He rightly commends Byzantium for preserving the ideals, and aesthetics, of classical antiquity at a time when Europe was subsiding into savagery.However, in this abridgment of his three-volume history, Lord Norwich appears to feel that such admiration speaks for itself.
As James Madison said, "I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations".
He appended to his laws a free translation of the Ten Commandments and an abridgment of the enactments of Exodus 21 23.
Though he claimed to have rendered several books into English, his work is more a paraphrase and abridgment than a continuous translation.
In the 1970s Goldman penned two of his most famous novels The Princess Bride (1973), a romantic adventure comedy framed as an abridgment of a fictional fairy tale written by fictional author "S.
The Medici press in Rome published an abridgment of Kitāb nuzhat al-mushtāq in 1592; a Latin translation was published under the title Geographia Nubiensis.
At the urging of Cardinal Bessarion, Peuerbach began an epitome, or abridgment, of Ptolemy's Almagest in 1460.
C. 201 - c. 300 Justin, in full Marcus Junianus Justinus (flourished 3rd century ad), Roman historian who was the author of Epitome, an abridgment of the Historiae Philippicae et totius mundi origines et terrae situs (Philippic Histories) by Pompeius Trogus, whose work is lost.
The papal legate to the Holy Roman Empire, Cardinal Bessarion, during a diplomatic visit to Vienna (1460 61), asked Peuerbach to write an epitome, or abridgment, of Ptolemy's Almagest to remedy the problems in George of Trebizond's 1450 translation of and commentary on that great work.
A popular abridgment in seven volumes was published in 1867.
Al-Masʿūdī followed it with Kitāb al-awsaṭ ("Book of the Middle"), variously described as a supplement to or an abridgment of the Akhbār al-zamān.
