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He was able, quite beyond the powers of any man of my acquaintance, to put compendiously into words the secrets of successful editing. It was capital training just to hear him talk. 'Never save a feature, he used to say. 'Always work for the next number. Forget the others. Spend everything just on that. And to those who know, there is divination in the principle.
Consistent with his primary law of being, Spinoza defines virtue not in terms of negations, inhibitions, deficiencies or restraints; virtue he defines in terms of positive human qualities compendiously called human power.
The argument of the "Essay on the Miracles recorded in the Ecclesiastical History of the Early Ages" by the present Roman Cardinal, but then Anglican Doctor, John Henry Newman, is compendiously stated by himself in the following passage:
The third man was shorter and broader, and wore a newer hunting shirt than his fellows and a broad belt of wool and leather. This last stretched his moccasins to the blaze and sent thin rings of smoke from his lips into the steam made by the falling rain. He bitterly and compendiously cursed the weather. The little party had some reason for ill-temper.
The evening went by cheerfully till after tea, Dorothea talking more than usual and dilating with Mr. Farebrother on the possible histories of creatures that converse compendiously with their antennae, and for aught we know may hold reformed parliaments; when suddenly some inarticulate little sounds were heard which called everybody's attention. "Henrietta Noble," said Mrs.
In so far as my study of what specially characterises the Positive Philosophy has led me, I find therein little or nothing of any scientific value, and a great deal which is as thoroughly antagonistic to the very essence of science as anything in ultramontane Catholicism. In fact, M. Comte's philosophy in practice might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus Christianity.
The full title of this treatise is, in translation, as follows: "Didactics at Large: propounding a universal Scheme for teaching all Things to all persons; or a Certain and Perfect Mode of erecting such Schools through all the communities, towns, and villages of any Christian Kingdom, as that all the youth of both sexes, without the neglect of a single one, may be compendiously, pleasantly, and solidly educated in Learning, grounded in Morals, imbued with Piety, and so, before the years of puberty, instructed in all things belonging to the present and the future life."
Sylvia did not go to the wedding, although an invitation had come, addressed economically and compendiously to "Professor and Mrs. Marshall and family."
This looks like the immature germ of a state or commonwealth, and of an order of rights superior to the claims of family relation. 'If I were attempting for the more special purposes of the jurist to express compendiously the characteristics, of the situation in which mankind disclose themselves at the dawn of their history, I should be satisfied to quote a few verses from the "Odyssee" of Homer:
He spoke with a touch of the drawl which is currently supposed to belong only to the half-educated classes of England. She turned to the boy who sat on the other side of her. The young gentleman his name was Arthur and, apparently, nothing else was only too ready to talk. He proceeded to explain, compendiously, his doings of the past week, to which the girl listened politely.
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