To Ovid's Epistles Translated by Several Hands ( 1680 ), with preface by Dryden, Penelope to Ulysses was contributed by Rymer, who was also one of the hands who Englished the Plutarch of 1683-86.

A second edition appeared in the following year with extra commendatory verses in Latin and English, some of which bore the names of Nahum Tate, Thomas Otway, Aphra Behn, Richard Duke, and Edmund Waller ; and when Dryden published his translations from Theocritus, Lucretius, and Horace, he made flattering comments on Creech's work in the preface.

In his preface to the printed edition, Dryden explained he had had to adapt the libretto to the changed political circumstances of 1691: " But not to offend the present Times, nor a Government which has hitherto protected me, I have been oblig'd so much to alter the first Design, and take away so many Beauties from the Writing, that it is now no more what it was formerly ..." He also made alterations to suit Purcell's musical needs: " the Numbers of Poetry and Vocal Musick, are sometimes so contrary, that in many places I have been oblig'd to cramp my Verses, and make them rugged to the Reader, that they may be harmonious to the Hearer: Of which I have no Reason to repent me, because these sorts of Entertainments are principally design'd for the Ear and the Eye ; and therefore in Reason my Art on this occasion, ought to be subservient to his.

* The preface of Concrete Mathematics includes the following anecdote: " When Knuth taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft.

Donald Keene explained in a preface to the Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkō Kai edition of the Man ' yōshū:

In the preface, he explained why he had made such large gifts:

Graham explained his decision to revive the series in a preface to The Black Moon.

An annotated copy of Newton's Principia was published in 1742 by Fathers le Seur and Jacquier of the Franciscan Minims, two Catholic mathematicians, with a preface stating that the author's work assumed heliocentrism and could not be explained without the theory.

He explained something of the process in a preface contributed to Gustave Abel's Labeur de la prose ( 1902 ).

To Monteverdi, the words must be " the mistress of the harmony ", and he explained this doctrine in his preface to his Fifth Book of Madrigals with his coinage of the term seconda pratica, in response to the fierce criticism of Giovanni Artusi, who defended the polyphonic style of the 16th century with its controlled dissonance and equal voice parts, and attacked the " barbaric " new style.

Indeed, as explained by Grothendieck in the preface of the published version of SGA, by 1970 it had become clear that incorporation all of the planned material in EGA would require significant changes in the earlier chapters already published, and that therefore the prospects of completing EGA in the near term were limited.

In 1871, in the preface of La Fortune des Rougon, he explained his intent:

" This is in direct contrast to the preface of ASV of 70 years earlier, where the committee explained that " the American Revisers ... were brought to the unanimous conviction that a Jewish superstition, which regarded the Divine Name as too sacred to be uttered, ought no longer to dominate in the English or any other version of the Old Testament.

The reason for this change, as the Committee explained in the preface, was that "... the American Revisers ... were brought to the unanimous conviction that a Jewish superstition, which regarded the Divine Name as too sacred to be uttered, ought no longer to dominate in the English or any other version of the Old Testament ..." Other changes from the RV to the ASV included ( but were not limited to ) substituting " who " and " that " for " which " when referring to people, and Holy Ghost was dropped in favor of Holy Spirit.

As he explained in the 1829 preface to his work, Tegg had been obstructed by legal moves from the side of the Metropolitana, but went ahead anyway, pleading that compilations such as encyclopedias needed different rules of copyright.

As explained in the preface, notes in the center column acknowledge variations from Novum Testamentum Graece ( designated NU after Nestle-Aland and United Bible Societies ) and the Majority Text ( designated M ).

In his preface, Verlaine explained that the title was based on the English word illuminations, in the sense of coloured plates, and a sub-title that Rimbaud had already given the work.

In his preface, " Etteilla " explained that he had learned his system from an Italian ; it remains unclear to what extent his assigned symbology was his own contribution.

In the preface to the printed edition of his play, Fletcher explained the failure as due to his audience's faulty expectations.

Haydn himself explained the origin and difficulty of writing the work when the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel issued ( in 1801 ) a new edition and requested a preface:

In the preface to the Theory of Colours, Goethe explained that he tried to apply the principle of polarity, in the work – a proposition that belonged to his earliest convictions and was constitutive of his entire study of nature.

Here listed are the separate volumes in the order that Uppdal himself later designated and explained in the preface to Herdsla, along with year of publication:

The novelisation of the latter by Paul Victor ( Futura, 1978 ) included a preface by Hayles entitled ' The Thinking Behind Atlantis ' in which he explained the origins of the film's central concepts.

The regions of the world: a Persian geography, 372 A. H .-982 A. D., translated and explained by V. Minorsky ; with the preface by V. V. Barthold, London 1937

Donald Keene explained in a preface to the Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkōkai edition of the Man ' yōshū:

In 1842, Balzac wrote a preface ( an " Avant-propos ") to the whole ensemble in which he explained his method and the collection's structure.

Coleridge described how he wrote the poem in the preface to his collection of poems, Christabel, Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep, published in 1816:

The preface of the book describes how Zhu travelled around China for 20 years as a teacher of mathematics.

The concept of rank at that time was not yet settled, and in the preface to the Magnol spoke of uniting his families into larger, which is far from how the term is used today.

In the preface to the third book, Thorndike writes that the list contained therein “ tells anyone who wishes to know whether to use a word in writing, speaking, or teaching how common the word is in standard English reading matter ” ( p. x ), and he further advises that the list can best be employed by teachers if they allow it to guide the decisions they make choosing which words to emphasize during reading instruction.

Mahan describes in the preface to The Influence of Sea Power upon History how the Romans used their sea power to effectively block the sea lines of communication of Hannibal with Carthage ; and so via a maritime strategy achieved Hannibal's removal from Italy, despite never beating him there with their legions.

Coleridge described how he wrote the poem in the preface to his collection of poems, Christabel, Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep, published in 1816:

" Nobody can reproduce these talks verbatim, but I believe that the spirit of what the people said, and how they did, is conserved ," the author tries to explain in the preface.

As a postmodern, metafictional novel, the first chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five is an author's preface about how he came to write Slaughterhouse-Five, apologizing, because the novel is " so short and jumbled and jangled ," because " there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

The Qieyun preface describes how the book originated from discussions with eight of his friends at his home in Cháng ' ān, which was the Suì capital.

In the preface, Lin writes that " novel is merely a story of ... how certain habits of living and ways of thinking are formed and how, above all, and women adjust themselves to the circumstances in this earthly life where men strive but gods rule.

The foreword is sometimes confused with the preface, which is written by the author of the book and generally covers the story of how the book came into being or how the idea for the book was developed, and may include thanks and acknowledgments to people who were helpful to the author during the time of writing.

In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to " attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it.

In the preface to The Mind Pool, the author describes how he was unhappy with the original.

* A preface, containing details of related documents and information on how to navigate the user guide

It is set out as a comprehensive textbook, complete with commentaries, a section in each chapter dedicated to further reflection upon the commentaries, definitions of terms, tables of questions and answers, an introduction clarifying how to study Kabbalah in the correct manner, and also a summarized preface of the entire text.

William of Newburgh devotes an extended section of the preface of Historia to discredit Geoffrey, saying at one point " only a person ignorant of ancient history would have any doubt about how shamelessly and impudently he lies in almost everything ".

To the flourishing state of learning thus introduced into England, and for a short time maintained, King Alfred appears to allude in the preface to his translation of Pope Gregory I's Liber Pastoralis Curae, in the latter part of the ninth century, where he says that it often came into his mind what wise men there were in the country, both laymen and ecclesiastics, in a former age ; how the clergy in those happy times were diligent both to teach and to study, and how foreigners then came hither to acquire learning and wisdom ; whereas now, in his own day, if any Englishman desired to make himself a scholar, he was obliged to go abroad for instruction.

In the preface to the second edition, Marx said it was the intention of the work to " demonstrate how the class struggle in France created circumstances and relationships that made it possible for a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero's part.

Her preface illuminates the role of Padel ’ s grandmother, Nora Barlow, who in editing Darwin's Autobiography restored a passage in which Darwin said he did not see how anyone could wish the doctrine of hell to be true ; this had been deleted by the first editor, Darwin's son Francis, at his mother's request.

In the preface Ki no Tsurayuki criticized him: " he knows how to construct waka, but there is less real emotion.

Lin himself describes, in his translator's preface to Dicken's The Old Curiosity Shop (), how he worked on his translations:

Each of the nine stories has a short preface of Garfield in his modern incarnation, explaining how these various lives shaped aspects of Garfield's personality, such as the origin of his fear of the veterinarian, his love of destructive behavior, his proclivity for a slothful lifestyle, and his extremely playful side.