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.

Piers Plowman likely functioned for Crowley as a reformist text with polemic and prophetic qualities ( although he denies the latter in his preface ), but the text and apparatus do not overtly convey that impression.

In the latter half of the decade, Dekker turned once more to pamphlet-writing, revamping old work and writing a new preface to his most popular tract, The Bellman of London.

The New Statistical Account of Scotland ( vol. II ) says that the present town of Lauder existed as a kirk-town in the time of David I ( 1124 – 53 ), and Sir J. D. Marwick says, in his preface to the Records of Convention, that the present town of Lauder existed in the latter half of the twelfth century.

In the preface of the latter, he wrote: " There is in the world a great deal of brilliant, witty political discussion which leads to no settled convictions.

Another work of Gregory's, On the Endowment of Man, was also written at Peter's suggestion and sent to the latter with an appropriate preface as an Easter gift in 397.

A few of the biographical details are found in the preface to the latter work ( which consists of Arnolt the Younger's letter to his father ) and Schlick's reply.

In his preface to this latter work Tzahalon terms himself Yom-Tov ben Moses ha-Sefardi, whence it is clear that the family came originally from Spain, although it is not known when it emigrated or where Tzahalon was born.

In 2003 a 30th-anniversary edition of The Paper Chase was released by Whitston Publishing which contains both a new preface and an afterword by the author, with the latter containing material deleted from the original novel.

In the preface to the latter, Schopenhauer noted: " If I also have at last arrived, and have the satisfaction at the end of my life of seeing the beginning of my influence, it is with the hope that, according to an old rule, it will last longer in proportion to the lateness of its beginning.

To the flourishing state of learning thus introduced into England, and for a short time maintained, King Alfred appears to allude in the preface to his translation of Pope Gregory I's Liber Pastoralis Curae, in the latter part of the ninth century, where he says that it often came into his mind what wise men there were in the country, both laymen and ecclesiastics, in a former age ; how the clergy in those happy times were diligent both to teach and to study, and how foreigners then came hither to acquire learning and wisdom ; whereas now, in his own day, if any Englishman desired to make himself a scholar, he was obliged to go abroad for instruction.

Consequently in a second edition ( lost, except preface ) of his Collectio canonum, prepared under the latter pope, Dionysius Exiguus omitted them ; even in the first edition he admitted that very many in the West were loath to acknowledge them ( quamplurimi quidem assensum non prœbuere facilem ).

The novelisation of the latter by Paul Victor ( Futura, 1978 ) included a preface by Hayles entitled ' The Thinking Behind Atlantis ' in which he explained the origins of the film's central concepts.

The interview has been the source of some minor controversy, centering on claims made in the interview's preface regarding the scope and nature of Flew's beliefs, and his subsequent contradictory statements endorsing atheism, the latter being a misnomer, for Flew clearly no longer supports the inference or verdict of atheism, but rather the evidential method or route by which one may secure such a verdict, i. e., the " Presumption of Atheism " is default, nullified only on the condition that the degree of proof is met.

Among those of the latter interpretation, in the preface to his 1961 Pelican edition, Douglas Bush writes:

While the former source of the word could have preface meaning the same as prologue, the latter strongly implies an introduction written before the body of the book.

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.

Bede wrote a preface for the work, in which he dedicates it to Ceolwulf, king of Northumbria.

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.

Pliny makes clear the fact in the preface to his work that he had checked his facts by reading and comparing the works of others, as well as referring to them by name.

In grateful recognition of that fact, on the fiftieth anniversary ( May 16, 1866 ) of the date of Windischmann's preface to that work, a fund called Die Bopp-Stiftung, for the promotion of the study of Sanskrit and comparative grammar, was established at Berlin, to which liberal contributions were made by his numerous pupils and admirers in all parts of the globe.

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.

However the preface of the work, dictated to Archbishop Anders Sunesen, mentions the Danish conquest of the areas north of the Elbe river in 1208.

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 1822 this volume appeared in a second edition ( really a new work, for, as Grimm himself says in the preface, it cost him little reflection to mow down the first crop to the ground ).

The poem's self-proclaimed fragmentary nature combined with Coleridge's warning about the poem in the preface turns Kubla Khan into an " anti-poem ", a work that lacks structure, order, and leaves the reader confused instead of enlightened.

The preface then provided an origin to both the poem and why it was merely a smaller portion of an intended larger work.

The preface of The Gospel of Luke drawing on historical investigation is believed to have identified the work to the readers as belonging to the genre of history.

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.

Lewis's diverse sources for this work include the works of St. Augustine, Dante Aligheri, John Milton, John Bunyan, Emanuel Swedenborg and Lewis Carroll as well as the American science-fiction author whom Lewis mentions in his preface whose name he had forgotten.

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 ".

* March 1 – Michel de Montaigne signs the preface to his most significant work, Essays.

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.

Accepting the claim of the preface to the Experimenta Nova that the entire work had been essentially completed before March 1663, von Guericke can be fairly credited with inventing a primitive form of frictional electrical machine before 1663.

His most famous work is the Lanting Xu, the preface of a collection of poems written by a number of poets when gathering at Lan Ting near the town of Shaoxing in Zhejiang province and engaging in a game called " qu shui liu shang ".

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.

American deist Ethan Allen demonstrates this thinking in his work, Reason the Only Oracle of Man ( 1784 ) where he argues in the preface that nearly every philosophical problem is beyond humanity ’ s understanding, including the miracles of Christianity, although he does allow for the immortality of an immaterial soul.

He is commonly known as " the painter of light " and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism.

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.

Noah's 1840 preface contained endorsements by Hebrew scholars of the day, all of whom praised the quality of the translation but said nothing to indicate they believed it to be the work referred to in Joshua and 2 Samuel.

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.

The first edition was well received by some reviewers who understood the novel as belonging to medieval fiction, " between 1095, the era of the First Crusade, and 1243, the date of the last ", as the first preface states ; and some referred to Walpole as an " ingenious translator ".

In the preface to the New York Edition of the novel, James referred to several of George Eliot's female protagonists as possible influences on the Portrait.

The statue is referred to as " The Buddha at Kamakura " in several verses that preface the initial chapters of the novel Kim by Rudyard Kipling ( 1901 ).

She is the only female poet referred to in the preface of the Kokin Wakashū, which describes her style as " containing naivety in old style but also delicacy ".

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.

He has been identified with the Thomas Shelton who wrote a sonnet prefixed to the Restitution of Decayed Intelligence ( 1605 ) of Richard Verstegan, who was most likely the friend referred to in Shelton's preface, for there is reason to believe that both of them were then involved in the intrigues of the Roman Catholics in England.

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.

Stekel wrote one of a set of three early ' Psychoanalytic studies of psychical impotence ' referred to approvingly by Freud: ' Freud had written a preface to Stekel's book '.