A hundred years ago the singular insight of Linnaeus enabled him to say that "fossils are not the children but the parents of rocks," and the whole effect of the discoveries made since his time has been to compile a larger and larger commentary upon this text.

Since thou informed me of thy intention to compile a memoir of our late dear friend John Yeardley, I have endeavored to recall the circumstances of his visit to this city in the spring of the year 1856.

You ought to compile it at oncebefore any of us has time to go away again.

In this profession he at first managed to make only a precarious living, for the most part as a hackwriter, working for periodicals and filling contracts to compile popular histories of England, Greece, Rome, and Animated Nature.

By the time he had been for ten years in London, his abilities were sufficiently well known to the leading booksellers for them to hire him to compile a Dictionary of the English Language for £1575.

In the next year he published his Deserted Village; and entered into an agreement with Davies, to compile a History of England, in four octavo volumes, for the sum of five hundred pounds in the space of two years; before the expiration of which period, he made a compact with the same bookseller for an abridgment of the Roman History, which he had before published.

To prevent the possibility of such deception, this upright magistrate undertook to compile and translate a body of Hindu and Mohammedan laws, and to form a digest of them in imitation of that of the Roman law framed by the order of the Emperor Justinian.

V. abridge, abstract, epitomize, summarize; make an abstract, prepare an abstract, draw an abstract, compile an abstract &c n.. recapitulate, review, skim, run over, sum up. abbreviate &c (shorten) 201; condense &c (compress) 195; compile &c (collect) 72.

V. abridge, abstract, epitomize, summarize; make an abstract, prepare an abstract, draw an abstract, compile an abstract &c n.. recapitulate, review, skim, run over, sum up. abbreviate &c (shorten) 201; condense &c (compress) 195; compile &c (collect) 72.

I straightway sent for Potgiesser, and found my fortune made, it was one of those patient old German treatises which cost the labor of one man's life to compile and another's to exhaust, and I had no reason to suppose that any reader had disturbed its repose until that unwearied industry had explored the library.

" Mr. Wilks obeyed, and again thanking him warmly for his invaluable services sat down to compile a few facts about his newly acquired wife, warranted to stand the severest cross-examination which might be brought to bear upon them, a task interspersed with malicious reminiscences of Mrs. Silk's attacks on his liberty.

And because it pleased Severus himself and other people very much, I then conceived a desire to compile a record of all other matters of Roman interest.

The council shall compile a proper school book to teach them learning and piety.

Good men are scarce; the just are thinly sown: They thrive but ill, nor can they last when grown; And should we count them, and our store compile, Yet Thebes more gates could show, more mouths the Nile.

For, not to compile an English grammar from others already extant, but to compose one more directly from the sources of the art, was the task which he at first proposed to himself.

'But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their Dictionary.'JOHNSON.

It would be easy to compile a book of sayings from Balzac that would make all "Maximes" and "Pensées," even those of La Rochefoucauld or Joubert, seem trivial and shallow.

Another ideaMiranda's and Victorine'squite as gladly accepted, and they two elected to carry it outwas, to compile, from everybody's letters, a history of the battery, to be sold at the bazaar.

FRANCE AND THE FRENCH, Academy takes forty years to compile their Dictionary, i. 186, 301, n. 2; sends Johnson a copy, i. 298; on the resistance of the air, v. 253; affectation of philosophy and free-thinking, iii. 388, n. 3; Americans, assistance to the, iv. 21; Ana, their, v. 311; anglomania, ii. 126; Assembly, iv.

I could wish our Royal Society would compile a Body of Natural History, the best that could be gather'd together from Books and Observations.

[Sidenote:2] For these reasons, then, I have not been able to compile an account of what follows similar to that which precedes.

With files of the New York dailies at his side, an industrious writer could compile a history of the Rebellion, complete in all its details.

These considerations induced me, in 1853, to compile and publish an edition of the text of the '[S']akoontalá' from various original MSS., with English translations of the metrical passages, and explanatory notes.

ROW, JOHN, a Scottish reformer; graduated LL.D. in Padua; came over from the Catholic Church in 1558, and two years later helped to compile the "First Book of Discipline"; settled as a minister in Perth, and was four times Moderator of the General Assembly (1525-1580).

Sometimes the writers compile too carelessly, though, and mix up facts out of geographies, and stories out of the penny papers, so as to mislead those who are desirous of information.