Waldeck-Rousseau had originally planned a bill dealing with authorization and incorporation of associations in general, in which he refrained from any specific allusion to religious bodies of monks and nuns, thereby assimilating them with other groups.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
As in the case of the romance proper, such chronicles were, even in the modern sense, "translated," for though the historian usually compiled his material from more than one source, his method was to put together long, consecutive passages from various authors, with little attempt at assimilating them into a whole.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Not that he swallowed any Eastern religion whole, or failed, while assimilating what he took, to transform it with his own essence.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth