He dedicated a collection of seventy books to Julian, his first patron, and edited, at a later period, an abridgment of this work for the benefit of his son.
Johnson was the publisher whom we have already seen considering Hazlitt's abridgment of the Light of Nature Revealed.
Hazlitt's business was finding a publisher for his abridgment of Search (see page 340).
Wynne's well-known abridgment helped to make the book known in Oxford, and his friend William Molyneux introduced it in Dublin.
Cooper, in his "Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar," p.
Cooper, in his pretended "Abridgment of Murray's Grammar, Philad.
This conception of suicide as an euthanasia, an abridgment of the pangs of disease, and a guarantee against the dotage of age, was not confined to philosophical treatises.
Cantemir partly draws his materials from the Synopsis of Saadi Effendi of Larissa, dedicated in the year 1696 to Sultan Mustapha, and a valuable abridgment of the original historians.
An abridgment taken from the Book of Ether also; which is a record of the people of Jared; who were scattered at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people when they were building a tower to get to Heaven.
The abridgment of Xiphilin, though less particular, is in this place clearer than the original.
The principal minister of the court of Ravenna, the learned Cassiodorus, gratified the inclination of the conquerors in a Gothic history, which consisted of twelve books, now reduced to the imperfect abridgment of Jornandes.
See the Abridgmentof the Doctrine of the Ancient Persians, by Anquetil, c.
Considerable part of his very perplexedabridgment was taken from the regulations of Trajan and Hadrian; and the legion, as he describes it, cannot suit any other age of the Roman empire.
His comments on the Sentences contain a methodical course of philosophy, as his Summa contains an abridgment of divinity.
Whoever looks into the Abridgment above mentioned, will find that the Character of Æneas is filled with Piety to the Gods, and a superstitious Observation of Prodigies, Oracles, and Predictions.
The Reader may find an Abridgment of the whole Story as collected out of the ancient Historians, and as it was received among the Romans, in Dionysius Halicarnasseus [1].
Is it not true that you can, in an hour's time, read the abridgment of the Persian history, written by Zoroaster?
But unluckily there was another animalcule in a square cap, who, taking the word from all his philosophical brethren, affirmed that he knew the whole secret, which was contained in the abridgment of St. Thomas.
The reference here is to the metrical abridgment of the Iliad by Silius Italicus.
The reference is of course to the Latin translations of Homer, the Odyssey of Livius Andronicus and the abridgment of the Iliad mentioned just below, p.
Of the history he afterwards published an abridgment in English.
The abridgment is even preferable to the original, which is tediously prolix in style.
The Divine Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Being an Abridgment of the Mystical City of God.
For the Yemassees, Father Francis de Pareja, a native of Mexico, drew up in their language his abridgment of Christian doctrine, the first work in any of our Indian languages that was ever issued from the press.
One who sums up; one who forms an abridgment or summary.
A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.
You see that this is a very short abridgment of the other intended matches.
Such is, gentlemen, the abridgment of the account rendered to General Washington; and it will serve as the basis for his preparations, as well as a rule for the future elucidations you may receive.
With some abridgment we transfer to the International an account of a recent visit to Chatsworth, by Mrs. S.
There is added, by way of Appendix, anAbridgment of the Roman History.
An abridgment of the most interesting accounts will be found in the Appendix at the end of this volume.
See the first of the Appendix, in which is an abridgment of the pilgrimage of St. Jerome and St. Eusebius of Cremona.
A previous edition of Arculf had been published in a small quarto volume, Ingoldstadt, 1619, which also contained theabridgment by Bede.
He wrote poetical Epistles to Allan Ramsay, and an abridgment in modern Scotch of Blind Harry's Life of Sir William Wallace.
