* Goodspeed, " The translators to the Reader ": Goodspeed's thesis on the Preface to the King James Version, 1611

Locke claims in the " Preface " to the Two Treatises that its purpose is to justify William III's ascension to the throne, though Peter Laslett suggests that the bulk of the writing was instead completed between 1679-1680 ( and subsequently revised until Locke was driven into exile in 1683 ).

He claims in the Preface that " in the years between 1780 and 1832 most English working people came to feel an identity of interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from ( and usually opposed to ) theirs.

Without the Preface, the two stanzas form two different poems that have some relationship to each other but lack unity.

When the Preface is dropped, the poem seems to compare the act of poetry with the might of Kubla Khan instead of the loss of inspiration causing the work to have a more complex depiction of the poetic power.

Although, my son, I have used the word prophet, I would not attribute to myself a title of such lofty sublimity – Preface to César, 1555 ( see caption to illustration above )

" ( 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.

This new editorial policy was stated in the Preface to the first anthology to appear under her leadership: " In this new book we have followed a slightly different arrangement to that of our former Anthology.

In his Preface he refers to " Teuffel's admirable history, without which many chapters in the present work could not have attained completeness " and also gives credit to Wagner.

Francis Palgrave dedicated to Tennyson his Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics ( MacMillan 1861 ) declaring in the Preface that ' It would have been hence a peculiar pleasure and pride to dedicate what I have endeavoured to make a true national Anthology of three centuries to Henry Hallam '.

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.

In the Preface to the Meditations, Descartes asks the reader " not to pass judgment on the Meditations until they have been kind enough to read through all these objections and my replies to them .” Thus, this dialogue could be seen as an integral part of Descartes ' views expressed in the Meditations.

With the exception of a Preface to the Sermons of Dr Whichcote, one of the Cambridge Platonists or latitudinarians, published in 1698, Shaftesbury appears to have printed nothing himself till 1708.

The title of his first collection apparently was a mild disappointment to Roughead, stating in his " Personal Preface " to his third collection, Glengarry's Way and Other Studies, that "... I have always considered that my venture suffered in its baptism ... of those three fateful words two at least were unhappily chosen.

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.

Cudworth remarks in his Preface that he would have ignored hylozoism had he not been aware that a new version of it would shortly be published.

The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas is intended to teach an audience what readers of the Preface are assumed to have learned.

* Preface: is the great prayer of thanksgiving for the work of Salvation or for some special aspect of it ; have been allowed to be used in France since 1978, in Italy since 1980, and the English version was approved in 1995.

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence .< p > Foucault, Preface to the 1961 edition.

However, as noted in the Author's Preface, " his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in ; and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligent care has been taken to select such words as might least interrupt the effect of the beautiful English tongue in which he wrote: therefore, words introduced into our language since his time have been as far as possible avoided.

The first British English language edition, titled The Jewish Peril, whose Preface is dated, London, December 2, 1919, was published anonymously, but has subsequently been discovered to have been translated by George Shanks, an employee of The Morning Post ( London ).

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.

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.

Marx's clearest formulation of his " Materialist Conception of History " was in the 1859 Preface to his book " A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy ," whose relevant passage is reproduced here:

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.

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.

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 ).

* Preface to the French high wire artist Philippe Petit's 1985 book, On The High Wire.

* 1650: A Discourse upon Gondibert, an heroick poem ( or simply Gondibert ), originally published unfinished, then published again in 1651 in its final form and included Davenant's " Preface to his most honour ’ d friend Mr. Hobs " and " The Answer of Mr. Hobbes to Sir William D ’ Avenant ’ s Preface before Gondibert " by Thomas Hobbes, to whom the book was dedicated ; the official second edition in 1653 also contained " Certain Verses, written by severall of the author ’ s friends "

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.

A few sections of the book, such as the Preface, Epilogue, and some reflections on morality are generally assumed to come from the author, not from Jason.

In the Preface to the book, Foster begins by asking whether postmodernism exists at all and what it could even mean.

After the two Prefaces ( the A edition Preface of 1781 and the B edition Preface of 1787 ) and the Introduction, the book is divided into the Doctrine of Elements and the Doctrine of Method:

* Preface to von Mises ' book Epistemological Problems of Economics

The book was reissued in 2005 by the prestigious Modern Library, a division of Random House, with an Introduction by Greg Bear and a Preface by Mark Cotta Vaz, and by Penguin in the US.

The following quotations from the Preface of the first book (" Strategy and Computers: Information Systems as Competitive Weapons ") establishes the basic idea behind the notion of SIS:

The reaction of reviewers and readers to the first two books in the series, Shikasta and The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five ( 1980 ), prompted Lessing to write in the Preface to the third book, The Sirian Experiments ( 1980 ):

* On the first anniversary of Rugova ’ s death, the Kosovo Presidency published a book entitled President Rugova, with a Preface by President Fatmir Sejdiu (‘ The First Statesman of Kosovo ’) and a long introduction by Sabri Hamiti (‘ Memento for Rugova ’).

Lessig writes at the end of the Preface, “… the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance between anarchy and control.

A book of the complete scripts from all three series plus the Hogmanay and Burns Night specials was published in hardback by Preface Publishing on 28 August 2008 entitled The Doings of Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea ?.

MacIntyre writes the following of this shift in the Preface to the book: " Although there is indeed good reason to repudiate important elements in Aristotle's biology, I now judge that I was in error in supposing an ethics independent of biology to be possible.

The book consists of a Preface ( written after the rest was completed ), an Introduction, and six major divisions ( of greatly varying size ): Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, Reason, Spirit, Religion, and Absolute Knowledge.

The First Preface is a rather scathing review of the book.