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preface and Scriptures
Blanco states in the preface of the book, " Those who are better qualified have given readers of the Holy Scriptures excellent translations for such purposes and undoubtedly will continue to do so as additional manuscripts come to light.
J. N. Darby's purpose was, as he states in the preface to his English NT, to make a modern translation for the unlearned who have neither access to manuscript texts nor training and knowledge of ancient languages of the Scriptures.

preface and may
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.
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.
Janet Hitchman, in the preface to " Striding Folly ", remarks that " Wimsey may have been the sad ghost of a wartime lover (...).
In his preface to the Prophecies, Nostradamus himself stated that his prophecies extend ' from now to the year 3797 '— an extraordinary date which, given that the preface was written in 1555, may have more than a little to do with the fact that 2242 ( 3797-1555 ) had recently been proposed by his major astrological source Richard Roussat as a possible date for the end of the world.
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 ".
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 ".
Uncial itself probably comes from St. Jerome's preface to the Book of Job, where it is found in the form uncialibus, but it is possible that this is a misreading of inicialibus ( though this makes little sense in the context ), and Jerome may have been referring to the larger initial letters found at the beginning of paragraphs.
With its similar title and prominent mention of Arrian in the preface, it may have been intended as a sequel to Arrian's " The Campaigns of Alexander ," or simply to fill in the gaps in his account.
Hermann's attack may have provoked the supplement to the preface to the Hecuba, in the second edition published at Cambridge in 1802.
The preface of his Divān, in which his early life is discussed, was written by an unknown contemporary of Hafez whose name may have been Moḥammad Golandām.
It is thus more appropriate for the pronunciation data in foreign language dictionaries, which may discuss phonetic details in the preface but rarely give them for each entry.
The epigraph may serve as a preface, as a summary, as a counter-example, or to link the work to a wider literary canon, either to invite comparison or to enlist a conventional context.
The Pharmacopoeia is defined in the preface as only " intended to afford to the members of the medical profession and those engaged in the preparation of medicines throughout the British Empire one uniform standard and guide whereby the nature and composition of, substances to be used in medicine may be ascertained and determined.
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.
On 10 August, More wrote to the St. James Chronicle to protest that she “ never saw, heard, or read, a single line of Mrs. Cowley ’ s Tragedy .” In her preface to Albina, Cowley allows that the theatre managers, who in those days also acted as script editors, may have inadvertently given More her ideas: “ Amidst the croud of Plots, and Stage Contrivances, in which a Manager is involv ’ d, recollection is too frequently mistaken for the suggestions of imagination ” in original.
However, all are also Knights Bachelor and thus each may preface their name with that title.
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.
There are numerous editions of his works, among which may be noticed: Œuvres ( 1772 ), with preface and éloge, by Joseph de La Porte ; Œuvres ( 1828 ), containing D ' Alembert's Éloge de Crébillon, ( 1775 ); and Théâtre complet ( 1885 ) with a notice by Auguste Vito.
Schlick's book begins with a preface in three parts: the composer first thanks his patrons, then briefly discusses the nature of music, and finally describes the purpose of the Spiegel: it was not intended for organists and / or organ builders, as it may seem from the title, but for those church and monastery authorities who wanted to buy an organ, or had one entrusted to their care.
" " How much of this ," Halley adds, " is so, you know best, so likewise what you have to do in this matter ; only Mr Hooke seems to expect you should make some mention of him in the preface, which ' tis possible you may see reason to prefix.
In addition, no " preface or instruction " may be included in the interrogatories unless it has been approved by the Judicial Council ; in practice, this means that the only instructions permissible with interrogatories are the ones provided with the form interrogatories.
Pierre Beaumarchais noted in the preface to his 1778 play, The Marriage of Figaro ( which satirized the aristocracy ) that it was the late prince de Conti who requested the play be written, and Louis François Joseph's antics may have been the model for the misadventures of " Count Almaviva ".

preface and serve
Baudelaire, in fact, in his preface to Les Fleurs du mal ( Flowers of Evil ) penned lines that as much as anything can serve as a sort of goth malediction:
* On Rhetoric and Rhetorical Figures, an Alphabetical Selection of Phrases, intended to serve as a guide to the acquirement of a pure Attic style — the first example of an Atticist lexicon, mentioned by Suidas in the preface to his lexicon as one of his authorities ;
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.
A collected edition of Patmore's poems appeared in two volumes in 1886, with a characteristic preface which might serve as the author's epitaph.
It was en route to Chile that, in the baths of Zonda, he wrote the graffiti " On ne tue point les idées ," an incident that would later serve as the preface to his book Facundo.
Among other things, the preface gives an analysis of forty-seven divisions of knowledge, with classed lists of the articles belonging to each, intended to serve as a table of contents and also as a directory indicating the order in which the articles should be read.

preface and introduction
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.
The 11th century only has been treated in detail by Louis Halphen, in Le Comté d ' Anjou au XI < sup > e </ sup > siècle ( Paris, 1906 ), which has a preface with bibliography and an introduction dealing with the history of Anjou in the 10th century.
A French translation, which Orwell admired, by RN Raimbault and Gwen Gilbert, entitled, was published by Éditions Gallimard, on 2 May 1935, with a preface by Panait Istrati and an introduction by Orwell.
* Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism Is a Humanism ( translated by Carol Macomber, introduction by Annie Cohen-Solal, notes and preface by Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre ) Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007 ISBN 978-0-300-11546-8
* edited by Sandi Brockway, foreword by Marilyn Ferguson, introduction by Denis Hayes, preface by Donella H. Meadows, Macrocosm U. S. A .: Possibilities for a New Progressive Era ..., Macrocosm, 1993, paperback, 464 pages, ISBN 0-9632315-5-3
The non-fictional preface to this book by this eminent architectural historian is an excellent introduction to the Hypnerotomachia.
A 2, 500-copy second edition of The Scarlet Letter included a preface by Hawthorne dated March 30, 1850, that stated he had decided to reprint his introduction " without the change of a word ...
For example, many standards have an introduction, preface, or summary that is considered non-normative, as well as a main body that is considered normative.
Later editions: NY and London 1950 ( Revised with new preface ), Bloomington 1960 ( Reprints 1950, with new foreword by Richards and introduction by K. Raine ).
These memoirs remained unpublished for decades, but, illustrated with sketches by Jeanne Falco, the judge's second wife, who accompanied him throughout the trials, are due to be published in September 2012 under the title Juge à Nuremberg by Editions Arbre bleu, with a preface by the historian Annette Wieviorka and an introduction by Guillaume Mouralis, an historian specialising in the history of international penal justice.
* His Life of Virgil is thought to be based on a lost Vita by Suetonius, together with the preface and introduction of his commentary on Virgil's works.
Reprinted: New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004 ; introduction by Blanche Wiessen Cook ; preface by David Lattimore.
Following the introduction is a preface written by Nin in 1934, which begins as follows:
Its impact was greater in Europe and the Continent than in India and a literary success more due to Halhed's preface and the introduction to Sanskrit than the laws themselves.
He is also notable as a supporter of Kenneth Patchen, whose Outlaw of the Lowest Planet he published in 1946, with an introduction by David Gascoyne and a preface by Alex Comfort.
Information essential to the main text is generally placed in a set of explanatory notes, or perhaps in an introduction, rather than in the foreword or preface.
If there is both a foreword and a preface, the foreword appears first ; both appear before the introduction, which may be paginated either with the front matter or the main text.
* The difference between a preface, foreword, and introduction – PatMcNees. com
Hypertext is related to paratext, which includes information that accompanies the text itself ( illustrations, preface or introduction ).
The book has a preface by Aleida Guevara March and an introduction by Cintio Vitier.
The original book was published in 1929 by Jonathan Cape in London, and contains a preface by Dutton and an introduction by Hilaire Belloc.
Each book has a preface by the editors, and each story is preceded by a short introduction, focusing on other works by the story's author.
* The Pilgrim's Tale ( 1999 ) edited and with an introduction by Aleksei Pentkovsky, T. Allan Smith ( translator ), Jaroslav Pelikan ( preface ), Paulist Press, ISBN 0-8091-3709-7
" The Arabic introduction to the second edition and the Hebrew preface of the first have been in great part preserved ( see Harkavy, " Studien ," v. 39-59 ).

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