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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.
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* The Making of the English Working Class London: Victor Gollancz ( 1963 ); 2nd edition with new postscript, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, third edition with new preface 1980.
Moreover, he noted in the preface to his third edition a point that was to become a feature of Tasmanian politics:
In the preface to the Snark, Carroll, making fun of his recycling for the third time the first stanza of " Jabberwocky ",
For the twenty-first century, the third edition, The New Fowler ’ s Modern English Usage ( 1996 ), was revised and published as Fowler ’ s Modern English Usage ( 2004 ), the editor of which, Robert Burchfield, in the preface acknowledges that, while " Fowler ’ s name remains on the title-page.
In the 1947 preface to the third edition of Science and Sanity, Korzybski wrote, " We need not blind ourselves with the old dogma that ' human nature cannot be changed ,' for we find that it can be changed.
Korzybski wrote in the preface to the third edition of Science and Sanity ( 1947 ) that general semantics " turned out to be an empirical natural science.
Neither expedient prevented the play from being " silenc'd on the third day ," as Tate wrote in his preface.
In 1930 there was a third edition, containing an added preface and a slightly different selection of stories with slightly different ordering.
He was imprisoned three times: in 1645 for an injudicious preface to his Golden Grove ; again in Chepstow castle, from May to October 1655, on what charge does not appear ; and a third time in the Tower in 1657, because of the indiscretion of his publisher, Richard Royston, who had decorated his Collection of Offices with a print representing Christ in the attitude of prayer.
Malebranche replied in a short preface added to that second volume, and then, in the 1678 third edition, he added 50 % to the already considerable size of the book with a sequence of ( eventually ) seventeen Elucidations.
The preface to the second edition ( 1833 ) and the third ( 1838 ) aimed at a vindication of his principles against contemporary criticism.
* The American author Armistead Maupin includes a quote from Religio Medici in the preface to the third in his Tales of the City novels, Further Tales of the City, first published in 1982.
A posthumous third edition with a preface by Théophile Gautier and including 14 previously unpublished poems was issued in 1868.
Automatic writing as a spiritual practice was reported by Hyppolyte Taine in the preface to the third edition of his " De l ' intelligence, published in 1878.
This work from the third quarter of the 12th century, appears as a form of " preface " in a great number of manuscripts of Quatre fils Aymon.
The first printing was the third product of the Stephen Day ( sometimes spelled Daye ) press, and consisted of a hundred and forty-eight small quarto leaves, including a twelve-page preface, " The Psalmes in Metre ," " An Admonition to the Reader ," and an extensive list of errata headed " Faults escaped in printing.
His wife, Doris Mary Stenton, wrote a preface to the third edition of Anglo-Saxon England, published after his death, and edited Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England Being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton, published in 1970.
in the third edition, published in 2000, he wrote a new preface in which he did revise, though not reverse, his opinion of the authenticity of Hitler Speaks:
However, the third edition, published in 1875 ( i. e., after Sikdar's death ) did not contain that preface, so that Sikdar's memorable contribution was de-recognized.
According to Clarke's preface to the book, the book was his third collection of short stories, which were written between 1953 and 1957 in such diverse spots as New York, Miami, Colombo, London and Sydney.
A third revision was published in 2003 by Pen & Sword with a preface by Martin Middlebrook.
His main purpose was to modernize and reinterpret Christianity ; he says in the preface to the third edition of the book: " I have written it solely in the service of evangelical truth, to win to the truth those especially who have been most unhappily alienated from the church and its interests, in a great measure through the fault of a reactionary party, blinded by hierarchical aims.
Rutter's preface to the score includes the following discussion regarding the authenticity of the third version:
In an ( anonymous ) autobiographical preface written in the third person that only appeared in the 10th edition, Chambers remarked that " He had heard of the hypothesis of Lamarck ; but it seemed to him to proceed upon a vicious circle, and he dismissed it as wholly inadequate to account for the existence of animated species.
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* Orwell's original preface to the book
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.
In his preface to this book, Thompson set out his approach to writing history from below:
In the preface to the first edition of his book, Butler specified:
It was in the aftermath of 1968 that Guattari met Gilles Deleuze at the University of Vincennes and began to lay the ground-work for the soon to be infamous Anti-Oedipus ( 1972 ), which Michel Foucault described as " an introduction to the non-fascist life " in his preface to the book.
Gollancz feared the second half would offend readers and added a disculpatory preface to the book while Orwell was in Spain.
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.
Both prefaces were addressed to Theophilus, and the preface of Acts explicitly references " my former book " about the life of Jesus.
This would also explain the 22 years between the last event described in the last book ( Book 16 ) and the 1208 event described in the preface.
As Pólya notes in the preface, Professor Bowden carefully followed a tape recording of a course Pólya gave several times at Stanford in order to pull a book together.
The preface of the book begins with:
Pullman's preface to that book explains that the setting is " a universe like ours, but different in many ways ".
The book continues the history of the Nephites and the Lamanites " according to the records of Helaman, who was the son of Helaman, and also according to the records of his sons, even down to the coming of Christ " ( The Book of Helaman, preface ).
Kent Bromley, in his preface to Peter Kropotkin's book The Conquest of Bread, considered early French socialist Charles Fourier to be the founder of the libertarian branch of socialist thought, as opposed to the authoritarian socialist ideas of Babeuf and Buonarroti.
This claim was made by Jiao Yu in his Huolongjing Quanzhi ( Fire-drake Manual in One Complete Volume ), his preface written in 1412 AD ( although the book was originally published in the mid 14th century ), and that Zhuge had used not only " fire weapons " but land mines in the Battle of Hulugu Valley against the forces of Sima Yi and his son Sima Zhao of the Wei Kingdom.
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.
" Furthermore, the preface indicates that the book was first printed in 1602.
Ockley maintained that a knowledge of Oriental literature was essential to the proper study of theology, and in the preface to his first book, the Introductio ad linguas orientates ( 1706 ), he urges the importance of the study.
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 ".
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 ".
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.
On 2 January 1897 Gladstone wrote to Francis Hirst on being unable to write a preface to a book on liberalism: " I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism ".
The preface of the book describes how Zhu travelled around China for 20 years as a teacher of mathematics.
* December 31 – Tycho writes his preface to the Emperor Rudolf II in his book, Mecanica.
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