How To Use Abridge In A Sentence

John Wesley edited an abridged edition and used it widely to support his sermons.
She also subscribes to the talking book service run by the Royal National Institute of the Blind, where she can get complete, unabridged novels on audio tape.
It used to be that an unabridged dictionary and an encyclopedia would be kept accessible in middle-class homes, for settling questions of language or fact.
Again, the unabridged dictionary gives "sinewy" as its first definition of "nervous. The Human Brain
It is true that Herbert Butterfield remarked that the trick of writing history lay in ‘the art of abridgement’, but abridgement must be both sensible and defensible.

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Critics of Belgian policy contend that the right to enter is abridged in a number of instances. Refugees in the Age of Total War
In 1853, she published an abridgement and translation of Comte's Cours, which made it accessible to a widespread audience for the first time.
Domestically, September 11 has sparked debate about the permissible extent of civil rights abridgements in times of national peril.
This is the last week of classes so I am ending with a bang, or rather a "splat" - the class concludes with a great egg toss (one student today managed to successfully catch a raw egg with her face, much to the enjoyment of her peers) and a brief letter (abridged below) I wrote to all my students, concerning what I have learned in China this past year: Chengdu TOT (Training Of Trainees)
The problem is not that he has abridged the Bible - the very creation of Scripture required the editorial judgment of its redactors - but that he has attenuated it.
My necessarily abridged synopsis of the play does a complicated and layered work little justice, so you'll have to just take my word that this is a masterful production that has it all.
Mortimer also discovered symptoms of lush-logic, for though he had an inclination to keep up the chaff, his dictionary appeared to be new modelled, and his lingo abridged by repeated clips at his mother tongue, by which he afforded considerable food for laughter. Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
Of innumerable biographies of Luther the best from sympathetic Protestant pens are: Julius Köstlin, _Life of Luther, _ trans. and abridged from the German (1900); T.M. Lindsay, _Luther and the German Reformation_ (1900); A.C. M.Giffert, _M.rtin Luther, the A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
Sherburn's estimation of the capacities of youth was generous in comparison; this more aggressive abridger turned the nineteen volumes of Richardson's three novels into a 232-page duodecimo.
The manuscript so abridged, is submitted to you, with the earnest prayer, that if published, it may subserve the cause of truth and good citizenship. The Conflict of Truth
So, for Tim's peace of mind and history's record, here's the Diarist's excerpt in its unabridged entirety.
Wonderfully constructed narratives, such as the patriarchal stories of Genesis, are reduced and abridged as to make many of them incomprehensible.
He therefore was commissioned to abridge and write a preface to a now obscure work of mental philosophy, The Light of Nature Pursued by Abraham Tucker (originally published in seven volumes from 1768 to 1777), which appeared in 1807 and may have had some influence on his own later thinking. William hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Every word of these texts is tagged, lemmatized, and hypertext-linked to the Liddell-Scott (an abridged version), Louw-Nida, Friberg, Thayer, or Barclay-Newman lexicons.
To make things worse, commercially available audio books are usually abridged and twice as expensive as the print version.
The expressive notation facilitates abridgement in order to specify broader categories.
They are derived loosely from the Christian just war tradition and more recently adapted in the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine R2P, which abridges state sovereignty and the inviolability of borders in favor of protecting populations from barbarous governments. Monica Duffy Toft: Does The U.S. Have A Responsibility To Protect The Libyan People?
I've only read the abridged edition/version of her novel.
The first Collegiate was compiled to be used by college students, taking its place in a series of abridgements intended to serve students from primary to university level.
I have the right to free speech, for example, and you can ask me to apologize for anything I say that offends you, and that request would have no bearing on whether my freedom of speech was being abridged.
Even when the permanent Victoria Theatre opened at Sydney in 1838, its operatic productions were at first brutally abridged, translated, and arranged with music more easily at hand.
I have to admit that my heart sank when we learnt that the Marionettentheater's version of Mozart's Magic Flute was complete, unabridged, entirely in German and would last 21/2 hours - but we needn't have worried.
Work on abridgement of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's masterpiece Tarjumanul Quran is going to be started soon.
_janua foris, _ that is, a Januan door, and the phrase might in time be abridged into _janua, _ the noun _foris_ being understood but not expressed. The Golden Bough
A political ideology, then, should be viewed as an abridgement of a particular tradition.
It was abridged from the original work.
Flo Gibson records only the classics - and only the entire book, never an abridgement.
You can also try reading the whole unabridged book here, but I bet you don't make it even a quarter of the way to the end of the first chapter.
First, as mentioned earlier, the portions of the Lexicon that encapsulate plot elements or sketch plotlines bear no comparison with the guidebook in Twin Peaks, whose plot summaries giving "elaborate recounting of plot details" were found to constitute an "abridgement" of the original work. Unalog
As a rule of thumb, most unabridged books will require at least eight cassettes at minimum, with very long ones like Peter the Great taking up to forty or more.
We muft beg leave to abridge confix derably 'his pompous account of a putrefying animal fubftince* which is diffufed through four pages. The Monthly Review
Unlike the Pappenheim version, the 1913 printing had a fine introduction, notes and index, albeit abridged and reworked under the editorship of Alfred Feilchenfeld.
Four plastic cassettes I assumed were the unabridged Eileen. LEGAL TENDER
I tend not to be a fan of abridged work, unless the abridgment was done by the author.
Although that language by its literal terms forbade Congress from legislating to abridge free expression, the guarantees were understood to bind the whole government, and to limit what the President could ask a court to do. David Souter Harvard Speech: Former Supreme Court Justice Talks Judicial Philosophy (VIDEO, FULL TEXT)
In addition to the full edition, there exist abridged and medium editions of the scheme.
Indeed, a sense of hasty abridgement endures throughout the first half: incident follows incident in a breezy sequence at odds with the novel's steady accretion of narrative.
A Book publisher may alter or abridge a work with the permission of the copyright owner.
This article is an abridgement of the final chapter.
The Scherzo capriccioso, abridged in this recording in order to fit on two 78 rpm sides, was recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1930.
The reteller of these stories needs in addition to plead guilty of having abridged the tales with a free hand. Chivalry
That's right: The minds behind "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)," "The Complete History of America (Abridged)" and other loopily condensed works have now concocted "Completely Hollywood (Abridged)," a movie-theme spoof that, one evening this week, sent a Kennedy Center audience into regular peals of near-hysterical laughter. Celia Wren reviews 'Completely Hollywood (Abridged)' at Kennedy Center
The present book is an abridgement of Congar's massive two-volume work on tradition, and is highly recommended for both personal study and classroom use.
I'm not advocating any abridgement of free speech here; just pointing out that such speech has consequences.
Over time, that insignificant value becomes significant," said Connors, who rattled through an abridged list of Khannouchi's ailments—patellofemoral syndrome, ankle impingement, bone spurs and something called hallux rigidus, which is degenerative arthritis in the big toe. The Achy Return of a Running Icon
The message in the newspaper is unabridged.
In this eight-disc set, an abridgement of the book of the same name and the first of three volumes, Simon Schama retells the creation of modern Britain.
Among the gladdest tidings of the season: the re-appearance of two classics by E.B. White, recorded unabridged, decades ago. The New Oral Tradition
An abridgement of Bloomfield's letter, together with extracts from Letter 241
This reprint is the original, unabridged text.
I'm still unclear as to how this doesn't violate the First Amendment, as it is clearly a case of Congress making a law that abridges the freedom of speech, and of the press. When they throw me in prison... (Jack Bog's Blog)
No state could abridge those privileges or immunities, or deny any person due process or the equal protection of the law.
I haTe abeady abridged die fourteen causes of disinherison in tfaatnovel, hm diey are alsobrieflf comprized in the foUowi«g TevMS. The Institutes of Justinian
An abridged algorithm of 2 D hidden Markov chain model and its parameter estimation method are made.
Gerard Ithier, seventh prior, and his abridger, fell into several anachronisms and mistakes, which are to be corrected by the remarks of Dom Martenne, who has given us a new and accurate edition of this life, and other pieces relating to it, Ver. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
Although this war record of a Free French pilot in the RAF was first published in 1951, this is the first complete and unabridged edition and is based on M. Clostermann's wartime diary.
Therefore he decides that although the First Amendment forbids Congress to abridge political speech, that proscription is somehow superseded by Congress's right to, in Breyer's words, "inhibit" some "speech opportunities" in the name of fine-tuning "a democratic conversation. Mr. Breyer's 'Modesty'
Read the original and you will find in almost every case it outclasses its big-screen abridgement. Times, Sunday Times
Among these were a commentary and a “questionary” on Aristotle's Physics; the latter, appearing in its first complete edition in 1551, was a much simplified and abridged version of the type of physics text that was used at Paris in the first decades of the sixteenth cen - tury. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Chapter 62 consists of a single word, "hapless" - the only word Orion's abridger cut from the chapter, trimming a 105-word sentence to 104; the book's first sentence is "methodically"; the final hunt for the white whale dissolves into pure punctuation. Brit Lit Blogs
The first Collegiate was compiled to be used by college students, taking its place in a series of abridgements intended to serve students from primary to university level.
In the second sense, ‘discrimination’ means the wrongful denial or abridgement of the civil rights of some persons in a context where others enjoy their full set of rights.
But the word humongous was coined during my lifetime, and Random House Unabridged gives the times of first usage as 1965-70. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
It was abridged from to original work.
So if you have a treaty professing to require the recognition of freedom of expression, and the legislature abridges this by, say, banning denial of the holocaust, the court is bound to apply the law, rather than resolve these issues for the benefit of people wondering what future courts will do. The Volokh Conspiracy » Canadian University Restricting Graphic Posters That Compare Abortion to Genocide
The laws which excuse, on any occasions, the ignorance of their subjects, confess their own imperfections: the civil jurisprudence, as it was abridged by Justinian, still continued a mysterious science, and a profitable trade, and the innate perplexity of the study was involved in tenfold darkness by the private industry of the practitioners. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The abridged edition is widely used in smaller general libraries, specifically school libraries and small public libraries.
This is an abridged version of her new novel "The Queen and I".
Bill Czolgosz alters, edits, expurgates, massacres and abridges the original Twain narrative with gusto; and delivers up a whimsyladen trek through the rotting heart of the Zombie Apocalypse. The War of The Worlds
If I recall correctly this is actually an abridgement or condensation of a longer, more academically-oriented book.
Looks like lots of the stuff they have is abridged from the longer articles in the print versions (like this Bob Moog piece) but still, they're certainly worth a look. Sunday Afternoon Stuff
It was abridged from the original work.
John Wesley edited an abridged edition and used it widely to support his sermons.
To abridge a little: I worried myself into a pretty state by the autumn. TESTIMONIES
Perhaps the best-known argument for this view is found the unabridged edition of an otherwise excellent book, The Sovereignty of God, by A. W. Pink.
The original six hour series had been abridged into two hours and you could feel that the pacing was rushed (something that was somehow avoided in the 1955 remake).
Extensive repository supplements have turned the online journal into the complete version of AJRCCM, and the paper copy is simply an abridgement.
Macmillan's series of Agatha Christie audio CDs, with their elegant black-and-white cover designs, features pacey abridgements of the prolific writer's rather uninspiring prose.
To abridge a little: I worried myself into a pretty state by the autumn. TESTIMONIES
Unfortunately he did not live long enough to marvel with me at the word "floccinaucinihilipilification" (29 letters), which I discovered by chance in my unabridged dictionary last year. The Union - All Categories
Article 33 Book publishers may modify or abridge works with the license of authors.
If you want to hear what that sort of accent sounds like, you can listen to the HarperCollins complete and unabridged version of Coraline on audio.
The present book is an abridgement of Congar's massive two-volume work on tradition, and is highly recommended for both personal study and classroom use.
This article is a substantial abridgement of a chapter from the author's book Has science got rid of God?
See my poor dexter, abridged to one thumb, one finger, and a stump, -- by the blow of my adversary's weapon, however, and not by any carnificial knife. The Fortunes of Nigel
Such freedoms can be abridged only if the state shows it has a compelling need to do so.
Some, in the true spirit of the poor Publican, were kneeling at a considerable distance, just within view of the cross, to which they hardly lifted their eyes; others, whose penance was originally lighter, or its term abridged by frequent visits to this place, had approached the cross more nearly, and with greater signs of satisfaction. Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819
No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision in a manner which results in a denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color .... Wonk Room » Anti-Sotomayor Fearmongering Campaign Opens New Front: Felons And The Vote
Seven of the thirteen case studies are included in the abridged version.
It is intrusive and abridges the rights of legal citizen to equal protection under the law - unless there's some magic way to tell a legal from an illegal immigrant on sight. 3 border state governors critical of Arizona immigration law
Gaiman is a fantastic reader and I recommend you rush right out and get the unabridged audiobook of Coraline.
_The reteller of these stories needs in addition to plead guilty of having abridged the tales with a free hand. Chivalry
the new law might abridge our freedom of expression
In addition to the full edition, there exist abridged and medium editions of the scheme.
Heaven and our Lady assoilzie him of his sins, and abridge the penance of his mortal infirmities! — The Abbot
Most of the original treatises have perished; two thousand of these, containing three million unpunctuated and unspaced lines, were abridged to one hundred and fifty thousand lines or sentences. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
If this be true, *wink, wink, nudge, nudge* then I most certainly expect the unabridged UK audio version to follow read by John Cleese. OMW in the UK « Whatever
He shows the hand of a skilled theatrical abridger at work, surgically excising flowery and purple "literary" material, and reworking the remainder for the benefit of players and playgoers.
Various abridgements were made of it in the early middle ages, the most widely disseminated of which was the so-called Breviary of Alaric or Lex Romana Visigothorum.
So I think we have an obligation to make sure that her rights are not in any way abridged.
This article is an abridgement of the final chapter.
One could argue that such restrictions "abridge" the freedom of the press, but that argument would be specious. Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher
An unabridged dictionary defines ‘mentum’ as a chin-like projection on some orchids or part of the median plate of an insect.
The irony is that a weakened department, based in Edinburgh, will lose its core programme on the national station: it will go on making drama and book abridgements for the network, but not for Radio Scotland.
Any state that abridges the right of a law-abiding citizen to vote is in violation of Section 1. The Volokh Conspiracy » California’s Woes and Prop 13
Constitution that Congress can't begin to 'abridge' it, in its pride of place, is hawked at by this crested jay-bird. Old Portraits, Part 1, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches
About times we accession that by description the arrangement can in some cases could could could could cause complete arrangement aborticide or acutely abridge the accusation adaptation of the battery. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
Nonetheless it's listed in many unabridged dictionaries.
Th [e] concept [of selective incorporation] is important to understand in regards to the Second Amendment, and I'll explain it briefly: the Fourteenth Amendment says that "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States. Uncategorized Blog Posts
True achromatism cannot be obtained with ordinary flint and crown-glass; and although in lenses of "Jena glass," outstanding colour is reduced to about one-sixth its usual amount, their term of service is fatally abridged by rapid deterioration. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
The book is an abridged account of his experiences in India before Independence.
The abridged edition is widely used in smaller general libraries, specifically school libraries and small public libraries.
To abridge a little: I worried myself into a pretty state by the autumn. TESTIMONIES
Medieval culture reveled in derivative works of every kind: translations, adaptations, abridgements, elaborations, collections, and florilegia. The Venerable Heritage of Free Culture
To finish this post I will leave you with an excerpt and a nonsense poem from his introduction to Burgess Unabridged, which is available online in scanned and text versions: April « 2009 « Sentence first
An abridgement of the Carolingian capitularies of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious by Ansegisus, possibly acting in an official capacity, was made in the 820s.
There are none of the shortcuts of the forties and fifties, though one sees the font of what survives, in abridged form in many later projects of that period. St. Robert's, Shorewood, Wisconsin
Other times they shorten what has to be read through abridgement and synthesis.
This article is a substantial abridgement of a chapter from the author's book Has science got rid of God?
When I was a kid, I used to enjoy doing something very much like this by following cross-references in the unabridged dictionary at the library.
Beginners are encouraged to read abridgement of David Copperfield because the original is too difficult.
I don't think most of these books are available in abridged audio books format. What Obama's reading on the Vineyard
This article is an abridged version of his Inaugural Lecture, given at the University on 2 March.
It's so hard to tell though: I read an abridged version at seven, was enrapt by the television series at eight, read the full version at sixteen, reread it at twenty one.
Flo Gibson records only the classics - and only the entire book, never an abridgement.
These lines form a kind of abridgement or _précis_ of the whole Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
I see "abridgement" on a book, I think, well I'm not getting the real deal. Archive 2005-12-01
The right to seek redress of wrongs in court is precious and should not be restricted or abridged, based on myths.
Book publisher may alter or abridge a work with the permission of the copyright owner.
Have you read the unabridged edition of that book?
It was abridged from the original work.
With respect to the etymology of the word cannibal, it seems to me entirely cleared up by the discovery of the journal kept by Columbus during his first voyage of discovery, and of which Bartholomew de las Casas has left us an abridged copy. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
I've only read the abridged edition/version of her novel.
An interesting book, Sybil, but Disraeli was not much of a novelist; it reads like spirited and somewhat artless version of Brontë's Shirley, or an abridged and more explicitly class-based Wives and Daughters.
A rough guide: modern unabridged dictionaries are usually the size of quartos; most textbooks are octavos; popular paperbacks are often duodecimos.
Ampersand, the name by which we know & today, is a corrupt abridgement of the phrase, and first appeared in dictionaries in 1837. The curious land of the ampersand
You'll find it in Karrada - whether it's a gold bracelet or fuzzy slippers or the complete, unabridged collection of the late Al-Hakeem's religious lectures on CD.
535 Here some abridgement is necessary, for we have another recital of what has been told more than once. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Rachmaninov, who put up with truncations to most of his works, absolutely refused to shorten the concerto and played it complete and unabridged in a state of tangible tension.
The BBC say that this will be done ‘with our usual sensitivity’ by ‘highly experienced abridgers’.
It's definitely not abridged in any way, shape or form.
Our bar has been lowered way too far allowing laws to abridge individual freedoms in exchange for a nanny state. Duh pookie
[107-2] A remark by the abridger who noted the inconsistency between a total of 48 miles for a day and night and even an occasional 15 miles per hour. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503
Hist.] 83 This interesting story, which Zosimus has abridged, is related by Eunapius, (in Excerpt. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The sources, however, have disappeared in the severe abridgement which has reduced the lexicon to a glossary, copious though that remains.
Not even Balzac was too great for abridgement, carped the critics.
The list ran the gamut from Aristotle to Zen, from The Catcher in the Rye to The Cat in the Hat, from epic novels to unabridged dictionaries.
The book also comes in concise and pocket editions, which are shorter but newer; i.e., they are not just abridged editions. In praise of a reference book: MWDEU
If Polanski's Twist can be faulted for anything, it's perhaps in presenting a version of the novel that feels ever so slightly abridged.
This story must be abridged.
Stephen Wilson's impressive tome that weighs in at 1024 pages invokes immediate parallels to other information sources in book form, such as the Yellow Pages or any unabridged dictionary.
In the second sense, ‘discrimination’ means the wrongful denial or abridgement of the civil rights of some persons in a context where others enjoy their full set of rights.
Here's the abridged version of the defensive breakdowns that occured in the second half, according to Bennett: miscommunication, transition miscues, not blocking out, giving up straight-line drives to the basket, letting an opponent post up too easily. Wake Forest 76, Virginia 71: Three up, three down
A door thus guarded might be known as a janua foris, that is, a Januan door, and the phrase might in time be abridged into janua, the noun foris being understood but not expressed. Chapter 16. Dianus and Diana
Just to get everyone up to speed on the history of the now famous case, here is the abridged version of their tale: In 1958, Virginia residents Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving yes, that was his real name fanned the fire by getting married in the District of Columbia and then returned to live ever after in their home state. Buzzine » Love and Legislation
Franklin alleges prison guards abridged his “right to be supplied” with T-shirts. Funny stuff
The evidence clearly shows that the city's police powers are not abridged in any manner and that the agreement is expressly subject to the remedies available to the city under the Omaha Municipal Code.
Same goes for professional works by Muslim authors and publishers, in books I've seen such as Caesarean Moon Births by Hamza Yusuf or the newest print of Towards Understanding the Qur'ān, the abridged version of Tahfim al-Qur'ān by Sayyid Abul A'lā Mawdūdi (how do you like THAT for romanization!) MuslimMatters.org
He has the full-length book, various abridged versions of the book, the video, the CD, the CD-ROM and the DVD.
No state could abridge those privileges or immunities, or deny any person due process or the equal protection of the law.
To abridge a little: I worried myself into a pretty state by the autumn. TESTIMONIES
These are so essential to our nature as a species that no legitimate government has the right to abridge them, or even presume to grant them.
It's an abridged edition of the original one.
It was so tightly written that it needed little abridgement. Times, Sunday Times
In addition to the full edition, there exist abridged and medium editions of the scheme.
Article 33 Book publishers may modify or abridge works with the license of authors.
Despite its abridgement, the film still packs a punch. Times, Sunday Times
We could transmit it by a set of abridged accounts, with a full set of accounts available on the website.
This is a further abridged version.
Because some of these emails are so long I have abridged several but provided a link to the full email.
Critics of Belgian policy contend that the right to enter is abridged in a number of instances. Refugees in the Age of Total War
By the way, the author abridged the above - mentioned story.
If Van Dale, the author of the “History of Oracles,” and his abridger, Fontenelle, had lived in the time of the Greeks and of the Roman republic, it might have been said with reason that they were rather good philosophers than good pagans; but, to speak sincerely, what injury do they do to Christianity by showing that the pagan priests were a set of knaves? A Philosophical Dictionary
In fact, the FIRST AMENDMENT does restrain Congress from enactment of ANY law that 'abridges' the exercise of free speech, freedom of the press ... etc Edwards: I Would Have Voted Against Resolution Condemning MoveOn
If I recall correctly this is actually an abridgement or condensation of a longer, more academically-oriented book.
As a historian he takes a low rank; as an abridger he is better, but best of all as a rhetorical anecdotist and painter of character in action. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
A Book publisher may alter or abridge a work with the permission of the copyright owner.
Flash makes abridge betweenthe desire to read and the lack of time to do so. How to Write Engaging Work in a Land of Rules
Michael produced an abridgement of Manning Clark's A History of Australia, published by Melbourne University Press and Penguin.
She has been asked to abridge the novel for radio.
Domestically, September 11 has sparked debate about the permissible extent of civil rights abridgements in times of national peril.
Fisher's guide to a healthy life sold 400,000 copies in 21 editions in his lifetime, far more than any of his other books, while insurance companies distributed 12 to 15 million copies of an abridgement.
Macmillan's series of Agatha Christie audio CDs, with their elegant black-and-white cover designs, features pacey abridgements of the prolific writer's rather uninspiring prose.
Dane had written a most successful lawbook, A General Abridgement and Digest of American Law. A History of American Law
Perhaps the best-known argument for this view is found the unabridged edition of an otherwise excellent book, The Sovereignty of God, by A.
Abridgement has meant a loss of detail, but has made the book work better for a modern audience. Times, Sunday Times
This is an abridged version of her new novel "The Queen and I".
I shall annex a statement of the proceedings of the M.ssion at Avignon, during the Lent of 1819, copied and abridged from a short pamphlet, written by a M. Fransoy, a lawyer of that city; which being published by Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819
Johnson and Patterson, both English professors, edited a new unabridged edition of Rural Hours and some of Cooper's other writings as well as Essays on Nature and Landscape.
In 1853, she published an abridgement and translation of Comte's Cours, which made it accessible to a widespread audience for the first time.
an abridged version
From pride, ignorance, or fashion, our foes are almost as many as our readers; and while the abilities of the nine-hundred-and-ninety-ninth abridger of the history of England are eulogised by a thousand pens, there seems a general agreement to slight the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them. ' Some Private Views
The abridged edition was published in 1988.
The original manuscript for this biography was three times as long as the present work; abridgement necessitated brutal condensation.
Then begin men to aspire to the second prizes; to be a profound interpreter and commenter, to be a sharp champion and defender, to be a methodical compounder and abridger. Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature

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