The preface then provided an origin to both the poem and why it was merely a smaller portion of an intended larger work.

A passage from the novel appears as the preface of Ian McEwan's Atonement, thus likening the naive mistakes of Austen's Catherine Morland to those of his own character Briony Tallis, who is in a similar position: both characters have very over-active imaginations, which lead to misconceptions that cause distress in the lives of people around them.

Honigmann elaborated these arguments, both in his preface to the second Arden edition of King John, and in his 1982 monograph on Shakespeare's influence on his contemporaries.

Saxo included in the preface warm appreciation of both Archbishops and of the reigning King Valdemar II.

Though the preface to the poem promises both joyous and dark tales ahead, the Nibelungenlied is by and large a very tragic work, and these four opening verses are believed to have been a late addition to the text, composed after the body of the poem had been completed.

In this edition both Herman's above-mentioned translations of treatises about Islam appeared together with a preface by Martin Luther.

The only works he published were Reflections on Learning, showing the Insufficiency thereof in its several particulars, in order to evince the usefulness and necessity of Revelation ( London, 1709 — 1710 ) and the preface to Bishop Fisher's Funeral Sermon for Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby ( 1708 )— both without his name.

In the preface to his Gottesdienstliche Vorträge ( Frankfurt ( Oder ), 1839 ) he appealed both to the government to accord the modern rabbinate the dignity due to it, and to the congregations to cease regarding the rabbi as an expert in Jewish casuistry mainly charged with the duty of answering she ' elot ( ritual questions ) and inquiries concerning dietary laws.

Since both of us refused our names it was published anonymously, Colet merely commending it in a preface.

The genealogical preface to this manuscript, as well as the annual entry ( covering years 855 – 859 ) describing the death of Æthelwulf, both make king Egbert of Wessex the son of an Ealhmund, who was son of Eafa, grandson of Eoppa, and great-grandson of Ingild, the brother of king Ine of Wessex, and descendant of founder Cerdic, and therefore a member of the House of Wessex ( see House of Wessex family tree ).

Stafford Beer in particular both wrote a preface to one of the papers in Maturana & Varela ( 1980 ) Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living and develops applications in his own work on cybernetics and the viable system model.

In a preface to Storm from the Shadows author David Weber confirms both the comparison of Honor to Lord Nelson and widespread reports that he had originally planned on having Honor die in the Battle of Manticore, as " like Nelson, Honor had been supposed to fall in battle at the moment of victory in the climactic battle which saved the Star Kingdom of Manticore and ratified her as the Royal Manticoran Navy's greatest heroine ".

Hammond also wrote the preface to Brother Asaiah, As Remembered by Martha Ellen Anderson and Friends, a memoir of the life of Homer businessman and peace activist Brother Asaiah Bates, which was published in 2006 following the deaths of both Bates and Hammond.

In 2003 a 30th-anniversary edition of The Paper Chase was released by Whitston Publishing which contains both a new preface and an afterword by the author, with the latter containing material deleted from the original novel.

If there is both a foreword and a preface, the foreword appears first ; both appear before the introduction, which may be paginated either with the front matter or the main text.

Orthodox editions also include a preface and commentary, both traditionally attributed to Kong Anguo.

These were examples of the new Baroque style of monody, and he states as much in the preface to his 1608 publication: " I have decided to cater to both tastes.

In the preface to his Englische Verfassungsgeschichte, Gneist writes that he was brought up " in the laborious and rigid school of Prussian judges, at a time when the duty of formulating the matter in litigation was entailed upon the judge who personally conducted the pleadings, I became acquainted both with the advantages possessed by the Prussian bureau system as also with its weak points.

Jim McCawley ( erstwhile professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago, who wrote his scatolinguistic treatises under the noms de plume of Quang Phúc Ðông and Yuck Foo, both of the fictional South Hanoi Institute of Technology ) is credited, on page ix of the preface of Studies out in left field as having " created the interdisciplinary field of pornolinguistics and scatolinguistics virtually on his own " in 1967.

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 Lu Ch ' iu-Yin's preface to Hanshan's poems, he claims to have personally met both Hanshan and Shide at the kitchen of the temple in Kuo-ch ' ing, but they responded to his salutations with laughter then fled.

As seen in the preface to the collection, addressed to his publisher, Arsène Houssaye, Baudelaire attempted to write a text that was very accessible to a reader while pulling the most appealing aspects of both prose and poetry and combining them into the revolutionary genre of prose poetry.

He has been identified with the Thomas Shelton who wrote a sonnet prefixed to the Restitution of Decayed Intelligence ( 1605 ) of Richard Verstegan, who was most likely the friend referred to in Shelton's preface, for there is reason to believe that both of them were then involved in the intrigues of the Roman Catholics in England.

Chamberlain wrote the preface to the Radical Programme ( July 1885 ), the first campaign handbook of British political history.

He helped David Gray by writing a preface for The Luggie and he helped to obtain a job for Coventry Patmore at the British Museum.

The Pharmacopoeia is defined in the preface as only " intended to afford to the members of the medical profession and those engaged in the preparation of medicines throughout the British Empire one uniform standard and guide whereby the nature and composition of, substances to be used in medicine may be ascertained and determined.

In the preface of the book's 1st edition, its British publisher casts doubt on the accuracy of Mahathir's assumptions and facts.

In April 1935, a volume of essays by five leading National Labour politicians was published under the title " Towards a National Policy: being a National Labour Contribution "; MacDonald contributed a preface in which he argued that the Labour opposition " is as little guided by Socialist opinion and inspired by the fine human spirit of our British Socialism as any other political party of pure expediency striving for a majority ".

In the preface, de Calzada also warns the reader of the questionable quality of the text, as good British texts were only written by " Fyelding " and Richardson, the two authors with international fame ( in contrast to the often mechanical " romances " produced by various names for shops like Edmund Curll's or the satirical romances appearing under one-off pseudonyms that were not, first and foremost, novels ).

" In the editors ' preface to a 1952 monograph they write " An object of the New Naturalist series is the recognition of the many-sidedness of British natural history, and the encouragement of unusual and original developments of its forgotten or neglected facets.

Brian Aldiss, in his preface to the 1962 edition, acknowledges the deep impression on him-and considerable influence on his own later writing-of Stapledon's book, which he encountered in 1943 while a British soldier fighting the Japanese in Burma-" An appropriately unusual period of life at which to encounter a vision so far outside ordinary experience ".

The sleeve notes to Patterson's 1985 LP, 12 Inches of Les, identify him a KBE ( Knight Commander of the British Empire ), while his own signature, as seen in the preface to his book The Traveller's Tool, identifies him as a KCB ( Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath ).

It was also published in the Swedish journal Politiken in March 1918, from which a British copy was published by Cassel & Co. later in 1918 with a preface by Professor Gilbert Murray.

" This was Alter's preface to Brenner's story, " The Way Out ", published in 1919, and set during Turkish and British struggles over Palestine in WWI.

In 1815 the British Institution upset many British artists by a preface to the catalogue of their exhibition of Old Masters, implying rather too strongly that British artists had a lot to learn from them.

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

It featured a preface letter from Dr Richard Beeching, then Chairman of the British Transport Commission, who wrote presciently: " The thousands who read your journal every month derive from it a great deal of pleasure and useful information about the activities of British Railways.

The 2011 edition of British Defence Doctrine ( BDD ) states and explains the principles with the following preface: “ Principles of War guide commanders and their staffs in the planning and conduct of warfare.

In the early 20th-century, George Orwell originally wrote a preface for his book “ Animal Farm ”, which focused on the British self-censorship of the time.

With this meaning of stated intention, British publishing up to at least the middle of the twentieth century distinguished between preface and introduction.

They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.

Lewis's diverse sources for this work include the works of St. Augustine, Dante Aligheri, John Milton, John Bunyan, Emanuel Swedenborg and Lewis Carroll as well as the American science-fiction author whom Lewis mentions in his preface whose name he had forgotten.

American deist Ethan Allen demonstrates this thinking in his work, Reason the Only Oracle of Man ( 1784 ) where he argues in the preface that nearly every philosophical problem is beyond humanity ’ s understanding, including the miracles of Christianity, although he does allow for the immortality of an immaterial soul.

In the preface to The One-Straw Revolution, Wendell Berry wrote that the Natural Farming system would not be directly applicable to most American farms.

The American edition had a preface written by Lionel Trilling.

In the preface of his 1998 book For the Record: Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History, Joel Selvin sums up the importance of Sly and the Family Stone's influence on African American music by stating " there are two types of black music: black music before Sly Stone, and black music after Sly Stone ".

* The American author Armistead Maupin includes a quote from Religio Medici in the preface to the third in his Tales of the City novels, Further Tales of the City, first published in 1982.

Vietnam War-era activists, such as Seymour Melman, referred frequently to the concept, and use continued throughout the Cold War: George F. Kennan wrote in his preface to Norman Cousins's 1987 book The Pathology of Power, " Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to remain, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented.

* Napoleon, Davi, Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater, Iowa State University Press, ( Includes a preface by Prince and a full chapter about the production of Candide.

* Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915 ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944 ); 1992 edition with preface by Eric Foner.

New preface for paperback American edition.

" 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.

A later edition contains a preface relating Sorel's theories to American thought in the 1960s ( Southern Illinois University Press, 1968 ).

Taguba again made national headlines in June, 2008, when he accused the Bush administration of committing war crimes, in a preface to a report by Physicians for Human Rights on prisoner abuse and torture in American military prisons.

The preface to the first American edition of the novel ( MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc, New York, 1977 ) was written by Theodore Sturgeon.

Mencken assaulted the prescriptive grammar of these critics and American " schoolmarms ", arguing, like Samuel Johnson in the preface to his dictionary, that language evolves independently of textbooks.

JL Motley acknowledges his indebtedness to Groen's Archives in the preface to his Rise of the Dutch Republic, at a time when the American historian had not yet made the acquaintance of King William's archivist, and also bore emphatic testimony to Groen's worth as a writer of history in the correspondence published after his death.

His thesis advisor was Marvin Meyers, a historian of Jacksonian America, whom Taylor praised in the preface of his book Writing Early American History ( 2005 ).

When sending his Historical preface and corrections for the American edition in February, Darwin thanked Asa Gray for his comments, as " a Review from a man, who is not an entire convert, if fair & moderately favourable, is in all respects the best kind of Review.

Notably, it contains a preface, titled The Significance of American History, written by future president Woodrow Wilson, Ph. D., LL. D., then president of Princeton University.

As he states in the preface to the play, " is an examination of the American Scene, an attack on the substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty, emasculation, and vacuity ; it is a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy-keen.

Like many of his generation, Bouvier used his preface to justify his work, stating the irrelevance of English legal dictionaries to the American legal system of the United States.