The student tried to get by with reading an abridgement of the book. From LearnThat.org.
What is it with the Americans and word abridgment?. From Wordnik.com. [So Jeanne, What's TV Like Over There?] Reference
9 A.D. We know the work from the epitomes of the books and from Justin's abridgment, which is similar to that of Florus on Livy. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
Instead of giving a faithful translation, Fabre made a kind of abridgment of it. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World] Reference
Hacket's Life of the Archbishop (abridgment), p. 190. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850] Reference
For my own part I cannot consent to any abridgment of the rights of. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
This volume is a new work, and not a mere abridgment of the author's. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
Here is given only an abridgment of the principal circumstances, from. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
I have been requested by several priests to prepare an abridgment of the. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4)] Reference
Thucydidean method of abridgment or representation in place of fact catalogues. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
If any substitute for a full translation is desired, this abridgment will serve. From Wordnik.com. [A Mother's List of Books for Children] Reference
Marinus wrote twenty volumes on anatomy, of which Galen gives an abridgment and analysis. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
Hæften's Disquisitions, and abbot Steingelt's abridgment of the same, and Ziegelbauer and. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
An abridgment, which appears to have been prepared by himself, was published after his death. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
"You mean," said he, "his short, and, I think, very accurate abridgment of Universal History.". From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
Disappointed in this, I wandered down to the brook and planned some abridgment of its meanderings. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference
Brussels: and an abridgment of it, by the author, has been largely introduced into common schools. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
But this work is not an abridgment of the three volumes of that history dealing with the Civil War. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Motassem, who wrote an abridgment of their lives in the ninth century, numbers one hundred and thirty. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference
See her life by Guerinus, a Dominican, by order of his general, in 1340: and an abridgment of the same by Ranzano. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Think of Jarrold's briskly paced, stylish abridgment as a fine introduction to Waugh's marvelously melancholy elegy. From Wordnik.com. [You Can Go Home Again] Reference
The lectures are given without the slightest abridgment, just as delivered from the platform throughout the country. From Wordnik.com. [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference
Eustathius by name, he addressed an abridgment of his first great book, the smaller work being called the "Synopsis.". From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
Vitruvius Pollio (the cognomen appears only in the abridgment of his book) served under Caesar in Africa B.C. 46; viii. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
And Napoleon, was he aught but an abridgment of the French nation, the sublimate and "proof" essence of French character?. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
Those to v., vi., and viii. are entirely wanting; for the prefaces to ii., iii., and iv. we are indebted to the abridgment. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
But to pursue brevity of speech, and to avoid nice declarations of things, is to be granted to him that maketh an abridgment. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 46: 2 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference
The company seemed perfectly satisfied with this abridgment, and Macklin shut up his lecture for that evening in great dudgeon. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
Affligem, in twelve books of monastic disquisitions, &c. Steingelt, abbot of Anhusen, gave a judicious abridgment of this work. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
The former work, which to a considerable extent is an abridgment of Grote, has been brought down, in a Boston edition, from the. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
Melmoth's "Great Importance of a Religious Life," and the abridgment of Law's "Serious Call," adopted by the Society for Promoting. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference
Moreover the experiences of the Negroes in voting had not been extensive, and a sudden curtailing and abridgment of their rights was. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
That was the reason for putting that word in there, but if it is an abridgment of the constitution, we don't want to do it, of course. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
The amount of archaeological learning -- compressed indeed but never obscured by abridgment -- scattered through these pages is immense. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Afterwards he taught English and French at Paris; he likewise published a French Grammar, and an abridgment of it in the English language. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 62, January 4, 1851] Reference
The abridgment contains the essence of this text, nearly all its illustrations, and the whole of the Temperance matter as here presented. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
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