Compends

It is difficult for Americans, whose acquaintance with European history is usually derived from compends, to realize what an incubus of complicated and conflicting privileges, restrictions and forms has, within the century, been lifted from the energies of the Old World. ❋ Various (N/A)

Grammars, manuals, compends, -- all the apparatus of the classes, -- were only oil to its flame. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Indian Wisdom," by Sir Monier Williams, is the most comprehensive, and in many ways the best, of all compends of Hindu religion and philosophy. ❋ Frank F. Ellinwood (N/A)

If he can read Livy, he has a good book; but one of the short English compends, some Goldsmith or Ferguson, should be used, that will place in the cycle the bright stars of Plutarch. ❋ Various (N/A)

Tannhäuser springs to his feet, the old contemptuousness toward these companions, -- compends of density, conventionality, and hypocrisy! ❋ Gertrude Hall Brownell (1912)

In the fifth and sixth centuries, the great compends were made that served as text-books for centuries. ❋ Joseph Cullen Ayer (1905)

And a compend of compends is the meat of a man or woman, ❋ Unknown (1900)

The very books about the books in this boundless field, the compends of the compends, the reviews of the reviews, form in themselves ❋ Harry Lyman Koopman (1898)

It is more than this, however; it is a piece of creative criticism, and though teaching not by example but by contraries, it forms one of the best existing brief compends of what a well-made book must be. ❋ Harry Lyman Koopman (1898)

Franklin, heard what he had to say, sifted it through the sieve of their own discretion, and bore to the ears of their principal only such compends as they thought worthy of attention. ❋ Unknown (1888)

De Witt Clinton, then Governor of the State, valued himself on his devotion to science and literature, but he was sometimes obliged, in his messages and public discourses, to refer to compends which are in every body's hands, and his antagonists made this the subject of unsparing ridicule. ❋ Bryant, William C (1870)

Encyclopedic compends of knowledge put at the disposition of students all that was known or fancied in the various fields of science. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

From her I often borrowed interesting books, compends of history, bible-stories, poems, &c. ❋ Unknown (1857)

"And I don't wonder that most compends of history which are studied in schools should inspire any lively young lady with a life-long horror, not only of history, but of reading." ❋ Unknown (1856)

Eminent contemporaneousness may see here how much space will be allotted to it in the historical compends and biographical dictionaries of the next generation. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

Rhyming Dictionary, and several Dictionaries of Quotations and cheap compends of knowledge. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

Dictionary, and several Dictionaries of Quotations and cheap compends of knowledge. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

'Je compends,' said Talleyrand; 'dequis qu'on a cessé de parler de lui, il se croit sourd.'" ❋ Various (N/A)

"A handy volume and a distinct improvement on students 'compends in general. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

After a [sumptuous] dinner, [Huck] expected Tina to compendate by giving him a [blow-job]. ❋ Surreality84 (2010)