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.

His "Spiritual Exercises" has ever remained the great text-book of the Jesuits,a compend of fasts and penances, of visions and of ecstasies; rivalling Saint Theresa herself in the rhapsodies of a visionary piety, showing the chivalric and romantic ardor of a Spanish nobleman directed into the channel of devotion to an invisible Lord.

Compendium N. compend, compendium; abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo [Lat.], analysis, pandect^, digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note; excerpt; synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus.

Among the smaller compends Schwegler's (1848; recent editions revised and supplemented by R. Koeber) remains still the least bad [English translations by Seelye and Smith, revised edition with additions, New York, 1880; and J.H. Stirling, with annotations, 7th ed., 1879.TR.].

Ten commandments constitute the brief compend of human duty.

Ten commandments constitute the brief compend of human duty.

Ten commandments constitute the brief compend of human duty.

Ten commandments constitute the brief compend of human duty.

So that they who are at all acquainted with the origin and character of the various compends thus introduced into our schools, cannot but desire to see them all displaced by some abler and better work, more honourable to its author and more useful to the public, more intelligible to students and more helpful to teachers.

The first edition of the "Institutes of English Grammar," the doctrinal parts of which are embraced in the present more copious work, was published in the year 1823; since which time, (within the space of twelve years,) about forty new compends, mostly professing to be abstracts of Murray, with improvements, have been added to our list of English grammars.

For example, the following definition from Murray's grammar, is found in perhaps a dozen other compends, all professing to teach the art of speaking and writing with propriety: "Number is the consideration of an object, as one or more."

Nor have the ablest authors always produced the best compends for the literary instruction of youth.

"Which, with Hubner's Compend, and Wells' Geographia Classica, will be sufficient.

"Kirkham's Gram., the Compend, or Table.

"Which, with Hubner's Compend, and Well's Geographia Classica, will be sufficient."Burgh cor.

See this passage in "The Economy of Human Life," p. 105a work feigned to be a compend of Chinese maxims, but now generally understood to have been written or compiled by Robert Dodsley, an eminent and ingenious bookseller in London.

[of North Carolina], are insurrectionary and hostile to the domestic peace and tranquillity of the country, and that no member of this House who has indorsed and recommended it, or the compend from it, is fit to be Speaker of this House.

A compend of the Institutes of the Christian religion.

A compend of the Institutes of the Christian religion.

Bloodless surgery compend; abdominal technic notes, 1942-1943.

Bloodless surgery compend.

A compend of the Institutes of the Christian religion.

A compend of the Institutes of the Christian religion.

Bloodless surgery compend; abdominal technic notes, 1942-1943.

The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship steered by compass and chart, longitude reckoned by lunar observation, and, when the heavens are hid, by chronometer; driven by steam; and in wildest sea-mountains, at vast distances from home, "The pulses of her iron heart Go beating through the storm.