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The editor has abbreviated it by capricious omissions.

From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Brailsford, Henry Noel

Critics quietly assume, because there is a difference, that Epiphanius has abbreviated, but that is by no means sure.

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard