compend

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The Second Article, says Zahn, is "a compend of the Evangelical history, including even external details."

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)

He's such a compend of beauties, meseems, indeed, from him The      world all beauty borrows that lives in lands and seas.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John

In a brief compend, like the present work, it is not thought necessary to notice particularly the printed editions of the Hebrew Bible.

From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)

His papers are a rare compend of literary criticism.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.

In January, 1874, he published, in the "Quarterly Journal of Science," a brief compend of the notes of his investigations during the four years preceding.

From Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various