It is as a million pounds formed by accumulated millionths of farthings; more Compendiously it arises normally from, and through, action.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
Caxton, the last writer to be considered in this connection, remarks in his preface to The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy on the "fair language of the French, which was in prose so well and Compendiously set and written," and in the prologue to the Eneydos tells how he was attracted by the "fair and honest terms and words in French," and how, after writing a leaf or two, he noted that his English was characterized by "fair and strange terms."
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Dr. Leland afterwards described him Compendiously as a sullen, vain, proud, selfish, canker-hearted, envious reptile.
"Burke"
John Morley