According to Percival Serle, Denison was a man of high character and a good administrator.

According to Percival Serle, " Wade was a public-spirited man of high character.

According to Percival Serle, few premiers of New South Wales succeeded in doing so much distinguished work.

According to the preface the purpose of Luke is to write a historical account, while bringing out the theological significance of the history.

" According to the preface the author had been " many years since deceased " and was " highly preferred in the Church of Rome.

According to the preface to the Code, " From 1897 to 1907 a commission was engaged in an effort to codify the great mass of accumulating legislation.

According to the preface of a book by the Swedish critic Olof Lagercrantz, Swedenborg wrote to his benefactor and brother-in-law Eric Benzelius that he believed he ( Swedenborg ) might be destined to be a great scientist.

According to the preface, the work is a romance and not a historical novel, because the author neither " dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historical novel.

According to Vitruvius ( vii., preface ) he lived during the age of Ptolemy Philadelphus, by whom he was crucified as the punishment of his criticisms on the king ; but this account should probably be rejected as a fiction based on Zoilus ' reputation.

According to her own history included as a preface to one of the books, her first words were " cauliflower penis ".

According to Lu Fayan's preface, the initial plan of the work was drawn up 20 years earlier in consultation with a group of scholars, 3 from southern China and 5 from the north.

According to the preface, Book VI is intended to resolve difficulties occurring in the so-called " lesser astronomical works " ( μίκρός άστρονομούμενος ), i. e. works other than the Almagest.

According to the NASB's preface, the translators had a " Fourfold Aim " in this work:

According to St. Melito in the 2nd century AD, it was considered canonical by Jews and Christians, and a Hebrew translation of the Wisdom of Solomon is mentioned by Naḥmanides in the preface to his commentary on the Pentateuch.

According to the preface of The Early English Text Society the Cursor Mundi is a collection of poignant and vivid versions of stories arranged “ in an orderly, encyclopedic yet fundamentally digressive manner ”.

According to the preface of the New King James Version ( p. v-vi ), the NKJV uses the 1967 / 1977 Stuttgart edition of the Biblia Hebraica for the Old Testament, with frequent comparisons made to the Ben Hayyim edition of the Mikraot Gedolot published by Bomberg in 1524 – 25, which was used for the King James Version.

According to Fihrist's brief preface, it is meant to be an index of all books written in Arabic, whether by Arabs or others.

According to the book's preface, under 100 copies were made by the author.

According to Stuart Jones's preface to the ninth ( 1925 ) edition, the creation of the Lexicon was originally proposed by David Alphonso Talboys, an Oxford publisher.

According to the preface of the first edition, reprinted in subsequent editions, Capra struggled to reconcile theoretical physics and Eastern mysticism and was at first " helped on my way by ' power plants '" or psychedelics, with the first experience " so overwhelming that I burst into tears, at the same time, not unlike Castaneda, pouring out my impressions to a piece of paper.

According to its preface, it was written in the reign of Emperor Takakura and 2nd year of Kaō or 1170.

According to the preface of his 1571 publication of organ tablature he traveled to foreign lands to study, but he gave no specifics.

According to Clarke's preface to the book, the book was his third collection of short stories, which were written between 1953 and 1957 in such diverse spots as New York, Miami, Colombo, London and Sydney.

According to the preface to the book State and Salvation: " One of the results of the Witnesses ' legal battles was the long process of discussion and debate that led to the Charter of Rights, which is now part of the fundamental law of Canada.

According to Ward Wheelock who wrote a preface to the 1952 book, This I Believe was launched in 1949 at a business luncheon of four men ( Murrow being one, but he did not name the other three.

According to its preface, Clotel is a polemic narrative against slavery written for a British audience: