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II WESLEY'S ABRIDGMENT OF PURITAN LITERATURE Commendable and beneficial abridgment is a work of art ; John Wesley was a master of the medium . His methodology may be regarded as anticipating that of the modern - day digests although his ...
II WESLEY'S ABRIDGMENT OF PURITAN LITERATURE Commendable and beneficial abridgment is a work of art ; John Wesley was a master of the medium . His methodology may be regarded as anticipating that of the modern - day digests although his ...
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Methods of Abridgment Wesley's basic objectives in abridging any material were clarity of presentation , brevity within the bounds of conveying essential meaning , and readability for the common man . Omission is the primary means by ...
Methods of Abridgment Wesley's basic objectives in abridging any material were clarity of presentation , brevity within the bounds of conveying essential meaning , and readability for the common man . Omission is the primary means by ...
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Each of the foregoing methods of abridgment , when joined to the next , produces an instructive image of how Wesley edited the works of others . Nevertheless , only in abstraction is one able to separate these from the preponderate ...
Each of the foregoing methods of abridgment , when joined to the next , produces an instructive image of how Wesley edited the works of others . Nevertheless , only in abstraction is one able to separate these from the preponderate ...
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Contents
Abbreviations | 11 |
Puritan Authors in Wesleys Publications | 31 |
Wesleys Abridgment of Puritan Literature | 47 |
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