Attention to detail is exhibited by the Prefaces in Rosicrucian and Fifth Editions, which state that the first four editions were sold by private subscription before delivery from the printer ; the Preface of the Subscribers ' Edition does not refer to any other edition, and the Preface of Theosophical Edition refers to the Subscribers ' Edition and the King Solomon Edition.

" In 1996, Rosemary Ashton claimed that the poem was " one of the most famous poems in the language " and claimed the Preface as " the most famous, but probably not the most accurate, preface in literary history.

Saxo finished the history with the Preface, which he wrote last, about 1216 under the patronage of Anders Sunesen who replaced Absalon as Archbishop of Lund.

In his Translator's Preface, Müller wrote, " The bridge of thoughts and sighs that spans the whole history of the Aryan world has its first arch in the Veda, its last in Kant's Critique .… While in the Veda we may study the childhood, we may study in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason the perfect manhood of the Aryan mind .… The materials are now accessible, and the English-speaking race, the race of the future, will have in Kant's Critique another Aryan heirloom, as precious as the Veda — a work that may be criticised, but can never be ignored.

The Preface relates to the Marylebone Cricket Club and the history of the Laws.

The Preface to the Phenomenology, all by itself, is considered one of Hegel's major works and a major text in the history of philosophy, because in it he sets out the core of his philosophical method and what distinguishes it from that of any previous philosophy, especially that of his German Idealist predecessors ( Kant, Fichte, and Schelling ).

In fact, the earliest description of the puzzle in Chinese history was written by Yang Shen, a scholar in 16th century in his Dan Qian Zong Lu ( Preface to General Collections of Studies on Lead ).

* Missa Cantata ( Latin for " sung mass "): celebrated by a priest without deacon and subdeacon, and thus a form of Low Mass, but with some parts ( the three variable prayers, the Scripture readings, Preface, Pater Noster, and Ite Missa Est ) sung by the priest, and other parts ( Introit, Kyrie, Gloria, Gradual, Tract or Alleluia, Credo, Offertory Antiphon, Sanctus and Benedictus, Agnus Dei, and Communion Antiphon ) sung by the choir.

John Cowper Powys in his " Preface " to James Hanley's Men in Darkness ( 1931 ), comments: " There are few people who could read these powerful and terrible tales without being strongly affected " ( ix ).

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.

In 1738, while hearing Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans read at St. Botolph Church on Aldersgate Street in London, John Wesley famously felt his heart " strangely warmed ", a conversion experience which is often seen as the beginning of Methodism.

The Preface then allows for Coleridge to leave the poem as a fragment, which represents the inability for the imagination to provide complete images or truly reflect reality.

Its Preface is world famous and has been used in many studies of the creative process as a signal instance in which a poem has come to us directly from the unconscious.

" When talking about the Preface, Jasper claimed that it " profoundly influenced the way in which the poem has been understood ".

Hegel begins his definition of the subject at a standpoint derived from Aristotelian physics: " the unmoved which is also self-moving " ( Preface, pgph.

::"... the bifurcation of the simple ; it is the doubling which sets up opposition, and then again the negation of this indifferent diversity and of its anti-thesis " ( Preface, pgph.

One of his major prophetic sources was evidently the Mirabilis Liber of 1522, which contained a range of prophecies by Pseudo-Methodius, the Tiburtine Sibyl, Joachim of Fiore, Savonarola and others ( his Preface contains 24 biblical quotations, all but two in the order used by Savonarola ).

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 his " Preface to Lyrical Ballads ", which is called the " manifesto " of English Romantic criticism, Wordsworth calls his poems " experimental.

Regarding article 1 of the preface of Dei Verbum, Joseph Ratzinger writes, " The brief form of the Preface and the barely concealed illogicalities that it contains betray clearly the confusion from which it has emerged.

A two-volume edition, abridged by John Terraine to omit battles outside the European continent, was published in 1970 by Picador: ths is not to be confused with the original edition of 1939-40, also in two volumes, of which the three volume edition is a substantial revision, as described in its Preface.

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.

" ( Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman, co-authors of The Elements of Statistical Learning in their Preface to the Second Edition have a footnote which reads: " On the Web, this quote has been widely attributed to both Deming and Robert W. Hayden ; however Professor Hayden told us that he can claim no credit for this quote, and ironically we could find no ' data ' confirming Deming actually said this.

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 ).

The first session convened in the upstairs Dining Room ( known as the Guard Room ); the remainder of the first day was spent debating the Preface to the Address which was intended to be issued after the conference.

The Preface and some of the alterations and additions are in Marx's hand ; the bulk of the manuscript, however, is in Engels ' hand, except for Chapter V of Volume II and some passages of Chapter III of Volume I which are in Joseph Weydemeyer's hand.

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 many respects, their criticism echoes what William Wordsworth wrote in Preface to Lyrical Ballads to instigate the Romantic movement in British poetry over a century earlier, criticising the gauche and pompous school which then pervaded, and seeking to bring poetry to the layman.

:* Preface to the Scenic Unity " The Person and the others ", ( IS # 5 ) which is a critique of theatre.

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.

Heywood's best known plays are his domestic tragedies and comedies ( plays set among the English middle classes ); his masterpiece is generally considered to be A Woman Killed with Kindness ( acted 1603 ; printed 1607 ), a domestic tragedy about an adulterous wife, and a widely admired Plautine farce The English Traveller ( acted approximately 1627 ; printed 15 July 1633 ), which is also known for its informative " Preface ", giving Heywood an opportunity to inform the reader about his prolific creative output.

Cranmer collected the material from many sources ; even the opening of Preface ( above ) was borrowed.

In The Grammar of Science, Preface to the 2nd Edition, 1900, Karl Pearson wrote, " There are many signs that a sound idealism is surely replacing, as a basis for natural philosophy, the crude materialism of the older physicists.

During the 1990s, critics continued to praise the poem with many critics placing emphasis on what the Preface adds to the poem.

Shortly thereafter, Eric Havelock's Preface to Plato revolutionized how scholars looked at Homeric epic by arguing not only that it was the product of an oral tradition, but also that the oral-formulas contained therein served as a way for ancient Greeks to preserve cultural knowledge across many different generations.

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Moore's Paradox has also been connected to many other of the well-known logical paradoxes including, though not limited to, the liar paradox, the knower paradox, the unexpected hanging paradox, and the Preface paradox.

According to the Preface of Catalogue of Greek Coins in the Hunterian Collection ( Macdonald 1899 ), Hunter purchased many important collections, including those of Horace Walpole and the bibliophile Thomas Crofts.

Perelandra was published in 1943, one year after A Preface to Paradise Lost, and deals with many of the same issues: the value of hierarchy, the dullness of Satan, and the nature of unfallen sexuality, for instance.

( The reason that the translators preferred the Vulgate, in many cases, was explained in their Preface, pointing to assorted corruptions of various ' original ' texts available in that era, to assertions that St. Jerome had access to manuscripts that were later destroyed, and to the Council of Trent ’ s decree that the Vulgate was free of doctrinal error.

Although James E. Murphy noted that "... most uses of the term seem to refer to something more specific than vague new directions in journalism ", Curtis D. MacDougal devoted the Preface of the Sixth Edition of his Interpretative Reporting to New Journalism and cataloged many of the contemporary definitions: " Activist, advocacy, participatory, tell-it-as-you-see-it, sensitivity, investigative, saturation, humanistic, reformist and a few more.

In the Preface to Omoo, Melville claimed to have written the novel " from simple recollection " strengthened by his retelling the story many times before family and friends.

For short accounts of many of the novels see the Preface on.

In the Preface to the Da Capo Press Edition of the original book, Pickard asserts that " If asked to choose the scientific report which most clearly marks the beginning of the modern study of plant growth, a great many botanists would select Charles Darwin's The Power of Movement in Plants.

Much of the humour, charm and enthusiastic optimism mentioned in his many obituaries still comes across from the friendly, lucid style of his two most famous books, whose ' point of view ', according to his Preface to The Grandeur that was Rome, ' is that of humanity and the progress of civilisation '.

See the Preface to Ahlwardt's Abu Nowas ( Greifswald, 1861 ), pp. 13-18, and the many stories of his life in the Kitab al-Aghani, V. 2-49.