z A compendious architectural history of these little known buildings, the book is also a document of a singular artistic and intellectual society in formation. The Calming Quiet of Outer Cape Cod 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Their author's real strength is his compendious understanding of the human stories driving the grand political narrative. George RR Martin's fantasy is not far from reality 2011-07-26T11:52:51Z Ms. Carr’s biography is both sympathetic and compendious; it’s also a many-angled account of the downtown art world of the 1980s. Books Of the Times: ‘Fire in the Belly,’ on David Wojnarowicz, by Cynthia Carr 2012-07-19T21:57:47Z He was the author of almost 90 books, the most famous of which was the compendious Churchill biography begun in the 1960s by Churchill’s son, Randolph. Martin Gilbert, Churchill Biographer With a Populist Bent, Is Dead at 78 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z These works don’t attempt to replace the compendious authority of traditional biography but, rather, enter into dialogue with it by reflecting more on some facts in a life and its work than on others. The Blind Poet Who Saw Visions of Religious and Political Freedom 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The two early works by him that happily overlapped this season in major London productions are often regarded as the merely playful jeux d’esprit of a giddy lad with an insatiable and compendious mind. Stoppard Classics, Reborn for an Age of Uncertainty 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z These features sit alongside a compendious exhibition, music and film review section – the Skinny certainly doesn't skimp on the breadth of its arts coverage. The Skinny to launch new arts listings magazine in Manchester and Liverpool 2013-01-30T15:22:00Z Or as Hedges compendiously described it: “It’s a memory play told from the perspective of the grandson about his grandmother, who loses her ability to remember things.” Actors Lucas Hedges and Michael Cera share what it's like to be onstage with Elaine May - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z His office produced a compendious report in June called, “How China’s Economic Aggression Threatens the Technologies and Intellectual Property of the United States and the World.” Trump Has Put the U.S. and China on the Cusp of a New Cold War 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Joyce was well aware of his compendious cast of mind and proud to find it manifest among his children. The Strange Case of the Missing Joyce Scholar 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, astronomers and astrophysicists came together to write a single compendious paper about the event. Merging neutron stars generate gravitational waves and a celestial light show 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z His frantic energy persists, but it is turned to the single-minded pursuit of new, ever weirder sounds to use in his music, sampled from his compendious collection of records. Germany’s techno DJs, a thoughtful lot 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Each sonnet is printed on one page, while that opposite is occupied by a compendious account in prose of the subject in hand. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z But there is another way, more compendious still, of summing up his political chronicle. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z Knowing the value of the acceleration of gravity, and Galileo's laws of descent, we possess simple and compendious directions for reproducing in thought all possible motions of falling bodies. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Jubal in short originates what we now compendiously describe as the Fine Arts. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z Stark's Guide and History of British Guiana, is a complete and compendious handbook for tourists and immigrants. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z This summing up is not a generalization or compendious statement of the commands of God; it signifies their reduction to a fundamental principle. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z It has heretofore been noted that, in 1821, when he marked out for himself his first formal plan of study, he included "the compendious history of North America" as one of the subjects. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z Physics shares with mathematics the advantages of succinct description and of brief, compendious definition, which precludes confusion, even in ideas where, with no apparent burdening of the brain, hosts of others are contained. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z The complete institutions of which this academy had to boast, even in its outset, are described in a compendious manner by its accomplished secretary, in his work entitled the New Guide, already frequently cited. The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century 2012-02-25T03:00:10.400Z The 13th chapter, devoted to this subject, is a compendious and scientific production. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z His privileges and special functions are very many; a compendious account of the principal of them may be found in the work of G. Moroni, vol. xix. p. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z To this invention it must be conceded, that there cannot be a more compendious method of proceeding in the business than this of the Mushirumi, which might well deserve the imitation of our Western lovers. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z But more than a compendious economical symbol for these phenomena, that name and thought is not. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Dean Plumptre has summed up the Dante movement in Germany in a compendious paragraph that must find a place here. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z Of all languages, this is the most compendious in complement, and consequently fittest for courtiers and ladies.... Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z But whoever is dissatisfied with this compendious deduction, may trace my faults to certain accidents in my early education. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z The moral obstacle, to put it compendiously, is the Inquisition. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z The reader must not expect to find in it a compendious summary of the chief events in the history of ancient Greece. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z They are much more than this; they are the compendious expression of the art impulses of a glorious century. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z XI M. Comte's philosophy, in practice, might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus Christianity. Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley 2011-11-24T03:00:46.350Z His compendious and readable handbooks were famed throughout the Moslem world, as he himself boasts, from India to Morocco, and did much to popularise the scientific culture of the day. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z This compendious summary is to serve as a proposition, the proof of which we now purpose to outline. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z To other persons they may serve as a compendious view of the most important discoveries relating to the subject. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z Arithmetic is useful though Algebra is more compendious. The Principles Of Secularism 2011-07-22T02:00:17.390Z To justify its dominance a single compendious reason is sufficient: it uplifts character as no other training can, and through influence on character it ennobles all methods of teaching and discipline. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z It is certainly to the credit of Mill's sagacity that he did not follow his patron's example by setting aside Patristic testimony in so curt and compendious a manner140. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z The long, foamy whites,—the short, glossy blacks whose hue was deeper than that of the raven’s wing,—were tied into bundles with twine from my compendious haversack. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z A compendious French and English and English and French Dictionary, for the use of Students and Travellers. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z A very useful volume; we do not know where we could find a more compendious manual of its subject. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z I have gone through your letter, and shall wind up with a few words about my doings, which, by-the-bye, might be compendiously characterised by one word: nothing. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z "A trifle,--a trifle," said Capriani taking a compendious map of Bohemia out of his pocket and spreading it out upon the table between Oswald and himself. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z But this book was addressed to students of Political Science and is not short or compendious enough for the general public. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z For their money, readers get a compendious global mix of reports on new thinking and trends from unlikely places. Tyler Brûlé, Media Maverick 2010-07-01T21:00:00Z In order to write this compendious but highly readable book, Christopher Andrew, a professor of modern and contemporary history at Cambridge University, and his team of researchers plowed through some 400,000 MI5 files. 2010-01-31T05:38:00Z This little work, containing a compendious classification of the three kingdoms of nature, was very favourably received. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History For a long time just such a compendious volume, with just such concisely and authoritatively written articles, has been needed.... The Story of Malta The theory of Evolution, as thus concerned with Organic life in particular, is compendiously described as "Transformism," under which head Darwinism is evidently included. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer This "Saccharine" bears a somewhat long name, which, as it is a commercial article, might perhaps be compendiously replaced with "Sugarine." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93. September 17, 1887 This abridgment has been prepared in response to numerous requests that the work should be issued in a more compendious form. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II What passed at Orvieto was thus afterwards compendiously related by Henry in a published statement of his case. The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII The ministry have realized the compendious ideas of Caligula. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence Perhaps he is more apt at binding a weighty thought in fewer words than his Translator, who felt himself as this disadvantage when he expressively portrayed the Latin as "a severe and compendious language." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 The assembly met in September, 1664, by prorogation from the preceding September—a compendious mode of dispensing with the popular election. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia With certain qualifications the statement is correct enough, but it is a rough compendious way of expressing the facts and it needs qualification. Logic, Inductive and Deductive One of the most compendious and elegant phrases in which the genius of Keats has been defined is that of Leigh Hunt: “He never beheld an oak tree without seeing the Dryad.” Life of John Keats It is p. 84embodied in the “Introduction” and the “General History” at the commencement of Shaw’s compendious work. The Annals of Willenhall Life is short—and by this compendious style we take Time by the forelock. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Goldsmith had a fine faculty in histories for presenting vital facts concisely, and making his pages compendious. Oliver Goldsmith But a general proposition is not merely a compendious form for recording a number of particular facts.... Logic, Inductive and Deductive To proclaim the Pope infallible was their compendious security against hostile States and Churches, against human liberty and authority, against disintegrating tolerance and rationalising science, against error and sin. The History of Freedom Consistent with his primary law of being, Spinoza defines virtue not in terms of negations, inhibitions, deficiencies or restraints; virtue he defines in terms of positive human qualities compendiously called human power. The Philosophy of Spinoza Truly, this is a compendious method of balancing accounts. Thoughts on African Colonization The study of the fuller and clearer examples, such as we have cited above, enables us to explain many more compendious forms of expression. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) It can most compendiously be demonstrated with the help of the preceding canons. Logic, Inductive and Deductive The confusion and the distress of Don Luis reached their climax when he heard his father thus compendiously tell the whole story. Pepita Ximenez Convinced, I see that a more compendious nature may be obtained; a nature of effects only, to which neither the relations of place, or continuity of time, are always essential. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare To the critic of the schools, ever ready with compendious label, he is the revolutionary destructive. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Dr. Isaac Taylor's Origin of the Aryans gives a compendious account of the question, concluding against the unity of the Aryans in point of race. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems The only advantage of including the two forms in one expression, is compendious neatness. Logic, Inductive and Deductive No charge could be fastened upon him, definitely criminal; and he was too strong to be crushed by that compendious tyranny which treated as an act of heresy the exposure of imposture or delinquency. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. Here is now fulfilled all that was typified by outward sacrifices in the Old Testament, since they have all passed away, and all of them may be said compendiously to preach the Gospel. The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained He accordingly does little more than simply report the transactions in a compendious way, with all the documents necessary to a full understanding of the subject. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 I was shown an essay on Ireland the other day in which the young writer compendiously remarked, "The Irish are a bloodthirsty, lazy, and resentful race." Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland What is the derivation and meaning of concise? of condensed? of compendious? English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions It was in the middle of this compendious petition, "the lang prayer," that rheumatic old Scottish dames used to make a practice of "cheengin' the fit," as they stood devoutly through it. Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland If he hears you pronounce with emphasis, that such a thing comes from Italy, and therefore must be in good taste, he will take the same compendious method of decision upon the first convenient occasion. Practical Education, Volume II With this compendious system of tuition she is well satisfied, especially as it contains nothing which is new to her understanding, or foreign to her habits. Practical Education, Volume I It will be my aim to remove the obstacles to your progress in as compendious a manner as it can be done without sacrificing utility to dispatch. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I Fit is a compendious term for whatever fits the person, time, place, occasion, etc.; as, a fit person; a fit abode; a fit place. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions New Edition, continued to the Peace of Paris, 1856, to which is added a compendious Index compiled expressly for this Edition. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid This catalogue possesses, what every similar one should possess, a compendious and perspicuous account of the collector. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance We were introduced there to M. Camille Friess, the author of a compendious history of Corsica, who was kind enough to show us some of the archives, of which he has the custody. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Hence arises a more compendious form of expression, giving origin to an ellipsis of a peculiar kind. A Handbook of the English Language O that thou hadst it when this juggling fate Of soldiery first seiz'd me! at what rate Would I have bought it then; what was there but I would have giv'n for the compendious hut? Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II "In some of his Epistles, he counterfeited that brief compendious manner of speech of the Lacedæmonians." The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar Together with a compendious view of the Faith of a new Heaven and a new Church, in its Universal and Particular Forms. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Both have found out a shorter and more compendious policy. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Nevertheless, however compendious may be the expression, there are always two propositions wherever there is one conjunction. A Handbook of the English Language Contains a great amount of information, accompanied with numerous illustrations, rendering it a compendious history of the subjects upon which it treats.—N.Y. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed They do note," says he, "in some of his epistles that he counterfeited that brief compendious manner of speech of the Lacedæmonians. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar Of this work, which is rather a compendious account of the several books published in the period above specified, there are copies upon strong writing paper—which the curious prefer. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance The failure of some late attempts to ventilate public buildings invites me to set forth an Encyclop�dia of ventilation—at a cheap rate, and in a compendious form. Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc It is also highly important to remember that many double propositions may be expressed so compendiously as to look like one. A Handbook of the English Language Under the head of "Records of Literature," he undertook to give a compendious account of "whatever works are published either at home or abroad worthy the attention of the public." Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. Many other instances might be produced out of this compendious Volume, of the generous resistance the Spaniards made in several places, though Fortune favoured not their Arms. The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main The notices of eminent men are compendious, but accurate; and the arrangement is at once lucid and new. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance In many cases the compendious style is apt to fall into a vague generality, or the pith of the matter is liable to be missed; but such is not the case with Mr. Hildreth's. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 The compendious expression of the second proposition is the first point of note in the syntax of conjunctions. A Handbook of the English Language If to excellence and happiness there be any one way more compendious than another, next to friendship with the Supreme Being, it is this. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World What he calls a law of Nature is only an induction from observed phenomena, a formula which serves compendiously to express them. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 The descriptions are compendious, and the references respectable, and sometimes numerous. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance He expressed all this compendiously by moaning “Oh, God!” Miss Mapp Now compendiously abridged, and made of more use; with very considerable Improvements. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Sometimes they are all referred collectively to this common root, being comprehended under the compendious denomination of “the Fruits of the Spirit.” A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. Cannot I, yet, find out a more compendious method than by this trunk, to save my servants the labour of speech, and mine ears the discord of sounds?” Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher In compiling the Introductions, the additional notes, and footnotes, I have endeavoured to supply the reader with a compendious manual of reference. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 Second Lecture.—This lecture comprises a compendious history of modern art; commencing with Massaccio. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 There remains the derivative form of creation, compendiously styled evolution. Science and Morals and Other Essays How does its beautiful simplicity also, and compendious brevity, give it rank before the laborious subtleties of Bellarmine! A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. It seemed to him evident that the State would benefit if prisoners of the first class were liberated; prisoners of the second class educated; and prisoners of the third class put compendiously under water. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Their design is to establish their house, and make it eminent, but they take a compendious way to shame and ruin it. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning The Blatant Beast, published twelve years later, is another attack on Pope almost as compendious and quite as virulent. Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast Madeleine dismissed the subject with a compendious, “He’s the most killingly, screamingly funny little man that ever lived!” The Squirrel-Cage A very complete and compendious work, apparently accurate and in beautiful style.”—Rev. The Education of American Girls In default of that I have endeavoured to point out the most compendious and accessible sources where the figures I refer to may be seen in engravings. Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. I say, do that now, and thou takest a short and compendious way to win thy cause, and overcome Satan. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning These opinions are only expanded forms of the more compendious doctrine that Testamentary disposition is an institution of the Law of Nature. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Another compendious list is published by the American Library Association. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Two qualities, according to Bokenam, characterize his own style; he writes "compendiously" and he avoids "gay speech." Early Theories of Translation It thus gives a compendious history of editorial judgment on all disputed points. The Facts About Shakespeare This were the compendious way for public peace, if every man would make his own peace with God. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning The cheaper and more compendious histories of course are not affected. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. All visitors to Merchester are directed towards St. Hospital, and they dote over it—the American visitors especially; because nowhere in England can one find the Middle Ages more compendiously summarised or more charmingly illustrated. Brother Copas It is, perhaps, too compendious; and I dislike its being given in the form of letters. Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew Nearly everything, it seemed; so for the next ten minutes her companion held forth in a compendious but concise exordium on the great American game. White Ashes Here then is the most compendious and comprehensive way to have your desires in this life granted, to get your necessities supplied. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning I had occupied and amused a long life," said he, "in the search of such a compendious wisdom-box, but without being able to find or make it. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. To be brief and compendious on this book, it appears to be a heart unveiled. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 It is a popular and compendious reproduction of the Acta Sanctorum, exhibiting great industry and research, and is in all respects the best work of its kind in English literature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Fearlessly launching into the problem of universal being, the first philosophy attempted to supply a compendious and decisive solution of every doubt. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Prayer is the most compendious way of remedy of all things else. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Webster had a compendious mode of stating great truths. New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words This is a very thorough and compendious history of the art of architecture from the earliest times down to the present.... A Text-Book of the History of Painting Some persons, who hate all innovations, will pronounce all this 'mummery,' which is a very compendious piece of criticism. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg No, it is my scimitar; which I, by construction often studying to be compendious, call my smiter. The Growth of English Drama Prayer would be the compendious way of it. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning The following is a compendious list; the details have been given in the course of the work: No. 1. Life of St. Francis of Assisi The Saturday Review says: "The Globe Editions are admirable for their scholarly editing, their typographical excellence, their compendious form, and their cheapness." Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) The ordering of an upright and happy life is attainable by an easy and compendious method, when inclination is not lacking. The Training of a Public Speaker There was never so compendious a piece of absolute universal tyranny. Andrew Marvell Here is a compendious way to glorify God. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning For more compendious views, see in Alexander's Kitto and Smith's Dictionary of the Bible the articles entitled Chronology. Companion to the Bible There probably never was a time when a clear and compendious account of contemporary physical research was more needed.... Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded He proceeded to explain, compendiously, his doings of the past week, to which the girl listened politely. The Half-Hearted Of the proposed oath Marvell says, “No Conveyancer could ever in more compendious or binding terms have drawn a dissettlement of the whole birthright of England.” Andrew Marvell O, it were the most compendious way to advance it with more ease to your souls! The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning He was able, quite beyond the powers of any man of my acquaintance, to put compendiously into words the secrets of successful editing. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I The compendious method of silencing a gainsayer or satisfying an anxious inquirer by flourishing a New Testament in his face, and crying 'En sacrum codicem,' seems hardly likely to have been very effective. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century In fact, M. Comte's philosophy in practice might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus Christianity. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews In the second century Baptism was called "regeneration" and the Eucharistic bread was known by the compendious designation of "the Lord's body." The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution My second reason is that the poem, being brief, compendious and quite simple in structure, can be handily expounded; "Job" is what Milton precisely called it, 'a brief model.' On The Art of Reading And he shall inform himself in a compendious manner with regard to everything else requiring his attention. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century In fact, M. Comte's philosophy, in practice, might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus Christianity. Lectures and Essays The apparatus and reagents employed are compendious and small in number, so that they can be carried easily while on scientific excursions, a considerable advantage for mineralogists and metallurgists. A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations So great was his character as a mischief-maker, that Vincent and Fendall saw no nearer way to safety than that hasty and compendious one. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings Judges, the legal advisers to parties in litigation, clerks to local authorities, and others, ought to have in compendious form before them the whole Statute Law on a subject under discussion. Rebuilding Britain A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War Finally, he forgets that the very "children are taught formulas of prayer in which they may compendiously curse Jews and Christians and all unbelievers." Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 In our own times the words "slave-holder," "abolitionist," "loyal," "disloyal," and "rebel" have formed the compendious summing up of years of history. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs And with his name it is a pleasure to associate in one compendious acknowledgement the names of Dr. Henry Bradley and Mr. Percy Simpson. Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Our compendious wardrobes were snugly packed into bundles and laid aside for the present. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I The cursory treatment of this Elfin criterion will now compendiously place before the reader, as much illustration of the two above-given heads as we dare impose upon him. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 This is still the most accurate and compendious description of its object and the nature of its work. The History of the Fabian Society It will be seen that I have quoted repeatedly from this volume, because it is the most compendious and careful compilation with which I am acquainted of the information previously existing regarding the elephant. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon He is buried in the church at Warwick, and the inscription on his tomb, written by himself, is a compendious biography. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Southey and Cottle's edition is very compendious so far as matter goes, and contains much that is printed for the first time. The Rowley Poems But with the working people it is not so well, whom we lump together into a kind of dim, compendious unity, monstrous but dim, far off, as the canaille. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History The single verse I quote is compendious enough and descriptive enough for an Elizabethan monumental inscription. Ralph Waldo Emerson Voltaire was determined henceforward to distil its spirit into more compendious and popular forms. Landmarks in French Literature This classification undoubtedly expresses many of the most important facts in vertebrate structure in a clear and compendious way; whether it is the best that can he adopted remains to be seen. Critiques and Addresses O sad! that we are not more taken up in this study, which would be a compendious way for us to know all? Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life "This is a compendious confession of faith," said Henry; and, pausing, "why do you put genius first?" Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio In Murphy's Essay on the Life and Genius of Dr. Johnson, there is a compendious account of the benevolent travels of the Portuguese missionary, who may fairly be called the precursor of Bruce. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces In reply, Serjeant Dowse said: "The argument of the hon. and learned Member, compendiously stated, amounts to this—because some judges are old women, therefore all old women are fit to be judges." Collections and Recollections "They seize the compendious blessing without exertion and without reflexion." The Grammar of English Grammars More than half the time they were expressed in the compendious and beautiful words given to man by Christ himself, the model and substance of all petitions of this nature. The Crater The object of statistical science is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development The conditions of speech make it indispensable for us to use definite and compendious names for movements that were both tardy and complex. On Compromise But besides the obvious incentives just noticed, Mr. Macaulay had also the stimulus of what we may compendiously call a strong party spirit. Famous Reviews Sylvia did not go to the wedding, although an invitation had come, addressed economically and compendiously to "Professor and Mrs. Marshall and family." The Bent Twig Pethel took it in the most compendious form, and crumpled it into his pocket. James Pethel Slice after slice I tore down and devoured, as though my maw were as compendious as Jack the Giant Killer's. Tracks of a Rolling Stone The Church of the Holy Sepulchre comprises very compendiously almost all the spots associated with the closing career of our Lord. Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East You would send them to Africa, out of your sight and smell, and then send a missionary or two to do up all the self-denial of elevating them compendiously. Uncle Tom's Cabin He began to see that the town life was a book of humanity infinitely more palpitating, varied, and compendious than the gown life. Jude the Obscure Shall I teach you a compendious method of courtship, that will give you no trouble whatever? Nightmare Abbey There never was at any time written a more excellent, complete, nor compendious book of virtues. Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther The most compendious reply is the magnetism of the love of God as revealed in Christ. Understanding the Scriptures I beg of you to prevent, in these Youngsters, this compendious Way to Wisdom, which costs other People so much Time and Pains, and you will oblige Your humble Servant. The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Another Kiche work, which has excited a lively but not very intelligent interest among European scholars, is the Popol Vuh, National Book, a compendious account of their mythology and traditional history. Aboriginal American Authors Cannot I, yet, find out a more compendious method, than by this trunk, to save my servants the labour of speech, and mine ears the discord of sounds? Literary Remains, Volume 2 While others wish thee wise and fair, A maid of spotless fame, I'll breathe this more compendious prayer— May'st thou deserve thy name! Literary Remains, Volume 1 Those who class all mankind compendiously and comfortably under the two exhaustive species of saints and villains, may consider such a description garbled and impossible. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography But 'art is a second nature, and imitateth that dextrously and compendiously, which nature performs by ambages and length of time.' The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded You've heard how short, concise, and compendious he is in his answers. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Let him look it all up in the admirably compendious pages of Hare and Murray, and believe, if he can, that I missed nothing of that history and mystery. Roman Holidays, and Others But it must be confessed he spared himself as little as other people, and often wound up with this compendious injunction,—"Be everything in your behavior that Doctor Grim is not!" Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance A.--The single acting engine is a remnant of engineering barbarism which must now be superseded by more compendious contrivances. A Catechism of the Steam Engine He luckily turns aside from that compendious study of natural history, which might have superseded Buffon, to his proper spiritual pursuits, only just hinting what a philosopher he might have been. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 He keeps all their accounts for them, and sums them up, not by debtor, but creditor alone--a more compendious way. Character Writings of the 17th Century These facts, highly honorable to Lee and his troops, are the plainest and most compendious comment we can make upon the campaign. A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee History of the State of Venice, in a compendious manner. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives In revenge for the insults heaped upon the Jew by the dotards and dastards of the city of Constantine, I sought out an instrument of compendious ruin. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction Although much of Crashaw's poem, The Weeper, is beautiful, he calls the eyes of Mary Magdalene:— "Two walking baths, two weeping motions, Portable and compendious oceans." Halleck's New English Literature A compendious statement weighs together the various thoughts and aspects of a subject; it shows by means of a few effective words just what these amount to, gives a summary of them. The Century Vocabulary Builder In 1552 were published the well-known Forty-two Articles of Religion, which formed a compendious creed of the reformed faith. General History for Colleges and High Schools If this compendious reproduction were complete in all cases, it would be very easy to construct the whole story of evolution on an embryonic basis. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 He then made a compendious selection of the treasonable and profane passages it contained. Fielding In reality, the ancient censor, in some parts of his office, was neither more nor less than a compendious legislator. The Caesars The matter may be compendiously stated as follows. Ancient China Simplified In the mode of working, the foreign labourers had of course much to learn from the English, whose experience in railway- making had taught them the most compendious processes for moving earth. Lectures and Essays The Sorites is the neatest and most compendious form that can be assumed by a train of reasoning. Deductive Logic For ten seconds or more I am furiously seeking in my mind for a word, for a term of abuse, for one compendious verbal missile that shall smash this man for ever. A Modern Utopia Consequently he must first prepare his thoughts, and then pick out, from Virgil, Horace, Ovid, or perhaps more compendiously from his Gradus, halves and quarters of lines, in which to embody them. Biographia Literaria This compendious treatise is upon a most important subject, and detects dangerous errors enveloped in most insinuating sophistry. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 Afterwards they found out the more compendious ways of making one character stand in place of several strokes or points. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge For purposes of general convenience they admit of a much more compendious mode of expression. Deductive Logic MOR: Cannot I, yet, find out a more compendious method, than by this trunk, to save my servants the labour of speech, and mine ears the discord of sounds? Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman And to us two youngsters as we walked along the cinder path beside the rutted road and argued out our perplexities, it seemed that this ridge gave us compendiously a view of our whole world. In the Days of the Comet This compendious scheme struck the imagination, but did not satisfy the judgment of the assembly. A Woman-Hater Meantime a wish has often been expressed that the book should be issued in a more compendious form. The Golden Bough "I suppose I will be sick, too, if it gets rougher," she said, and she turned from him to give a rather compendious order to the table steward. The Kentons That the former of these ends requireth a method not the same whereby it was invented and induced, but such as is most compendious and ready whereby it may be used and applied. Valerius Terminus; of the interpretation of nature "She wants to go out again; that's the only thing in the wide world she wants," Rose had promptly, compendiously said to herself. The Chaperon He sat down by his lamp and tried to read—to read a little compendious life of a great English statesman, out of a "series." Nona Vincent Let thy course ever be the most compendious way. Meditations He had only two days to acquire this accomplishment in: so he took a compendious method. Put Yourself in His Place Our Doctor, however, displayed so copious, so compendious a knowledge of authors, books, and every branch of learning in that language, that the gentleman appeared astonished. Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson Without pausing to speak of the "old saws," therefore, I shall content myself with a compendious account of some of the more "modern instances." The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Let us diligently follow that, and be compendious with the remainder. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 Washing followed; more compendious than his Father's used to be. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 Next, you must all learn political economy, which I will teach you, very compendiously, in lectures over the bottle. Crotchet Castle Not only was the line elegantly sonorous; it was also, I flattered myself, very aptly compendiously expressive. Crome Yellow By another stroke still more compendious at sea, he had already settled poor young Hakon, and made him peaceable for a long while. Early Kings of Norway The damsels wear nothing but flowers and their compendious gala tunics; and when they plume themselves for the dance, they look like a band of olive-coloured Sylphides on the point of taking wing. Typee Please therefore, if you talk with me, to adopt the latter or more compendious method. Protagoras To bring home and render so great a spoil compendiously has been my capital difficulty. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse Whom, however, we lump together into a kind of dim compendious unity, monstrous but dim, far off, as the canaille; or, more humanely, as 'the masses.' The French Revolution There was likewise the allurement of some compendious show of wild beasts; in short, a swatch of every thing that the art of man has devised for such occasions, to wile away the bawbee. The Provost It was in the middle of this compendious petition, 'the lang prayer,' that rheumatic old Scottish dames used to make a practice of 'cheengin' the fit,' as they stood devoutly through it. Penelope's Experiences in Scotland What of this, since, to put it compendiously, there is nothing serviceable to the life of man worth speaking of but owes its fabrication to fire? The Memorabilia Or, to put the patter compendiously, Agesilaus exulted in hard work: indolence he utterly repudiated. Agesilaus
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