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.

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 ).

But whereas Newton vehemently denied gravity was an inherent power of matter, his collaborator Roger Cotes made gravity also an inherent power of matter, as set out in his famous preface to the Principia's 1713 second edition which he edited, and contra Newton himself.

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.

Gluck ( whose remarks on the function of overtures in the preface to Alceste are historic ) based himself on Italian models, of loose texture.

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

He is the author of Historiarum Philippicarum libri XLIV, a work described by himself in his preface as a collection of the most important and interesting passages from the voluminous Historiae philippicae et totius mundi origines et terrae situs, written in the time of Augustus by Pompeius Trogus.

F. Núñez de la Vega, bishop of Chiapa, says, in the preface to his Synodal Constitutions, that in the visit which he made to his diocese towards the end of the last century the late 1600s, he found many ancient calendars of the Chiapanese, and an old manuscript in the language of that country, made by the Indians themselves, in which it was said, according to their ancient tradition, that a certain person named Votan was present at that great building, which was made by order of his uncle, in order to mount up to heaven ; that then every people was given its language, and that Votan himself was charged by God to make the division of the lands of Anahuac.

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 ".

By 1886, Nietzsche himself had reservations about the work, and he published a preface in the 1886 edition where he re-evaluated some of his main concerns and ideas in the text.

In the preface to the Elements of Logic, Whately wrote that the substance of the treatise was drawn from an article written by himself, entitled Logic, which had already been published in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana.

The way to these studies had been pointed out in the preface to Kugler's Handbook of Italian Painting by Sir Charles Eastlake, who had intended pursuing the subject himself.

Johnson himself makes it clear in the preface that Tom was long known by " old and young ... Bachelors and Maids ... and Shepheard and the young Plow boy ".

* written by himself, with a preface by P. V.

During this time, Heywood was extremely prolific ; in his preface to The English Traveller ( 1633 ) he describes himself as having had " an entire hand or at least a maine finger in two hundred and twenty plays ".

Elyot himself says in the preface to his Dictionary that he was educated under the paternal roof, and was from the age of twelve his own tutor.

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.

The location of his birth, Staffelstein, can be determined with certainty, since he gives information about himself in the preface to his book, " Coß ".

The licence is dated December 1663, and the preface shows that Thévenot himself arranged it for publication before leaving on his second voyage.

In Book V, after an interesting preface concerning regular polygons, and containing remarks upon the hexagonal form of the cells of honeycombs, Pappus addresses himself to the comparison of the areas of different plane figures which have all the same perimeter ( following Zenodorus's treatise on this subject ), and of the volumes of different solid figures which have all the same superficial area, and, lastly, a comparison of the five regular solids of Plato.

In the same preface is included ( a ) the famous problem known by Pappus's name, often enunciated thus: Having given a number of straight lines, to find the geometric locus of a point such that the lengths of the perpendiculars upon, or ( more generally ) the lines drawn from it obliquely at given inclinations to, the given lines satisfy the condition that the product of certain of them may bear a constant ratio to the product of the remaining ones ; ( Pappus does not express it in this form but by means of composition of ratios, saying that if the ratio is given which is compounded of the ratios of pairs one of one set and one of another of the lines so drawn, and of the ratio of the odd one, if any, to a given straight line, the point will lie on a curve given in position ); ( b ) the theorems which were rediscovered by and named after Paul Guldin, but appear to have been discovered by Pappus himself.

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.

He stated in the preface that he had compiled 20, 000 facts from 2000 works by over 200 authors, and added many others from his own experience.

In his preface to the 1941 edition of The War in the Air, Wells had stated that his epitaph should be: " I told you so.

Sartre, who stated in his preface to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth that, “ To shoot down a European is to kill two birds with one stone, to destroy an oppressor and the man he oppresses at the same time: there remains a dead man and a free man ”, has been criticized by Anderson and Michael Walzer for supporting the killing of European civilians by the FLN during the Algerian War.

In an interview, Smith stated that Kurnaz's family has contacted her and that she wrote a short preface for the book that he was writing.

In the preface to the fourth edition he stated his belief that proportional representation would '... end the evils of corruption, violent discontent and restricted power of selection or voter choice '.

There he is stated to have been the son of Cerdic, and also ( in the regnal list in the preface ) to have been the son of Cerdic's son, Creoda.

In the preface to Giants and Dwarfs: Essays, 1960 – 1990, he stated that his education " began with Freud and ended with Plato.

Fred Patten, in writing the preface to the collection " Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews ", stated that fans were still debating whether " Ah!

As stated in the preface to Chief Justice Warren Burger's majority opinion, the Appellant's conviction was specifically based on his conduct in causing five unsolicited advertising brochures to be sent through the mail in an envelope addressed to a restaurant in Newport Beach, California.

Each remedy was tested thoroughly, the preface stated: “ Of the accuracy of the analytical data there can be no question ; the investigation has been carried out with great care by a skilled analytical chemist .” The book did lead to the end of some of the quack cures, but some survived the book by several decades.

In the preface of the book it was stated that " the military victories of the PVA " were won " under the correct leadership of the CCP and of Comrade Mao Zedong ": Peng authorized the text after removing the phrase " and of Comrade Mao Zedong ".

The difference between Diez's method and that of his predecessors is well stated by him in the preface to his dictionary.

" This quote appears in an extended form just before the preface of Stevenson's Ethics and Language .</ ref > Influenced by the growth of analytic philosophy and logical positivism in the 20th century, the theory was stated vividly by A. J. Ayer in his 1936 book Language, Truth and Logic, but its development owes more to C. L. Stevenson.

In the preface he stated that " to make up a miscellany, some poems written by different authors are inserted.

Explaining this innovation, Macadam stated in the preface to the 1947 volume that it was “ a recognition of the need for specialisation in these complicated times ”.

A 2, 500-copy second edition of The Scarlet Letter included a preface by Hawthorne dated March 30, 1850, that stated he had decided to reprint his introduction " without the change of a word ...

In his preface, Zhu Xi stated that " the Analects and the Mencius are the most important works for students pursuing the Way ...

Although he stated in the preface that it was of the hand of Polydore Vergil, there has been some debate about the authorship of the work.

In 1877, in the preface of L ' Assommoir, he stated that he was going to write " about twenty novels ".

Dean settled the defamation suit against Colodny and his publisher, St. Martin's Press, on terms which Dean stated in the book's preface he could not divulge under the terms of the settlement, other than stating that " the Deans were satisfied.

" In the footnote to this portion of the preface, Dean stated that the federal judge handling the case forced a settlement with Liddy.

In the preface to The Age of Fable he stated " Our work is not for the learned, nor for the theologian, nor for the philosopher, but for the reader of English literature, of either sex, who wishes to comprehend the allusions so frequently made by public speakers, lecturers, essayists, and poets, and those which occur in polite conversation.

In its preface he stated that although the work was the fruit of many years of study, it could be read through in half an hour.