"Compendious" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... computation, made use of counters, or in writing of single strokes, points, or the like, each whereof was made to signify an unit, i.e., some one thing of whatever kind they had occasion to reckon. Afterwards they found out the more compendious ways of making one character stand in place of several strokes or points. And, lastly, the notation of the Arabians or Indians came into use, wherein, by the repetition of a few characters or figures, and varying the signification ...
— A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge • George Berkeley
... themselves, accompanienge Mr Gregory in lerninge, amonge whome ther is a perpetuall contention, strife, and conflicte, and in maner of an honest envie who shall do beste, not oonlie in the ffrenche tongue (wherin Mr Vallence after a wonderesly compendious, facile, prompte, and redy waye, nott withoute painfull delegence and laborious industrie doth enstructe them) but also in writynge, playenge at weapons, and all other theire exercises, so that if continuance in this bihalf may take place, whereas ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... secondarily if thou finde ought amisse/ when thou seyst thy selfe in the glasse of Gods worde/ thynke it compendious wisdome/ to amende [the] same betymes/ moneshed & warned by the ensample of other men/ rather then to tary vntill thou be ...
— The prophete Ionas with an introduccion • William Tyndale
... sick, too, if it gets rougher," she said, and she turned from him to give a rather compendious order to the ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... yet, find out a more compendious method, than by this trunk, to save my servants the labour of speech, and mine ears the ...
— Literary Remains, Vol. 2 • Coleridge
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