"Compendious" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... also are your numerous references to Darwin's letters, so that the article serves as a compendious index to the five volumes, as regards ...
— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2) • James Marchant
... Professor C.H. Firth. My debt is not confined to his writings, references to which will be found continually in the notes. At every stage of the preparation of this volume I have had the advantage of his most generous interest. And with his name it is a pleasure to associate in one compendious acknowledgement the names of Dr. Henry Bradley and ...
— Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles • Various
... misnomed and insulted as "a Continuation of The Caxtons," with which biographical work it has no more to do (save in the aforesaid introductions to previous Books in the present diversified and compendious narrative) than I with Hecuba, or Hecuba with me. Reserving the doubt herein suggested for maturer deliberation, I proceed with my new Initial Chapter. And I shall stint the matter therein contained to a brief comment ...
— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various
... you thanks for his book, as I do with all acknowledgement and humility for that you have sent me. I shall now studie it even to the getting of it by heart; esteeming it, according to my poore judgment (which yet I wish it were so right in all things else), as the most compendious scale for so much to the height of the Roman Eloquence, when I consider how equally it turnes and rises with so many figures it seems to me a Trajan's columne, in whose winding ascent we see imboss'd the severall monuments of your learned victoryes: ...
— Andrew Marvell • Augustine Birrell
... modern Indian &c.] This compendious new way of magick is affirmed by Monsieur Le Blanc (in his travels) to be used ...
— Hudibras • Samuel Butler
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