* Karl Benrath's German biography, translated into English by Helen Zimmern, with a preface by the Rev.

It seems most natural to preface the discussion of the law with the biography of the legislator, while the transition from Joseph to the legislation, from the statesman who has nothing to do with the divine laws to the discussion of these laws themselves, is forced and abrupt.

He retired from the bar in 1870 and spent the rest of his life in charitable and literary work, in particular an abridgment of his father in law's seven volume biography of Scott with a preface dedicated to Gladstone.

Following Dumas's lead in his preface, Eugène d ' Auriac ( de la Bibliothèque Royale ) in 1847 was able to write the biography of d ' Artagnan: d ' Artagnan, Capitaine-Lieutenant des Mousquetaires – Sa vie aventureuse – Ses duels – etc.

* Louisa Charlotte Tyndall, his wife, wrote an 8-page biography of John Tyndall that appeared in 1903 as the preface to one of his books.

Historical novelist Mary Renault, in the preface to her biography of Alexander " Fire from Heaven ", discusses the various sources which she studied in preparation for her work, expressing considerable exasperation with Curtius who " had access to invaluable primary sources, now lost ", which in her opinion he misunderstood and garbled.

Staying on in Accra, Dorothy Pizer wrote a preface for a French edition of Pan-Africanism or Communism and began research for a biography of Padmore, although, as she told Nancy Cunard, she was frustrated by his habit of destroying his personal papers and not talking about his past.

Fitzstephen also wrote an interesting account of London in the 12th century, which was included in Becket's biography as a preface, " Descriptio Nobilissimi Civitatis Londoniae ".

Weis ' biography, with a new preface about the case and his letter of appeal to the Home Secretary, appeared in 2001, as did the film Another Life, which told their story, and in which Natasha Little played Edith Thompson, Nick Moran played Percy Thompson, and Ioan Gruffudd played Freddy Bywaters.

His biography is given by le Beau in the Histoire de l ' Académie royale des Inscriptions ( xxix., 372, published 1764 ), and by H. Cocheris, in the preface to his edition.

He edited the memoir for publication, to keep Parker's language, and added a detailed biography in the preface.

Roland Bainton in " Here I Stand after a Quarter of a Century ," his preface for the 1978 edition of his Luther biography, concludes: " I am happy that the Church of Rome has allowed some talk of removing the excommunication of Luther.

In the preface to his Getica, Jordanes writes that he is interrupting his work on the Romana at the behest of a brother Castalius, who apparently knew that Jordanes had had the twelve volumes of the History of the Goths by Cassiodorus at home.

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 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.

Alfred lamented in the preface to his translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care that " learning had declined so thoroughly in England that there were very few men on this side of the Humber who could understand their divine services in English, or even translate a single letter from Latin into English: and I suppose that there were not many beyond the Humber either ".

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.

However others, pointing to Marx's encounter with late 19th-century Russian populism and Marx and Engels's preface to the second Russian edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( 1882 ), have argued that Marx evinced a growing conviction in his late writings that revolution could in fact emerge first in Russia.

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.

Six years later, in October 1769, Lavater sent Mendelssohn his German translation of Charles Bonnet's essay on Christian Evidences, with a preface where he publicly challenged Mendelssohn to refute Bonnet or if he could not then to " do what wisdom, the love of truth and honesty must bid him, what a Socrates would have done if he had read the book and found it unanswerable ".

In its preface, Dawkins states that he wrote the book " to persuade the reader, not just that the Darwinian world-view happens to be true, but that it is the only known theory that could, in principle, solve the mystery of our existence.

Roth wrote in the preface to the book's 30th anniversary edition, " With clarity and with crudeness, and a great deal of exuberance, the embryonic writer who was me wrote these stories in his early 20's, while he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, a soldier stationed in New Jersey and Washington, and a novice English instructor back at Chicago following his Army discharge ... In the beginning it simply amazed him that any truly literate audience could seriously be interested in his store of tribal secrets, in what he knew, as a child of his neighborhood, about the rites and taboos of his clan — about their aversions, their aspirations, their fears of deviance and defection, their underlying embarrassments and their ideas of success.

Vietnam War-era activists, such as Seymour Melman, referred frequently to the concept, and use continued throughout the Cold War: George F. Kennan wrote in his preface to Norman Cousins's 1987 book The Pathology of Power, " Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to remain, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented.

An annotated copy of Newton's Principia was published in 1742 by Fathers le Seur and Jacquier of the Franciscan Minims, two Catholic mathematicians, with a preface stating that the author's work assumed heliocentrism and could not be explained without the theory.

Boston publishing house Phillips and Samson agreed to print the work in book form, if Jacobs could convince Willis or Harriet Beecher Stowe to provide a preface.

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.

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.

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.

The portion of the preface referred to is substantially the following: " Before we could finish the task entrusted to us of editing our Logic, to which we were bound by many promises, certain German publishers fraudulently brought out a work professing to be from us, abounding in errors and inaccuracies which were really their own.

Therefore, these two portions of the preface could have been written by any of its members, but they, like the other prefatory materials, were most likely written by Pope himself.

Boston publishing house Phillips and Samson agreed to print the work in book form if Jacobs could convince Willis or Harriet Beecher Stowe to provide a preface.

Boring dated the preface December 6, 1941, the day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor because this was the last day “ pure scholarship could be undertaken with a clear conscious ”( p. 47 ).

Her preface illuminates the role of Padel ’ s grandmother, Nora Barlow, who in editing Darwin's Autobiography restored a passage in which Darwin said he did not see how anyone could wish the doctrine of hell to be true ; this had been deleted by the first editor, Darwin's son Francis, at his mother's request.

The book acquired the title " Fleta " because its preface contains a remark that it could be called " Fleta " as it was written in " Fleta ".

" The play aroused a storm of hostility ," Ibsen wrote in its preface three years later, " more violent and more widespread than most books could boast of having evoked in a community the vast majority of whose members commonly regard matters of literature as being of small concern.

Although Morals and Dogma is an esoteric book, it was not a secret one ; Pike's original preface was clear that any Mason could own the book, but only Scottish Rite Masons would be encouraged to own one.

In fact, Sargent himself admitted that macroeconomic policy could have nontrivial effects, even under the rational expectations assumption, in the preface to the 1987 edition of his textbook Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory:

He was one of six waka poets referred in the preface in kana to Kokin Wakashū by Ki no Tsurayuki, and has been named as the hero of The Tales of Ise, whose hero was an anonym in itself but most of whose love affairs could be attributed to Narihira.

The fifth anniversary edition of included a new preface which included these words: This ‘ Of the many battles I could have written about, I chose to focus on eight which, to a greater or lesser degree, I face myself ’.