Lawfully made abridgmentsare protected on account of the judgment which the abridger must exercise in order to do his work well.
The same doctrine as to abridgmentswas repeated in D'Almaine v.
I think that to-day the Courts in America as well as England would, if the question of abridgments were to come before them, cut down the right of the abridger very considerably.
Others formed abridgments in drawing them from various authors, but from whose works they only took what appeared to them most worthy of observation, and embellished them in their own style.
This they imagined to effect by forming abridgments of these ponderous tomes.
These Abridgments are in the form of small 8vo volumes.
Before quitting the subject of Patents it may, perhaps, be serviceable to call attention to the admirable Abridgments of Specifications now publishing by the Patent Commissioners.
These Bible abridgments were literally little books, usually three or four inches long, covered with brown or mottled paper.
As the romances ceased to be produced, the ballads gradually took their place, many of which indeed are either fragments or abridgments of them.
At a later period other epic poems were written, either as abridgments of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, or founded on episodes contained in them.
Abridgments of Ken's morning and evening hymns are in all.
Ibn Batuta's travels have only been known in Europe during the 19th century; at first merely by Arabic abridgments in the Gotha and Cambridge libraries.
Such pictures are abridgments of long narratives, but they leave in the mind a fulness of horror.
In abridgments for children, the facts are usually interspersed with what the authors intend for moral reflections, and easy explanations of political events, which are meant to be suited to the meanest capacities.
Even the least exceptionable historic abridgments require the corrections of a patient parent.
Such is the Book of Mormon as to its construction--the number of its writers, and the style employed in the parts that are abridgments from the larger records of the Nephites and Jaredites.
A few extracts and abridgments of letters will complete the picture of this most interesting time.
The feelings of others may be gathered out of abridgments from Cicero's letters: Cicero to Plancius.
But these abridgments were very dry for an imagination like Augustin's.
There were, however, abridgmentsused in the schools, a kind of summaries of the Trojan War, written by Latin grammarians under the odd pseudonyms of Dares the Phrygian and Dictys of Crete.
The value of the work would have been increased ifabridgments and omissions had been noted.
It has all the substantial portions of the copy given in Margry, but there are occasional abridgments and occasional additions.
A large proportion of this species of literature consists of abridgments of larger works or of new versions on a scale suited to the penny History and Garland.
I cannot reach a decision altogether satisfactory to myself regarding Besterman's inclusion of "abridgments of patent specifications" (I, p.
If these abridgments are to be included, then one is tempted to call attention to the fact that many German doctoral dissertations offer good bibliographies of small subjects and can be very useful on occasion.
The abridgments apply the doctrine to cases which make no mention of it, and which were decided before it was ever heard of.
Lord Coke's caution not to rely on the abridgments is very necessary to the proper study of the history of consideration.
The library belonging to the Cathedral Church of San Martino at Lucca in the ninth century contained only nineteen volumes of abridgments from ecclesiastical commentaries.
I have examined very carefully one of the abridgments from Walter Scott, and I would not have believed the essentials of the story could have been retained with so severe an abridgment.
Hence I look to such abridgments as you have made for a great extension of Walter Scott's usefulness.
The abridgmentsof Stanbridge's Accidence led, I presume, to the distinction of the original text as the Long Accidence, although I have not personally met with more than a single edition of the work under such a title.
She had stuck bravely to the abridgments and the juvenile scraps of --ologies, and had been altogether a model of propriety, sewing on such a number of strings and buttons during the period as can only be compassed by the maternal mind.
At what time did abridgments begin to be used at Rome?
The other books in the series have also been most carefully revised, and the newabridgments prepared, by and under the direction of Prof.
The publishers have now the pleasure of presenting the abridgments of Webster's American Dictionary in a carefully revised, greatly improved, and, as nearly as possible, perfected form.
It is believed that the mere increase in the sale of these abridgments the present year, will be greater than the entire combined sale of all other American Dictionaries.
Yet Homilies and Recognitions are abridgments made on different principles and convey rather different impressions to their readers.
From the middle of the 16th century the elements of Latin were generally learned from unattractive abridgments of the grammar of the Flemish scholar, van Pauteren or Despautere (d.
Abridgments of Polish history were given by Miklaszcwski and Falenski.
But many of them were in the habit of making at least Bohemian extracts or abridgments of their most popular works, or sometimes had the whole of them translated by their pupils.
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