The Fifteenth Amendment ( ratified February 3, 1870 ) forbade the denial or abridgment of the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, and gave Congress the power to enforce the law by appropriate legislation.

* Versuch einer allgemeinen-deutschen Synonymik ( Halle and Leipzig, 1795 – 1802, six volumes, fourth edition 1852 – 1853 ) — an abridgment was published by the author in one large volume ( Halle, 1802 )

He retired from the bar in 1870 and spent the rest of his life in charitable and literary work, in particular an abridgment of his father in law's seven volume biography of Scott with a preface dedicated to Gladstone.

This abridgment was of Frazer's twelve-volume third edition of his opus, which Frazer himself had abridged into one volume in 1922.

xiii, " Cum ad Sacrosanctae Romanae Ecclesiae ") prescribes their work, determines how much they may charge for their labour, fixes a certain tax for an abstract or abridgment of twenty-five words, or their equivalent, 150 letters, forbids them to charge more, even though the abstract goes over twenty-five words but less than fifty words, enacts that the basis of the tax is the labour employed in writing, expediting, etc., the Bulls, and by no means the emoluments accruing to the recipient of the favour or benefice conferred by the Bull, and declares that whoever shall charge more than the tax fixed by him shall be suspended for six months from office, and upon a second violation of the law, shall be deprived of it altogether, and if the delinquent be an abbreviator, he shall be excommunicated.

Gregory VII ( pope 1073 – 1085 ), too, simplified the liturgy as performed at the Roman court, and gave his abridgment the name of Breviary, which thus came to denote a work which from another point of view might be called a Plenary, involving as it did the collection of several works into one.

An abridgment differs from an epitome in that an abridgment is made of selected quotations of a larger work ; no new writing is composed, as opposed to the epitome, which is an original summation of a work, at least in part.

The book of 2 Maccabees itself is said by its author to be an abridgment of a five-volume work by a Hellenized Jew by the name of Jason of Cyrene who lived around 100 BC.

Although the offending passages are duly omitted or softened in his abridgment of his longer work, the Historia Anglorum ( written about 1253 ), Paris's real feelings must have been an open secret.

The Cronica dei Matematici ( published at Urbino in 1707 ) is an abridgment of a larger work on which he had written for twelve years, and was intended to contain the lives of more than two hundred mathematicians.

In the two remaining years of his life he was engaged on a reduction or " abridgment " of this work, which is known as the Book of Cupar, and is preserved in the Advocates ' library, Edinburgh ( MS. 35.

in 1798 Cuvier published his first independent work, the Tableau élémentaire de l ' histoire naturelle des animaux, which was an abridgment of his course of lectures at the École du Pantheon, and may be regarded as the foundation and first statement of his natural classification of the animal kingdom.

When John came to Constantinople, he edited the Nomocanon, an abridgment of his former work, with the addition of a comparison of the imperial rescripts and civil laws ( especially the Novels of Justinian ) under each head.

This is an abridgment of Pertz and Delbrück's monumental work, and also takes account of later work.

As the Eunomian passage was found by Rufinus in both the recensions of Clement known to him, we may suppose that the interpolation was made in the original work by a Eunomian about 365 – 70, before the abridgment R was made about 370 – 80.

Having worked as an assistant on the production of Webster's dictionary, he produced an abridgment of Webster's work in 1829.

Freytag's principal work was the laborious and praiseworthy Lexicon Arabicolatinum ( Halle, 1830-1837 ), an abridgment of which was published in 1837.

All these works are of the same character: they are brief guides to halacha, in the form of an abridgment and updating of Joseph Caro's Shulchan Aruch ( the normative work of halacha ).

Soon after the publication of the American Dictionary, by his father-in-law, Noah Webster ( 1828 ), Dr. Goodrich was entrusted by its author with power to superintend an abridgment of the work, which he did, conforming the orthography more nearly to the common standard.

The only work associated with his name is the Liber de prodigiis ( Book of Prodigies ), completely extracted from an epitome, or abridgment, written by Livy ; De prodigiis was constructed as an account of the wonders and portents that occurred in Rome between 249 BC-12 BC.

He is the author of Supplement au dictionnaire de Morri ( 1735 ), and a Nouveau Supplement to a subsequent edition of the work ; he collaborated in Bibliothèque française, ou histoire littéraire de la France ( 18 vols, Paris, 1740 – 1759 ); and in the Vies des saints ( 7 vols, 1730 ); he also wrote Mémoires historiques et littéraires sur le collège royal de France ( 1758 ); Histoire des Inquisitions ( Paris, 1752 ); and supervised an edition of César-Pierre Richelet's Dictionnaire, of which he has also given an abridgment.

In addition, an 1863 abridgment of the work, A Short Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, is also online, complete.

A rearrangement and abridgment of the work was made by the great Monophysite author Bar-Hebraeus ( 1226 – 1286 ), who expunged or garbled much of its unorthodox teaching.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

Abbreviators are those who make an abridgment or abstract of a long writing or discourse by contracting the parts, i. e. the words and sentences ; an abbreviated form of writing common among the Romans.

Already in the 8th century Prudentius, bishop of Troyes, had in a Breviarium Psalterii made an abridgment of the Psalter for the laity, giving a few psalms for each day, and Alcuin had rendered a similar service by including a prayer for each day and some other prayers, but no lessons or homilies.

The Libertarian Party views attempts by government to control obscenity or pornography as " an abridgment of liberty of expression " and opposes any government intervention to regulate it.

These were generally presented by John Quincy Adams, who as a member of Congress identified himself particularly with the struggle against any Congressional abridgment of the right of petition.

It was further suggested that these treatises are an abridgment made in the latter half of the 2nd century of the Genealogiae of Hyginus by an unknown adapter, who added a complete treatise on mythology.

We still possess a collection of proverbs under his name, probably an abridgment of the collection made by himself from his lexicon ( ed.

Worcester and Goodrich's abridgment of Noah Webster's 1841 ( 1844 ) edition was printed, this time by Harper and Brothers of New York City, in 1844, with added words as an appendix.

The abridgment of Xiphilinus, as now extant, commences with the 35th book and continues to the end of the 80th book ( it is a very indifferent performance and was made by order of the emperor Michael VII Parapinaces ).

In jurisprudence his study was far from being devoted solely to Justinian ; he recovered and gave to the world a part of the Theodosian Code, with explanations ; and he procured the manuscript of the Basilica, a Greek abridgment of Justinian, afterwards published by Fabrot.

An authorised abridgment of Lady Chatterley's Lover that was heavily censored was published in America by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1928.

An abridgment of his philosophy was given by his friend, the celebrated traveller, François Bernier ( Abrégé de la philosophie de Gassendi, 8 vols., 1678 ; 2nd ed., 7 vols., 1684 ).

In 1817 he published The Beauties of Massinger, and in 1820 an abridgment of William Blackstone's Commentaries, begun by John Giffard and published under his name, later translated into German.

* Rules for Living: The Ethics of Social Cooperation, 1999 ( an abridgment by Bettina Bien Greaves of Hazlitt's The Foundations of Morality.

As with the penultimate Giselle release ( Wolff's abridgment for RCA Victor ) I find the cleaner, less razor-edged monophonic version, for all its lack of big-stage spaciousness, the more aurally tolerable -- but this may be the result of processing defects in my SD copies.

Noah Webster's assistant, and later chief competitor, Joseph Emerson Worcester, and Webster's son-in-law Chauncey A. Goodrich, published an abridgment of Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language in 1829, with the same number of words and Webster's full definitions, but without the literary references.

A further reason for abridgment is that Shakespeare assumed that his audiences would be familiar with the Henry VI plays, and frequently made indirect references to events in them, such as Richard's murder of Henry VI or the defeat of Henry's queen Margaret.

An abridgment of this appeared in 1889 with the title Grundriss der Dogmengeschichte ( 3rd ed., 1898 ).

* Largely an abridgment of, minus Rejewski's appendices, which have been replaced with appendices of varying quality by other authors

Worcester's first edited dictionary was an abridgment of Samuel Johnson's English Dictionary, as Improved by Todd, and Abridged by Chalmers ; with Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary Combined, published in the United States in 1827, the year before Noah Webster's American Dictionary appeared.

One of the most laborious of his works was the abridgment, in conjunction with G. Shaw and R. Pearson, of the Philosophical Transactions.

In comparison to the smaller abridgment, this " Middle Liddell " contains more entries covering the essential vocabulary of most commonly read Ancient Greek literature, adds citations of the authors to illustrate the history of Greek usage, and provides more help with irregular forms.

" del Rey noted that the translation was based on a 1948 abridgment prepared by the author's son, with other modifications made by the translator.

Provided with new annotations and a revised translation, the book presents an abridgment revealing the historical chronology.

Smith completed the Book of Mormon without retranslating the Book of Lehi, replacing it with what he claimed was an abridgment taken from the " Plates of Nephi.

He also published an abridgment under the title Allgemeine Geschichte des israelitischen Volkes ( 1831 – 1832 ), and an edition of the Mishna with a German translation and notes ( 6 volumes, 1832 – 1834 ).

* William Smellie: A sett of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment, of the practice of midwifery ( London, 1749 )

Constitution of 1917 ( based in a large part on Crowley's 1913 Constitution of the M ∴ M ∴ M ∴), with a " Synopsis of Degrees " and an abridgment of " The Message of the Master Therion " appended.

Holmes, writing for a unanimous Court, ruled that it was a violation of the Espionage Act of 1917, ( amended with the Sedition Act of 1918 ), to distribute flyers opposing the draft during World War I. Holmes argued this abridgment of free speech was permissible because it presented a " clear and present danger " to the government's recruitment efforts for the war.

Biel's other works include: Sacri canonis Missae expositio resolutissima literalis et mystica ( Brixen, 1576 ); an abridgment of this work, entitled Epitome expositionis canonis Missae ( Antwerp, 1565 ); Sermones ( Brixen, 1585 ), on the Sundays and festivals of the Christian year, with a disquisition on the plague and a defence of the authority of the pope ; Collectorium sive epitome in magistri sententiarum libros IV ( Brixen, 1574 ); and Tractatus de potestate et utilitate monetarum.