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.

Some years later, he wrote a forcible preface to a translation of the New Testament issued at his command by his private secretary, Hieronymus Emser, as an offset to Luther's version.

Some 156 fables appear, collected from Romulus, Avianus and other sources, accompanied by a commentarial preface and moralising conclusion, and 205 woodcuts.

Strype also published, besides a number of single sermons, an edition of John Lightfoot's Works ( 1684 ); and in 1700 Some genuine Remains of John Lightfoot ... with a large preface concerning the author.

Some years afterwards he edited and wrote a preface to the Queen's Leaves from a Journal of our Life in the Highlands ( 1868 ).

In the preface of his Bible, Webster wrote: " Some words have fallen into disuse ; and the signification of others, in current popular use, is not the same now as it was when they were introduced into the version.

Some have questioned this because the anonymous 1923 publication crediting Marsden as the translator in the pamphlet's preface occurred three years after Marsden's death on October 28, 1920.

Some of her works include The First Time in History ( preface by Leon Trotsky ) ( 1924 ), and Children of Revolution ( 1925 ).

* The Aftermath of Battle: With the Red Cross in France ( 1916 ) ( preface to Edward D. Toland's autobiography )

Remarque comments in the preface that " Quiet on the Western Front will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

R A Rebholz in his preface to Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Complete Poems, comments, ' the problem of determining which poems Wyatt wrote is as yet unsolved '.

The translator of the 1840 edition was not published, but indicated as an eminent Jewish scholar in Britain in the comments of one of the four certificating Hebraist scholars to the publisher in the preface to the 2nd editions:

The preface to this work comments that ' we consider ourselves happy if, in giving them an attraction to useful lessons which are suited to their age, we have given them an aversion to the profane songs which are often put into their mouths and which only serve to corrupt their innocence.

* Original text of Thirty-Six Stratagems ( Simplified Chinese ) With comments and explanations to the preface, six chapters, and afterword

* Healy " reconstructs " the Fourth International documents and comments by participants in fiasco ( preface ) New York: Socialist Workers Party 1966

In a new preface for the 2004 edition of The Occult Roots ... Goodrick-Clarke comments that in 1985, when his book first appeared, " Nazi ' black magic ' was regarded as a topic for sensational authors in pursuit of strong sales.

A second edition appeared in the following year with extra commendatory verses in Latin and English, some of which bore the names of Nahum Tate, Thomas Otway, Aphra Behn, Richard Duke, and Edmund Waller ; and when Dryden published his translations from Theocritus, Lucretius, and Horace, he made flattering comments on Creech's work in the preface.

When sending his Historical preface and corrections for the American edition in February, Darwin thanked Asa Gray for his comments, as " a Review from a man, who is not an entire convert, if fair & moderately favourable, is in all respects the best kind of Review.

History does not record the reason for this, and St. Jerome reports, in the preface to the Vulgate version of Daniel, This thing ' just ' happened.

Interestingly, in the preface, Paulhan goes out of his way to appear as if he does not know who wrote the book.

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.

She learns later — in Book 83, December 29, 1878 — from her father ( but does not apparently accept his statement, as she ignores it here in her preface ) that she was a full-term baby, suggesting that she was conceived before her parents had married and that all the mystification about her date of birth was intended to cover up that embarrassment.

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.

In addition to using his writing to critique society, Wu also took pride in the worldly nature of his work, as opposed to the more fantastic writings of some contemporaries ; in the preface to Yuding Animals he wrote, " My book does not just deal with the supernatural ; it deals with the foibles of men too.

In the same preface is included ( a ) the famous problem known by Pappus's name, often enunciated thus: Having given a number of straight lines, to find the geometric locus of a point such that the lengths of the perpendiculars upon, or ( more generally ) the lines drawn from it obliquely at given inclinations to, the given lines satisfy the condition that the product of certain of them may bear a constant ratio to the product of the remaining ones ; ( Pappus does not express it in this form but by means of composition of ratios, saying that if the ratio is given which is compounded of the ratios of pairs one of one set and one of another of the lines so drawn, and of the ratio of the odd one, if any, to a given straight line, the point will lie on a curve given in position ); ( b ) the theorems which were rediscovered by and named after Paul Guldin, but appear to have been discovered by Pappus himself.

The narrator identifies him as the hero of the novel in the opening chapter ( as does the author in the preface ).

The film does not mention that Joan was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1909 and canonized in 1920 ( neither does the play, except in Shaw's preface ).

In later editions, he added a preface pointing out that new scientific discoveries have rendered some locations and concepts obsolete: Mercury does not only present one side to the Sun, and Venus is not covered by a global ocean, for example.

The translation was undertaken at Alfred's command by Werferth, Bishop of Worcester, with the king merely furnishing a preface.

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

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.

Since both of us refused our names it was published anonymously, Colet merely commending it in a preface.

Aside from Raphael Holinshed who merely quotes John Bale, the only sixteenth-century references to " Robert Langland " as the author of Piers Plowman come from Bale and Crowley in his preface to the various impressions.

Abraham Fraunce mentions Piers Plowman, but he merely repeats the identifying features printed in Crowley's preface and Bale's indices.

As one reviewer claims, the preface which is merely a disclaimer of sorts, " is by no means the least important part of it ".

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.

In the preface to the first edition Kant explains what he means by a critique of pure reason: " I do not mean by this a critique of books and systems, but of the faculty of reason in general, in respect of all knowledge after which it may strive independently of all experience.

7 From this, one infers that fueros, in the sense interesting for our object, are some laws born of use and of custom ; but we also understand the same word to mean " a collection of laws " or a book that compiles and gathers under a certain order those which will govern the peoples, as one knows from the preface to the Fuero real Fuero ", in which the Lord King Alonso the Learned says, " Understanding that the greater part of our kingdoms have not had fuero up to our time, and rendered judgement based on precedent and orally transmitted custom, separated from the people, and for improper uses without right / law, from which were born many evils and much damage to towns and to men ; and those asking us for mercy that we emend the uses that we found without right / law ; and that we give them fuero so that they would live lawfully from here forward, we have counsel with our court, and with those who know ..." continues at: image: fuero4. JPG < nowiki ></ nowiki >

A reference in the preface to the Novelas exemplares has been taken to mean that he painted the portrait of Cervantes, who, in the second part of Don Quixote, praises the translation of Tasso's Aminta published at Rome in 1607.

The term preface can also mean any preliminary or introductory statement.

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.

it would be superfluous, aside from a certain absurdity in an author's speaking of his own play, for me to come here and preface with a few words this presentation of Ubu Roi, after such famous critics have cared to discuss it — among whom I must thank, and with these few all the others, M. M.

( The present study ... began by being asked to prepare a presentation on the diocese for the annual national conference of the Central Council for the Care of Churches to be held in Manchester in 2009 ", preface )