Sentence examples for of abridgement from inspiring English sources

With "Sun" Mr. Collins and company are following a more conventional formula of abridgement.

But like much incidental music, the evening as an aggregate suffered from a sense of abridgement, passing quickly and offering small tastes of things you would have liked to hear more of.

Letters of his calling for abridgement of colonial rights were published in 1773, further intensifying dislike of him in the colony.

Jefferson Bible, original title The Philosophy of Jesus, abridgement of the New Testament compiled by Thomas Jefferson (1743 1826), who rearranged the text of the Gospels into an account of the life and ministry of Jesus that eschews mention of any supernatural or miraculous elements.

Gyles v Wilcox (1740) 26 ER 489 was a decision of the Court of Chancery of England that established the doctrine of fair abridgement, which would later evolve into the concept of fair use.

His views on psychology were formed mainly by acquaintance with paraphrases made of De anima, the Theology of Aristotle (An abridgement of Plotinus' Enneads) and the Book on the Pure Good (an abridgement of Proclus' Elements of Theology, known in Latin as Liber De Causis).

The case established the doctrine of fair abridgement, which allowed that abridgements displaying a fair amount of labour on the part of the editor, and that differed from the original published work in a significant way, could not be piracy.

Because of the abridgement, you have to listen carefully, but it's worth it for le Carré's narration.

Most of the abridgement is not so much a summary as passages quoted from Trogus, connected by colourless moralizing by Justin.

But I do miss Philip Burton's tremulous joy in Reverend Eli Jenkins's celebratory ode to 'Dear Gwalia' and the children's delightful playground singing is a sad casualty of the abridgement.

It established the common law doctrine of fair abridgement, which was cited in other cases, ultimately building up to the idea of fair use.