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Diderot’s earliest writings were of as little importance as Goldsmith’s Enquiry into the State of Polite Learning or Burke’s Abridgement of English History.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

H., “An Abridgement of the Christian Doctrine,” p.

From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon

Abridgement, arrangement, forematter and stage directions by Mrs. Henry Jewett. © on abridged & arr. version of the old play, forematter & stage directions; 29Feb28; A1069797.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1955 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

It is long since the Abridgement confirmed and strengthened it, out of those places of Scripture: Eph. v.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George

Note this Abridgement of Dubbling the Cube. &c.

From The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara by Dee, John