Mr. Pope abridges some of them, and others he omits; but neither of these liberties was compatible with the nature of my undertaking."
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Yet it does not follow that a new enactment which for a while abridges or suspends that freedom of action or speech is inconsistent with those constitutional principles.
"The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860"
Charles Duke Yonge
On the whole, my lord, if political society, in whatever form, has still made the many the property of the few; if it has introduced labors unnecessary, vices and diseases unknown, and pleasures incompatible with nature; if in all countries it abridges the lives of millions, and renders those of millions more utterly abject and miserable, shall we still worship so destructive an idol, and daily sacrifice to it our health, our liberty, and our peace?
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke