E. A. Wallis Budge, in his preface to the second edition of his translation of the Kebra Nagast, claims that Brancaleon was a monk who had come to Ethiopia to convert Emperor Zara Yaqob and debated Abba Giyorgis several times on religious matters ; ( Wallis Budge may have misremembered James Bruce's statement about Abba Giyorgis's opponent in that religious debate, " We are not informed of the name of Abba George's antagonist, but he is thought to have been a Venetian painter, who lived many years after in Abyssinia, and, it is believed, died there " -- explicitly identifying him as Brancaleon in a footnote.

" Hofstadter explains in the preface that his younger sister Molly never developed the ability to speak or understand language.

Pullman's preface to that book explains that the setting is " a universe like ours, but different in many ways ".

The preface explains that the original concept of a general system theory was " Allgemeine Systemtheorie ( or Lehre )", pointing out the fact that " Theorie " ( or " Lehre ") just as " Wissenschaft " ( translated Scholarship ), " has a much broader meaning in German than the closest English words ‘ theory ’ and ‘ science '".

Another important work is the Sefer ha-Mafteaḥ ( Book of the Key ) by Nissim Gaon, which contains a preface explaining the different forms of Talmudic argumentation and then explains abbreviated passages in the Talmud by cross-referring to parallel passages where the same thought is expressed in full.

He explains in his preface to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions that he concocted the concept of paradigm precisely in order to distinguish the social from the natural sciences ( p. x ).

In the preface of Théorie des lois criminelles, Brissot explains that he submitted an outline of the book to Voltaire and quotes his answer from April 13, 1778.

" In Waugh's preface to the 1959 revised edition of Brideshead the author explains the circumstances in which the novel was written, in the six months between December 1943 and June 1944 following a minor parachute accident.

As Durrell explains in his preface to Balthazar, the four novels are an exploration of relativity and the notions of continuum and subject – object relation, with modern love as the theme.

In the preface to the first edition Kant explains what he means by a critique of pure reason: " I do not mean by this a critique of books and systems, but of the faculty of reason in general, in respect of all knowledge after which it may strive independently of all experience.

In the preface, Titelouze explains that this structure makes these Magnificat settings usable for the Benedictus.

LaVey explains his reasons for writing The Satanic Bible in a short preface.

The preface of Book VII explains the terms analysis and synthesis, and the distinction between theorem and problem.

The preface of this book explains the scientific aspects of inner experiences of Surat Shabd Yogis.

Its notes were strongly anti-Protestant, and in its preface it explains its existence by saying that Protestants have been guilty of " casting the holy to dogs and pearls to hogs.

In the preface to the first edition, Sigwart explains that he makes no attempt to appreciate the logical theories of his predecessors ; he intended to construct a theory of logic, complete in itself.

In the book's preface, Watson explains that he is describing his impressions at the time of the events, and not at the time he wrote the book.

The preface explains the author's idea of his character: " A Hero of Our Time, my dear readers, is indeed a portrait, but not of one man.

In the preface, Davies explains that he has been interested in ultimate causes since childhood, having annoyed his parents with unending " why's " about everything, with each answer demanding another " why ," and usually ending with the reply, " Because God made it that way, and that's that!

In the preface to fifth volume Mirza Ghulam Ahmad explains the circumstances which caused the delay in writing the fifth volume.

Jerome's version of the Old Testament was placed between the Greek and Hebrew versions, thus the synagogue and the Eastern church, as the preface explains it, are set like the thieves on this side and on that, with Jesus ( that is, the Roman Church ) in the midst.

In the preface Blanco explains precisely what he did in producing the paraphrase.

In this preface – not published in all / most US-edition – Twain explains the intentions of “ The Gilded Age ”.

The preface to Book I explains why Machiavelli wrote the Discourse.

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 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.

7 From this, one infers that fueros, in the sense interesting for our object, are some laws born of use and of custom ; but we also understand the same word to mean " a collection of laws " or a book that compiles and gathers under a certain order those which will govern the peoples, as one knows from the preface to the Fuero real Fuero ", in which the Lord King Alonso the Learned says, " Understanding that the greater part of our kingdoms have not had fuero up to our time, and rendered judgement based on precedent and orally transmitted custom, separated from the people, and for improper uses without right / law, from which were born many evils and much damage to towns and to men ; and those asking us for mercy that we emend the uses that we found without right / law ; and that we give them fuero so that they would live lawfully from here forward, we have counsel with our court, and with those who know ..." continues at: image: fuero4. JPG < nowiki ></ nowiki >

" My sole object has been ," she wrote in the preface, " to put together all that presented itself to my own heart and mind as most persuasive, consolatory, or elevating, in such a form and order as to be easy of reference, conveniently arranged and divided, and freed from matter either hard to be understood, unattractive, or unprofitable ( to say the least ) for young and pure eyes.

Meaning " to preface ", it specifically refers to the intercoherence ( prerequisite relation ) of subject and object.

The preface states that he had been collecting this information since a young boy.

The preface makes it clear that Ceolwulf had requested the earlier copy, and Bede had asked for Ceolwulf's approval ; this correspondence with the king indicates that Bede's monastery had excellent connections among the Northumbrian nobility.

Warburton's works were edited ( 7 vols., 1788 ) by Richard Hurd with a biographical preface, and the correspondence between the two friends — an important contribution to the literary history of the period — was edited by Samuel Parr in 1808.

Dr Edleston, in his preface to Newton's correspondence with Cotes, justly remarks: " If Flamsteed the Astronomer-Royal had cordially co-operated with him in the humble capacity of an observer in the way that Newton pointed out and requested Of him ... the lunar theory would, if its creator did not overrate his own powers, have been completely investigated, so far as he could do it, in the first few months of 1695, and a second edition of the Principia would probably have followed the execution of the task at no long interval.

The preface makes it clear that Ceolwulf had requested the earlier copy, and Bede had asked for Ceolwulf's approval ; this correspondence with the king indicates that Bede's monastery had excellent connections among the Northumbrian nobility.

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.

While Salieri followed the precepts set forth by Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de ' Calzabigi in the preface to Alceste ; Salieri also drew on some musical ideas from the more traditional opera-seria and even opera buffa, creating a new synthesis in the process.

The preface mentions that Ceolwulf received an earlier draft of the book ; presumably Ceolwulf knew enough Latin to understand it, and he may even have been able to read it.

Bede acknowledged his correspondents in the preface to the Historia Ecclesiastica ; he was in contact with Daniel, the Bishop of Winchester, for information about the history of the church in Wessex, and also wrote to the monastery at Lastingham for information about Cedd and Chad.

In its prologue, the author gratuitously insulted Cervantes, who not surprisingly took offense and responded ; the last half of Chapter LIX and most of the following chapters of Cervantes ' Segunda Parte lend some insight into the effects upon him ; Cervantes manages to work in some subtle digs at Avellaneda's own work, and in his preface to Part II, comes very near to criticizing Avellaneda directly.

Many dismissed this as a joke ; but, in his preface to the second edition, Butler wrote:

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.

Some students of the work argue for an Italian origin, noting phrases in Barnabas which are very similar to phrases used by Dante and suggesting that the author of Barnabas borrowed from Dante's works ; they take the Spanish version's preface to support this conclusion.

* an editorial layer dating from the 1590s ; and comprising, at the least, the Spanish preface and the Arabic annotations,

" Another July 1816 anonymous review, in the Augustan Review, claimed that the poem's descriptions " have much of the Oriental richness and harmony " but also said, in response to the preface, " There seems to be no great harm in dreaming while one sleeps ; but an author really should not thus dream while he is awake, and writing too.

* Yiannopoulos, A. N., The Civil Codes of Louisiana ( reprinted from Civil Law System: Louisiana and Comparative law, A Coursebook: Texts, Cases and Materials, 3d Edition ; similar to version in preface to Louisiana Civil Code, ed.

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.

* Marszalek, John F., Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order, Free Press, 1992, ISBN 0-02-920135-7 ; " reissued with new preface ", Southern Illinois University Press, 2007.

His encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1646 – 76 ) includes numerous examples of Baconian investigative methodology ; its preface even paraphrases lines from Bacon's essay On Truth from his 1605 work The Advancement of Learning.

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.

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.

* For the Train: Five Poems and a Tale ( by Lewis Carroll ; arranged poem order, wrote preface )

A quote from the preface of " The Little Red Book " by Lin Biao ( with his name scratched out ) on the Huayang Palace in Jinan ; photo 2007

This is quoted from the Apologia version of the preface .< ref >, p. 143 as variant preface in C < sup > 2 </ sup > D < sup > 2 </ sup > GL ;, Apologia, I, p. 303 " Ego autem coacervavi omne quod inveni tam de annalibus Romanorum ..", English tr.

* Religio Exculpata, & c., 1684 ( Autore Alitophilo Religionis fluctibus dudum immerso, tandem … emerso ; preface signed J. N. J .; assigned to Fludd ).

3 ( Leipzig: Teubner, 1856 ), pp. 1-40, with preface, pp. iii-v ( Google Books ; HTML )

* On Rhetoric and Rhetorical Figures, an Alphabetical Selection of Phrases, intended to serve as a guide to the acquirement of a pure Attic style — the first example of an Atticist lexicon, mentioned by Suidas in the preface to his lexicon as one of his authorities ;