These voyages are an original insertion by Alfred into his translation of Orosius's Compendious History of the World.
A Compendious French Grammar, For the use of Students and Travellers; with full instructions in Pronunciation, and containing the substance of all the best French Grammars in a neat portable form, easily carried in the pocket.
A compendious French and English and English and French Dictionary, for the use of Students and Travellers.
Dalzell, which contains a reprint of Ane Compendious Booke of Godly and Spirituall Songs, already referred to above.
I say, do that now, and thou takest a short and compendious way to win thy cause, and overcome Satan.
It is a matter of great consolation that God’s glory and our happiness are linked together, so that whoever set his glory before them singly to aim at, they take the most compendious and certain way to true blessedness.
This were the compendious way for public peace, if every man would make his own peace with God.
O, it were the most compendiousway to advance it with more ease to your souls!
Their design is to establish their house, and make it eminent, but they take a compendious way to shame and ruin it.
Prayer is the most compendious way of remedy of all things else.
Here then is the most compendious and comprehensive way to have your desires in this life granted, to get your necessities supplied.
How does its beautiful simplicity also, and compendious brevity, give it rank before the laborious subtleties of Bellarmine!
Sometimes they are all referred collectively to this common root, being comprehended under the compendious denomination of "the Fruits of the Spirit.
The doctrine, to say the best of it, can only serve to favour the indolence of man, while professing to furnish him with a compendious method of becoming wise and good, it supersedes the necessity of his own personal labours.
The events of the period are too slightly related to the subsequent history of the state to call for minute narration in the way of annals, and may preferably be grouped under a few heads for compendious treatment.
Although the French dominion existed for more than two hundred years, it is not important for the present compendious work that an elaborate account be made of their explorations and commerce.
In a compendious work it is impossible to follow in detail the career of this splendid regiment and those later sent out from Minnesota.
The Duke's "method" in spiritual affairs became indeed more and more compendious and energetic, as Rome's fears and exigencies became more urgent.
The most compendious and undeniable evidence of this may be found moreover in the fact, that four editions of her works were printed within twenty–five years after her death.
William Stafford, whose Compendious or briefe Examination of certain ordinary Complaints (otherwise called A Briefe Conceipt of English Policy) appeared in 1581.
The reader may be pleased to put the subject of Materialism before himself in a compendious shape as follows:--If the question asked be, "What is Matter?
The single verse I quote is compendious enough and descriptive enough for an Elizabethan monumental inscription.
Number Seven's compendious and comprehensive symbolism proved suggestive, as his whimsical notions often do.
The evenings of one winter, devoted to this subject, will enable a farmer to understand the application of analysis to practical farming, especially if other and more compendious works are also read.
Compendious History of the Reformation in France, Vol.
Law) Defn: A brief or informal note in writing of some transaction, or an outline of an intended instrument; an instrument drawn up in a brief and compendious form.
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.
In this compendious one will be found, at a very moderate price, all that is most practical and valuable in the former expensive edition, with a great accession of new words and matter.
The writer hopes that the great difficulty will not be overlooked with which he has had to contend, of compressing a vast subject into a compendious statement without allowing its life and interest to evaporate in the process.
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.
A Compendious Book of Godly and Spiritual Songs," 49 f.
A Compendious Book of Godly and Spiritual Songs,"# reprinted from the Edition of 1567 by A.
The Ministry have realized thecompendious ideas of Caligula.
See the Preface to my Compendious English Grammar in the American editions of the Treasury of Knowledge, Vol.
How many, who, proud and pedantic, hate all novelty, and damn it without mercy under one compendious word, Paradox?
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.
I have therefore endeavoured to provide for their use, in a compendious form, a survey of the general argument for revision, and of the facts which exhibit the present duty of Christian men in relation thereto.
Illustration: A Native Restaurant in its most compendious shape.
Illustration: A native restaurant in its simplest and most compendious shape.
Or some compendious cannon To take him off i' th' middle?
He had only two days to acquire this accomplishment in: so he took a compendious method.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compendious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
