compend

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Instead of an unsatisfactory compend, especially of subjects concerning which there are great differences of opinion, and considerable warmth of feeling, useful tables of important events are furnished in the Appendix.

From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by Lord, John

Well, then, prayer is, as it were, a compend and sum of all duties; it contains in it, faith, love, repentance; all these should breathe out in prayer.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Now we shall speak a word of these two cardinal graces which are the compend of all graces,—as the objects of them are the abridgment of the Scriptures,—faith and love.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

I shall write only whereof I know—not by any means a compend of Creole cookery.

From Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by McCulloch-Williams, Martha

His papers are a rare compend of literary criticism.

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