Jordanes says in the preface to Getica that he obtained them from the librarian for three days in order to read them again ( relegi ).

In his preface, Wilde writes about Caliban, a character from Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

* December 31 – Tycho writes his preface to the Emperor Rudolf II in his book, Mecanica.

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.

In the preface to the first edition of Scènes de la Vie privée, he writes: " The author firmly believes that details alone will henceforth determine the merit of works ….

In the preface to the work, Saxo writes that his patron Absalon, Archbishop of Lund had encouraged him to write a heroic history of the Danes.

In the preface to the third book, Thorndike writes that the list contained therein “ tells anyone who wishes to know whether to use a word in writing, speaking, or teaching how common the word is in standard English reading matter ” ( p. x ), and he further advises that the list can best be employed by teachers if they allow it to guide the decisions they make choosing which words to emphasize during reading instruction.

As Sadie writes in the preface, " The biggest single expansion in the present edition has been in the coverage of 20th-century composers ".

In the preface of the book, Tax Progressivity and Income Inequality, Professor of Economics Joel Slemrod writes,

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 ".

In the preface to the English edition, Zygmund writes:

As Hamelin writes in his preface to this étude, the idea to combine these came from the composer Alistair Hinton, the finale of whose Piano Sonata No. 5 ( 1994 – 95 ) includes a substantial section entitled " Alkanique ".

As she writes in the preface to her book, The Managed Heart: The Commercialization of Human Feeling,

* 1998 Translator: Mark Harman who also writes a preface.

As he writes in the preface to Testimony, Volkov's interviews with Shostakovich consisted of questions to which the composer provided " brief " and " reluctant " answers, and which Volkov compiled in a " mound of shorthand notes.

In his preface to The Secret History of the Mongols, he writes that he was not a master of many languages, but claims to have known Chinese and Japanese fairly well, a good deal of Ainu and Mongolian, and some Hebrew and Syriac.

In the preface, he writes:

Larkin writes in the short preface that the selection is wide rather than deep ; and also notes that for the post-1914 period it is more a collection of poems, than of poets.

Gersch writes in the preface to his book:

In the preface to the biography of Wolff Claus Sybill writes that he could be described as a classic case study for the Nazi representative of the upper bourgeoisie: " Wolff himself is and remains (...)

In his preface to the Heimskringla ( which includes the Ynglinga saga ), Snorri writes:

In the preface, Lin writes that " novel is merely a story of ... how certain habits of living and ways of thinking are formed and how, above all, and women adjust themselves to the circumstances in this earthly life where men strive but gods rule.

She writes in her preface that her writing will appeal to many who are attracted by the charm of style.

In the preface, Dick Gregory ( whose autobiography was entitled Nigger ) writes: " In abolishing and eliminating the Caucasian-Christian philosophical and literary forms while recording his black experiences, this writer has removed himself from their double-standard frames of reference.

With these scenes restored in the revised and expanded edition of 2012, however, the novel ’ s meaning to Armenians is all the more poignant, as Vartan Gregorian writes in the preface, " The Forty Days of Musa Dagh was meant as a memorial set against a new historical phenomenon that had been described as " the murder of a nation ," " the extermination of a race ," and " the assassination of Armenia ..." The novel, in its expanded form, has even more relevance as a document of genocide.

Though the preface initially states Luke ’ s intentions for writing, by closely examining the contents of the work as a whole, scholars have surmised that Luke ’ s purpose is much more complex.

In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.

" And did those feet in ancient time " is a short poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton a Poem, one of a collection of writings known as the Prophetic Books.

The original text is found on the preface Blake printed for inclusion with Milton, a Poem, following the lines beginning " The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid: of Plato & Cicero, which all Men ought to contemn: ..."

In his preface to Jürgen Osterhammel's Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview, Roger Tignor says, " For Osterhammel, the essence of colonialism is the existence of colonies, which are by definition governed differently from other territories such as protectorates or informal spheres of influence.

In 1542 he published a prose satire to which Luther wrote the preface, Der Barfusser Monche Eulenspiegel und Alkoran, a parodic adaptation of the Liber conformitatum of the Franciscan Bartolommeo Rinonico of Pisa, in which the Franciscan order is held up to ridicule.

* Schocken Books, 25 May 1999, Translation: Breon Mitchell, ISBN 978-0-8052-0999-0 Translator's preface is available online

In their 1972 study, The Unknown Orwell, the writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams note that at Eton Blair displayed a " sceptical attitude " to Christian belief, and that: " Shaw's preface to his recently published Androcles and the Lion in which an account of the gospels is set forth, very different in tone from what one would be likely to hear from an Anglican clergyman " was " much more to Blair's own taste.

In the preface to Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion, a collection of global essays, Professor Christine Henseler summarizes it as " a generation whose worldview is based on change, on the need to combat corruption, dictatorships, abuse, AIDS, a generation in search of human dignity and individual freedom, the need for stability, love, tolerance, and human rights for all.

According to the preface the purpose of Luke is to write a historical account, while bringing out the theological significance of the history.

Sade critiqued the genre in the preface of his Reflections on the novel ( 1800 ) which is widely accepted today, stating that the Gothic is " the inevitable product of the revolutionary shock with which the whole of Europe resounded ".

In the preface to the 1977 English translation Murray Rothbard called " The Production of Security " the " first presentation anywhere in human history of what is now called anarcho-capitalism " though admitting that " Molinari did not use the terminology, and probably would have balked at the name.

At priestly ordination the bishop imposes hands upon the deacon who is by that matter and the form of the consecratory Preface ( Liturgy ) | preface ordained to the priesthood.

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

Consult particularly the preface, which is freely drawn upon in this article.

This preface to the Scriptures may serve as a helmeted defensive introduction to all the books which we turn from Hebrew into Latin, so that we may be assured that what is outside of them must be placed aside among the Apocryphal writings.

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.

As Grimm in the preface to his first edition expressly mentioned this essay of Rask, there is every probability that it inspired his own investigations.

An example of this sort of analysis is Marx's understanding of religion, summed up in a passage from the preface to his 1843 Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right:

" 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.

In 1981, Kathleen Wheeler contrasts the Crewe Manuscript note with the Preface: " Contrasting this relatively factual, literal, and dry account of the circumstances surrounding the birth of the poem with the actual published preface, one illustrates what the latter is not: it is not a literal, dry, factual account of this sort, but a highly literary piece of composition, providing the verse with a certain mystique.

He continued by discussing the preface: " despite its obvious undependability as a guide to the actual process of the poem's composition, the preface can still, in Wheeler's words, lead us ' to ponder why Coleridge chose to write a preface ... ' What the preface describes, of course, is not the actual process by which the poem came into being, but an analogue of poetic creation as logos, a divine ' decree ' or fiat which transforms the Word into the world.