On 10 August, More wrote to the St. James Chronicle to protest that she “ never saw, heard, or read, a single line of Mrs. Cowley ’ s Tragedy .” In her preface to Albina, Cowley allows that the theatre managers, who in those days also acted as script editors, may have inadvertently given More her ideas: “ Amidst the croud of Plots, and Stage Contrivances, in which a Manager is involv ’ d, recollection is too frequently mistaken for the suggestions of imagination ” in original.

" 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.

The editors claimed in the preface that the work had seven advantages overits rivals:

Each book has a preface by the editors, and each story is preceded by a short introduction, focusing on other works by the story's author.

The editors decide about the composition of the proceedings, the order of the papers, and produce the preface and possibly other pieces of text.

In a preface to the Discourses, addressed to Lucius Gellius, Arrian states that " whatever I heard him say I used to write down, word for word, as best I could, endeavouring to preserve it as a memorial, for my own future use, of his way of thinking and the frankness of his speech.

In her preface to Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, Cavendish states that she expects readers to say that her practice of writing prolifically is a disease.

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.

In the preface to his book The World As Will And Idea, Schopenhauer writes that one who " has also received and assimilated the sacred primitive Indian wisdom, then he is the best of all prepared to hear what I have to say to him ".

These revisions of the Vulgate allowed Dr Worthington, in the preface, to say: " we have again conferred this English translation and conformed it to the most perfect Latin Edition.

Adams ' preface states, " Lest any should suppose that I set my wits to work to invent the cruelties of Genshed slave trader, I say here that all lie within my knowledge and some-would they did not-within my experience ", which may refer to certain anecdotes recounted in his autobiography, The Day Gone By.

" 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.

In the preface to his book Educational Psychology: A Cognitive View, he says that “ If had to reduce all of educational psychology to just one principle, would say this: The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows.

In the preface to the Chansonnier de la République there are questions that the French Republic poses to the world: " What will the ferocious reactionaries, who accuse France of unity, say when they see them equal to the heroes of antiquity in singing the Carmagnole?

" A comedy, he went on to say, must be " a representation of familiar people ," and the preface is critical of drama that features characters whose action violates nature.

's & Cassell's Weekly foresaw no difficulties for The Well: " One cannot say what effect this book will have on the public attitude of silence or derision, but every reader will agree with Mr. Havelock Ellis in the preface, that ' the poignant situations are set forth with a complete absence of offence.

*" How To Live on Christ " a pamphlet by Harriet Beecher Stowe, taken from her Introduction to Chistopher Dean's " Religion As It Should Be or The Remarkable Experience and Triumphant Death of Ann Thane Peck " published in 1847 Hudson Taylor sent a pamphlet using the words of this preface out to all the missionaries of the China Inland Mission in 1869.

To The Core of Your Experience, Luminas Press, 1989, preface by Ron Kurtz.

Erkes 1950 ) has a preface written by Ge Xuan (, 164-244 AD ), granduncle of Ge Hong, and scholarship dates this version to around the 3rd century AD.

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.

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.

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 " His Last Bow ", Holmes has retired to a small farm on the Sussex Downs in 1903 – 1904, as chronicled by Watson in his preface to the series of stories entitled " His Last Bow.

With the modern foundations for a general theory of systems following the World Wars, Ervin Laszlo, in the preface for Bertalanffy's book Perspectives on General System Theory, maintains that the translation of " general system theory " from German into English has " wrought a certain amount of havoc ".

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 '".

However, all people are influenced and act as influences, and ironically, the book itself may influence its reader, though the preface paradoxically states that no artist, in their work, " desires to prove anything " or has " ethical sympathies ".

Its preface begins with this passage: Never was such a band of cricketers gathered for any tour as has assembled to do honour to the greatest of all players in the present Memorial Biography.

" Luther also did justice to Melanchthon's teachings, praising one year before his death in the preface to his own writings Melanchthon's revised Loci above them and calling Melanchthon " a divine instrument which has achieved the very best in the department of theology to the great rage of the devil and his scabby tribe.

The 11th century only has been treated in detail by Louis Halphen, in Le Comté d ' Anjou au XI < sup > e </ sup > siècle ( Paris, 1906 ), which has a preface with bibliography and an introduction dealing with the history of Anjou in the 10th century.

Regarding article 1 of the preface of Dei Verbum, Joseph Ratzinger writes, " The brief form of the Preface and the barely concealed illogicalities that it contains betray clearly the confusion from which it has emerged.

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.

The preface evaluates 1 as terse, but good, while 2 has missing and erroneous tone marks.

in Quantity for the Price of Seven " Richardson later made it up to the public with " deferred Restorations " of the fourth edition of the novel being printed in larger print with eight volumes and a preface that reads: " It is proper to observe with regard to the present Edition that it has been thought fit to restore many Passages, and several Letters which were omitted in the former merely for shortening-sake.

In his preface to the New York Edition text of the novel, James placed this book at the top of his achievements, which has occasioned some critical disagreement.

The Wretched of the Earth was first published in 1961 by François Maspero and has a preface by Jean-Paul Sartre.

( c ) Of another bilingual version of Greek canons, undertaken at the instance of Pope Hormisdas, only the preface has been preserved.

Professor David Dumville, enquiring into the stemmatics of the recensions ( he has published the Vatican version, ) has branded Nennian preface ( Prefatio Nennii ) a late forgery, believes the work underwent several anonymous revisions before reaching the forms that now survive in the various families of manuscripts.

" The preface has evidently been prepared by some one who had before him the completed text of the treatise.

Barbeyrac's preface appears in this fourth edition with the title: ' Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Science of Morality, and the Progress It has Made in the World, From the Earliest Times Down to the Publication of This Work '.

Frithegod's verse Life of Wilfrid has a preface that was written by Oda, in which the archbishop claimed that he rescued the relics from Ripon, which he described as " decayed " and " thorn-covered ".

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.