compend
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An admirable compend, and the best condensation we have seen.”
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
His papers are a rare compend of literary criticism.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton
Given to Wm Sim for copieng to me the compend of the Statutes of Edenbrugh being.
From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Lord John Lauder Fountainhall
More accurately he might have said that it is a compend of all Hindu literatures, the traditional as well as the inspired, and with a much larger share of the former than of the latter.
From Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. Ellinwood
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 John Payne
