The text is divided into two parts, consisting of what Wittgenstein calls, in the preface, Bemerkungen, translated by Anscombe as " remarks ".

In the preface to his 1628 translation of Thucydides, entitled, Eight Bookes of the Peloponesian Warres, political philosopher Thomas Hobbes calls Thucydides " the most politic historiographer that ever writ.

The noted scholar Edward Augustus Freeman said he was " the father of comparative philology ," and in the preface to the last volume of Gerald's works in the Rolls Series, he calls him " one of the most learned men of a learned age ," " the universal scholar.

Hyginus in the preface to his fables calls her Admeto, and a daughter of Pontus and Thalassa.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche calls himself a " Trophonios " in the preface to his Daybreak, alluding to his labor in the underground of moral prejudices.

In the preface to his famous law code, King Hammurabi calls himself " the subduer of the settlements along the Euphrates with the help of Dagan, his creator ".

However, the Homeric questions led to his name becoming a byword for harsh and malignant criticism: in antiquity he gained the name Homeromastix, " scourge of Homer "; in the modern period, Cervantes calls Zoilus a " slanderer " in the preface to Don Quixote and there is also a ( now disused ) proverb, " Every poet has his Zoilus.

In his preface the compiler calls himself a knight, and states that he was born and bred in England, of the town of St Albans.

Thus when Paladine is first encountered in the novels, albeit incognito, in the preface to Dragons of Autumn Twilight, he calls himself " Fizban " and represents himself to be a clumsy and absent-minded wizard.

Although it calls the language " Occitan ", it uses Aranese spelling and its preface says that special attention is given to the Aranese variety.

In the preface to the collection, the author of the collection calls himself bishop Isidorus Mercator ( hence the name of the whole complex ).

But as he remarks in his preface to The Walnut Trees, `` a novel can hardly ever be rewritten '', and `` when this one appears in its final form, the form of the first part will no doubt be radically changed ''.

The word curling first appears in print in 1620 in Perth, in the preface and the verses of a poem by Henry Adamson.

* 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.

The English physician and philosopher, Sir Thomas Browne, specifically employed the word encyclopaedia for the first time in English as early as 1646 in the preface to the reader to describe his Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, a series of refutations of common errors of his age.

As the preface to the 2nd edition ( 1976 ) notes, the first edition ( 1955 ) appears to have received relatively little attention from the literary establishment because of its then-unfashionable Marxist viewpoint.

In the preface to the first edition of his book, Butler specified:

The first paper from his years of study in Paris appeared in Frankfurt am Main in 1816, under the title of Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleichung mit jenem der griechischen, lateinischen, persischen und germanischen Sprache ( On the Conjugation System of Sanskrit in comparison with that of Greek, Latin, Persian and Germanic ) ( Windischmann contributed a preface ).

The first edition of the book was published, without Kant or Fichte's knowledge, without Fichte's name and signed preface ; it was thus mistakenly thought to be a new work by Kant himself.

In the preface to the 1977 English translation Murray Rothbard called " The Production of Security " the " first presentation anywhere in human history of what is now called anarcho-capitalism " though admitting that " Molinari did not use the terminology, and probably would have balked at the name.

His journal was first published in 1694, after editing by Thomas Ellwood — a friend and associate of John Milton — with a preface by William Penn.

Wells also wrote the preface for the first edition of W. N. P. Barbellion's diaries, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, published in 1919.

The first definite impulse came from the lectures of Friedrich Karl von Savigny, the celebrated investigator of Roman law, who, as Wilhelm Grimm himself says in the preface to the Deutsche Grammatik ( German Grammar ), first taught him to realize what it meant to study any science.

In 1822 this volume appeared in a second edition ( really a new work, for, as Grimm himself says in the preface, it cost him little reflection to mow down the first crop to the ground ).

As Grimm in the preface to his first edition expressly mentioned this essay of Rask, there is every probability that it inspired his own investigations.

However others, pointing to Marx's encounter with late 19th-century Russian populism and Marx and Engels's preface to the second Russian edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( 1882 ), have argued that Marx evinced a growing conviction in his late writings that revolution could in fact emerge first in Russia.

" Furthermore, the preface indicates that the book was first printed in 1602.

Ockley maintained that a knowledge of Oriental literature was essential to the proper study of theology, and in the preface to his first book, the Introductio ad linguas orientates ( 1706 ), he urges the importance of the study.

The word surrealist was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire and first appeared in the preface to his play Les Mamelles de Tirésias, which was written in 1903 and first performed in 1917.

The preface to his first exhibition in the Furstenberg Gallery ( 1957 ) was written by Breton yet.

As he states in the preface, he saw the book as a preamble to his other philosophical and theological books ; in fact, he suggests that Natural Theology should be read first, so as to build a systematic understanding of his arguments.

His first publications were an edition of Terence ( 1516 ) and his Greek grammar ( 1518 ), but he had written previously the preface to the Epistolae clarorum virorum of Reuchlin ( 1514 ).

In the preface to the first edition of Scènes de la Vie privée, he writes: " The author firmly believes that details alone will henceforth determine the merit of works ….

The Selfish Gene was first published in 1976 in eleven chapters with a preface by the author and a foreword by Robert Trivers.

It caused Escoffier to note when he was asked to write the preface that he could " see with my own eyes ," and " Montagné cannot hide from me the fact that he has used Le Guide as a basis for his new book, and certainly used numerous recipes.

The play's preface says that while the trial was its " genesis ," it is " not history.

As the translator himself notes in his preface to the three volumes, " o attempt has been made to superimpose on the translation changes that would be needed to ' rectify ' ... accretions, ... repetitions, non sequiturs and confusions that mark the present text ," and the work is a " representation of what is primarily oral literature, appealing to the ear rather than the eye.

Neither expedient prevented the play from being " silenc'd on the third day ," as Tate wrote in his preface.

In its original Greek setting, " strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of stanza framed only for the music ," as John Milton wrote in the preface to Samson Agonistes, with the strophe chanted by a Greek chorus as it moved from right to left across the scene.

With its similar title and prominent mention of Arrian in the preface, it may have been intended as a sequel to Arrian's " The Campaigns of Alexander ," or simply to fill in the gaps in his account.

The value of the " Northumbrian Annals ," which Symeon used for the Historia regum, has been discussed by John Hodgson-Hinde in the preface to his Symeonis Dunelmensis opera, vol.

In the preface, the editors say, " Experience has shown that some older treasures were missed when the current hymnals were compiled ," a diplomatic way of saying, " It's all right to sing these songs in church.

As he described his condition in the preface " Democritus Junior to the Reader ,"

" My greatest trouble ," he says in the preface to the second edition of his Einleitung, " I had to bestow on a hitherto unworked field -- on the investigation of the inner nature of the Old Testament with the help of the Higher Criticism ( not a new name to any humanist ).

" 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.

She wrote the preface to the book " How Your Mind Can Keep You Well ," a meditation technique developed by Roy Masters.

" His principal design ," he says in the preface to the two first treatises, " is to show that human nature was not left quite indifferent in the affair of virtue, to form to itself observations concerning the advantage or disadvantage of actions, and accordingly to regulate its conduct.

" The book, which Byrne describes in the preface as a " partial life ," identifies other real-life bases for events and characters in Waugh's novel, though Byrne argues carefully against simple one-to-one correspondences, suggesting instead that Waugh combined people, places and events into composite inventions, subtle transmutations of life into fiction.

" I was appointed editor ," he says in the preface to the collection of his contributions, " and remained long enough in Edinburgh to edit the first number ( October 1802 ) of the Edinburgh Review.

It was en route to Chile that, in the baths of Zonda, he wrote the graffiti " On ne tue point les idées ," an incident that would later serve as the preface to his book Facundo.

The first printing was the third product of the Stephen Day ( sometimes spelled Daye ) press, and consisted of a hundred and forty-eight small quarto leaves, including a twelve-page preface, " The Psalmes in Metre ," " An Admonition to the Reader ," and an extensive list of errata headed " Faults escaped in printing.

Previously, his first book had been a quickly cobbled together illustrated commentary on the ruins of Rome, assembled in " the space of a few of days ," according to his preface, and the woodcut images were stock productions that already existed.

Professor Gervacio Miranda who also wrote a book in Chabacano said in his preface the following thing ," My only objective to write this book is to possibly conserve in written form the Chavacano of Cavite for posterity ," fearing the extinction of the dialect.

" " How much of this ," Halley adds, " is so, you know best, so likewise what you have to do in this matter ; only Mr Hooke seems to expect you should make some mention of him in the preface, which ' tis possible you may see reason to prefix.