Abraham ibn Ezra translated this title, in his Moznayim, into " Ha-Me ' assef ," while Abu Bukrat's translation, Ha-Kolel, and Moses Botarel's translation, " Ha-Qemitzah ," did not become popular.

Ibn Ezra gives a list of the oldest Hebrew grammarians in the introduction to his Moznayim ( 1140 ).

* Moznayim ( 1140 ), chiefly an explanation of the terms used in Hebrew grammar ; as early as 1148 it was incorporated by Judah Hadassi in his Eshkol ha-Kofer, with no mention of Ibn Ezra ( see " Monatsschrift ," xl.

His grammatical writings, among which Moznayim (" Scales ", 1140 ) and Zahot ( Tzahot = " Dazzlings ", 1141 ) are the most valuable, were the first expositions of Hebrew grammar in the Hebrew language, in which the system of Judah Hayyuj and his school prevailed.

The most recent edition is Sefer Moznayim.

In his youth he wrote Eben Bochan, a commentary on several juridical themes of the Shulkhan Arukh, Choshen Mishpat ( Krotoschin, 1842 ), and Sefer Moznayim la-Mishpat, a commentary, in three parts on the whole Choshen Mishpat ' ( parts i. and ii., Krotoschin and Königsberg, 1855 ; part iii.

*" Preface to al-Sahifah al-Sajadiyah " ( of Imam Ali ibn Hussein al-Sajad ) Tehran: al-Maktabah al-Islamiyah al-Kubra, n. d.

The Two Treatises begin with a Preface announcing what Locke hopes to achieve, but he also mentions that more than half of his original draft, occupying a space between the First and Second Treatises, has been irretrievably lost.

The Preface to the poem suggests that the poem was not supposed to be printed, that it was a fragmentary work that he was unable to complete, and that the work itself was provided to him through involuntary inspiration.

Other literary friends included, Ford Madox Ford, John Galsworthy, W. H. Hudson, George Bernard Shaw ( who openly admits his debt to Graham for " Captain Brassbound's Conversion " as well as a key line in " Arms and the Man ") and G. K. Chesterton, who proclaimed him " The Prince of Preface Writers " and famously declared in his autobiography that while Cunninghame Graham would never be allowed to be Prime Minister, he instead " achieved the adventure of being Cunninghame Graham ", which Shaw described as " an achievement so fantastic that it would never be believed in a romance.

After his death and burial at Civita Castellana in 1100 he was celebrated locally as a miracle-working saint, but Paschal II and the anti-imperial party soon subjected him to a thorough deletio and damnatio memoriae, which included the exhuming and dumping of his remains in the Tiber .< ref > On Clement III and the damning of his memory see: Umberto Longo and Lila Yawn, " Framing Clement III, ( Anti ) Pope, 1080-1100: Preface ," Reti Medievali Rivista, 13 / 1 ( Jun.

Unsatisfied, the emperor dispatched censor Xiao Yi who, disguised as a wandering scholar, gradually gained of confidence of Biancai and persuaded him to bring out the " Orchid Pavilion Preface.

Lessig writes at the end of the Preface, “… the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance between anarchy and control.

Locke claims in the " Preface " to the Two Treatises that its purpose is to justify William III's ascension to the throne, though Peter Laslett suggests that the bulk of the writing was instead completed between 1679-1680 ( and subsequently revised until Locke was driven into exile in 1683 ).

He claims in the Preface that " in the years between 1780 and 1832 most English working people came to feel an identity of interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from ( and usually opposed to ) theirs.

The Mozarabic Rite has as variable texts the Illatio ( i. e. the Preface ), the Post-Sanctus and the Post-Pridie, that is the prayer said between the Institution narrative and the doxology in place of the Intercessions which are placed before the Sursum Corda.

* 1969: The Third Theatre ( Knopf ) – " a collection of pieces written between 1957 and 1968 ... that deal not only with theatre but also with literature, culture, and the movies " ( from the Preface ).

" The Preface to God's Determination " speaks of the Creation, when God " filleted the earth so fine " and " in this Bowling Alley bowld the Sun.

The printed edition ( Presburg, 1838 ), prepared by M. L. Bislichis, contains: ( 1 ) Preface ; ( 2 ) a treatise of eighteen chapters on the incorporeality of God ; ( 3 ) correspondence ; ( 4 ) a treatise, called Sefer ha-Yarḥi, included also in letter 58 ; ( 5 ) a defense of The Guide and its author by Shem-Tob Palquera ( Grätz, Gesch.

Forster makes special mention of the author Ahmed Ali and his Twilight in Delhi in his Preface to its Everyman's Library Edition.

* 1650: A Discourse upon Gondibert, an heroick poem ( or simply Gondibert ), originally published unfinished, then published again in 1651 in its final form and included Davenant's " Preface to his most honour ’ d friend Mr. Hobs " and " The Answer of Mr. Hobbes to Sir William D ’ Avenant ’ s Preface before Gondibert " by Thomas Hobbes, to whom the book was dedicated ; the official second edition in 1653 also contained " Certain Verses, written by severall of the author ’ s friends "

A few sections of the book, such as the Preface, Epilogue, and some reflections on morality are generally assumed to come from the author, not from Jason.

The Preface to this edition, which contained Cranmer's explanation as to why a new prayer book was necessary, began: " There was never any thing by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.

Marx's clearest formulation of his " Materialist Conception of History " was in the 1859 Preface to his book " A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy ," whose relevant passage is reproduced here:

Wilde later revised the story for book publication, making substantial alterations, deleting controversial passages, adding new chapters and including an aphoristic Preface which has since become famous in its own right.

In the Preface to the Reader he claims to have finished the book on March 14, 1663 though publication was delayed for another nine years until 1672.

Also in 1974, TSR published Warriors of Mars, a miniatures rules book set in the fantasy world of Barsoom originally imagined by Edgar Rice Burroughs in his series of novels about John Carter of Mars, to which Gygax paid homage in the " Preface " of the first edition of D & D.

It is therefore fitting that his last book, published posthumously, should be one that he describes as being " something of a shorter and more accessible version of the longer books, The Great Code and Words with Power ," which he asks his readers to read sympathetically, not " as proceeding from a judgment seat of final conviction, but from a rest stop on a pilgrimage, however near the pilgrimage may now be to its close " ( Double Vision Preface ).

This new editorial policy was stated in the Preface to the first anthology to appear under her leadership: " In this new book we have followed a slightly different arrangement to that of our former Anthology.

* Preface to the French high wire artist Philippe Petit's 1985 book, On The High Wire.

In his Author ’ s Preface, Bradley addresses the book “ to educated readers unversed in philology ,” and he succeeds in popularizing his specialty and making it readable rather than resorting to jargon, which he considered an affront to plain English.

In the Preface to the book, Foster begins by asking whether postmodernism exists at all and what it could even mean.

After the two Prefaces ( the A edition Preface of 1781 and the B edition Preface of 1787 ) and the Introduction, the book is divided into the Doctrine of Elements and the Doctrine of Method:

* Preface to von Mises ' book Epistemological Problems of Economics

The book was reissued in 2005 by the prestigious Modern Library, a division of Random House, with an Introduction by Greg Bear and a Preface by Mark Cotta Vaz, and by Penguin in the US.

The following quotations from the Preface of the first book (" Strategy and Computers: Information Systems as Competitive Weapons ") establishes the basic idea behind the notion of SIS:

The reaction of reviewers and readers to the first two books in the series, Shikasta and The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five ( 1980 ), prompted Lessing to write in the Preface to the third book, The Sirian Experiments ( 1980 ):

* On the first anniversary of Rugova ’ s death, the Kosovo Presidency published a book entitled President Rugova, with a Preface by President Fatmir Sejdiu (‘ The First Statesman of Kosovo ’) and a long introduction by Sabri Hamiti (‘ Memento for Rugova ’).

A book of the complete scripts from all three series plus the Hogmanay and Burns Night specials was published in hardback by Preface Publishing on 28 August 2008 entitled The Doings of Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea ?.

MacIntyre writes the following of this shift in the Preface to the book: " Although there is indeed good reason to repudiate important elements in Aristotle's biology, I now judge that I was in error in supposing an ethics independent of biology to be possible.

The book consists of a Preface ( written after the rest was completed ), an Introduction, and six major divisions ( of greatly varying size ): Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, Reason, Spirit, Religion, and Absolute Knowledge.

The First Preface is a rather scathing review of the book.