Cook opened his compendium by quoting Horace, and the sentiments still ring true:What cannot wine perform?
His compendium is colorfully illustrated and quite exhaustive, with catastrophies ranging from the "biblically stressed" to the "universally doomed".
He then began his Compendium der Psychiatrie (1883), in which he first presented his nosology, or classification of disorders.
In his compendium of Presidential zingers, "Dear Prez, I Wanna Tell Ya!" (1996), Hope wrote, "Laughter is non-partisan".
William Cullen Bryant praised its unsophisticated virtues in "Picturesque America," his compendium of attractions published in the mid-1870's, and artists made pilgrimages to it.
Breivik insisted he only moved back in with his mother to save 15,000KR in monthly rent and spend more time writing his "compendium".
It also was the stepping-off point for Mabey's own wonderfully outlaw relationship with the British landscape, which led to more than 30 books about hedgerow and forest – quests after nightingales and eulogies for beech trees – that include his magisterial compendium Flora Britannica, and his intimate history of his own battle with depression and its remedies, Nature Cure.
And his book-length introduction to his 1959 compendium "The Zionist Idea" remains, arguably, the finest exploration of the movement's ideology in any language.
For his new book, the follow-up to his 2012 compendium, The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia, McCandless tackles the silly along with the serious: he deconstructs a sandwich, maps UK's gender pay gap, diagrams the best Simpsons episodes, reimagines the star map, and traces the evolution of human body parts, all using beautiful data. .
For some reason, his record of misogyny, in both language and acts, his running compendium of self-satisfied creepiness, the accumulated complaints against him of sexual harassment and assault (all denied, of course), have attracted only modest attention, one defamation lawsuit, and no congressional interest.
In 1904 he set up a temporary residence in Des Moines, Iowa, and dedicated himself to working in isolation on the Compendium, compiling his collection of around 10 million names and dates, for almost five intense years.
