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Its preface features a history of the novel and Sade’s theories on the ‘modern novel‘: Reflections on the Novel by Sade: first English translation? « Jahsonic
History as necromancy is avowed in the Preface to Life of Notes on 'Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality'
Every step which led him to the summit of power was prefaced by what he called seeking the Lord; that is, attending sermons and prayers, by which the suborned performers of those profane and solemn farces prepared their congregations to desire what their employers had previously determined to do; thus giving an air of divine inspiration to the projects of fraud, murder, and ambition. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
I am criticised for the expression tinker up in the preface. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
These terms are made coextensive with the temporal span of Maisie's childhood; as the preface puts it, ‘she wonders… to the end-the death of her childhood’.

A short documentary prefaced the feature movie.
In his preface, the author says that he took eight years to write the book.
He has written a fine preface to the play.
Five weeks of club games and disrupted training sessions prefaced their match against Limerick.
The misconceived refusal to give Charlie Adam a penalty and send off Philippe Senderos on the hour, a spoilsport decision to disallow a goal for Luis Suárez midway through the second half and a red card for the young midfielder Jay Spearing a few minutes later prefaced a crescendo of Fulham attacking which ended with a dreadful Pepe Reina error and a decisive tap-in for Clint Dempsey. Andy Carroll's ineffectiveness adds to Liverpool frustration at Fulham | Richard Williams
No doubt, Melanchthon also had in mind his far-reaching irenics at Augsburg, when he wrote in the Preface to the Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
She prefaced her remarks with a few words of welcome to the guest speaker.
Lawrence agreed with Read's comment that it was grangerised, declaring that he had said as much in his preface to the illustrations - ‘Why shouldn't I grangerise my own book?
In short, I hope the reader who is now looking at this preface will carefully read every word in the following pages; and not only _read_, but _remember_, the lessons there taught, and thereby become wiser and better. No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey
Then follows a sort of second preface, in which the Doctor mourns the death and resounds the praises of the late Professor.
The book includes many references to Joseph-Jerôme Lalande's L'Art de faire le maroquin and Quemiset promises to improve on that work. 17 reference The preface also connects this book to publications on dyeing cloth, suggesting that Quemiset will organize the subject of dyeing leathers and establish its rules as Hellot's, Macquer's, and Le Pileur d'Apligny's books had done for wool, silk, and cotton, respectively. reference The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
The words of Father John A. Conway, S.J. (in the preface to Fr. von Hammerstein's work, "Edgar, or from Atheism to the Full Truth") may well be quoted in this connection: "Who can read the words that teem from the German The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
The preface to the reader made it abundantly clear that it was aimed not at erudite ecclesiastical theologians but at ordinary people.
A brief preface goes before the first part which provides a brief biography of Hugo Wolf including the forming and development of his peculiar style.
In essays, interviews, and prefaces to his own work, he explored the problematic borderlines between historical fact and novelistic invention.
Ovid's "Metamorphoses," translated by several hands; which he recommended by a preface, written with more ostentation than ability; his notions are half-formed, and his materials immethodically confused. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2
He therefore was commissioned to abridge and write a preface to a now obscure work of mental philosophy, The Light of Nature Pursued by Abraham Tucker (originally published in seven volumes from 1768 to 1777), which appeared in 1807 and may have had some influence on his own later thinking. William hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
_And for the rest, since good wine needs no hush, and an inferior beverage is not likely to be bettered by arboreal adornment, the reteller of these tales prefers to piece out his exordium (however lamely) with_ "THE PRINTER'S PREFACE. Chivalry
In the Preface to St Leon, Godwin expostulates upon his turn from a politics based on public discussion to one based on private affections.
In the preface to the English translation, he says that his cisatlantic experience left him with ‘a persistent sense of self-consciousness and Unheimlichkeit.’
Publishers could help by inviting authors to state in the prefaces to their books what in their view would constitute valid and serious grounds for scholarly criticism and disagreement.
Our defeat may be the preface to our successor's victory.
The only complaint is that the publisher might have updated the preface for the paperback edition.
Several pages of closely reasoned argument preface her account of the war.
Like the as-yet-unpublished "Lexicon," Elements contains all manner of facts collated from the object work; unlike that project, it has been published with full consent from the author, if Pullman's preface is anything to go by: "It's flattering, of course, to find one's work the object of such care and attention; but how much more satisfying when the work of reference that results is so accurate, and so interesting, and so good. Archive 2008-04-01
Seville cathedral, did his share as editor by writing two prefaces, one addressed to Sarmiento de Mendoza, and the other to Olivares who was manifestly expected to pronounce against Gongorism. Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment
As a preface to discussing specifics, I need to bring up some general issues surrounding theories of literary dependence.
It was a pleasure to have Artur Yusupov working as my second, both personally and professionally," Anand writes in the preface to Yusupov's excellent book Boost your Chess 2, Beyond the Basics, published by Quality Chess. Lubomir Kavalek: Chess Champion's Class Act
The foregoing remark so fitly tells us of our own participation in the same sinistrous line that we can not but borrow them to preface what follows. Tennessee
Author's introductionAuthor's prefaceSelecting a breedMethods of breedingHow to breedThe rabbitry and its equipmentFeeds and feedingFeeding rabbitsCoprophagyReproductionManaging the herdVarious uses of rabbit manureTypes of productionMarketing rabbitsSimplified tanningCooking recipesMultiple-project approach to rabbitryGlossaryHow to breed Chapter 6
This was a home question, and a poser, for Ned had not the least idea of what sum he ought to ask for his work, and at the same time he had a strong antipathy to that species of haggling, which is usually prefaced by the seller, with the reply, "What'll ye give? The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West
Why, writing a tragedy himself, with a judgment far different from that exhibited in his panegyrical preface, he totally rejects, and therefore tacitly condemns and abjures the use of prose-poetry. Review
‘Anger and sadness are not uncommon today to those who still care for the history of this marvellous city’, writes Llewellyn-Jones bluntly in the preface to this omnibus edition.
French by Petis de la Croix, with a preface by Cazotte, and was englished by Ambrose Phillips. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
At the end of the preface, Carpenter denies any attempt to have reproduced the text in a facsimile transcription.
In his preface to the book he speaks of her as a fair representation, at the time it was published, of the hired attendant on the poor in sickness: but he might have added that the rich were no better off, for Mrs. Gamp's original was in reality a person hired by a most distinguished friend of his own, a lady, to take charge of an invalid very dear to her; and the common habit of this nurse in the sick room, among other Gampish peculiarities, was to rub her nose along the top of the tall fender. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
the preface contained an acknowledgment of those who had helped her
Jacques Derrida, in the preface to Margins of Philosophy, identifies the printing press-specifically, the ‘tympan’ as the agent of division.
Several pages of closely reasoned argument preface her account of the war.
The preface and introduction fluently delineate many of the issues raised by the speeches.
His death is converted into perdurability of life, whereof it is said in the preface that, from whence that the death grew, from thence the life resourded, and the stench is turned into sweetness, Canticorum I. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
Sometimes the season name was used sometimes it was prefaced by 'austral' with result that I was unsure which season was being referred to. RealClimate
The relaunched book will include a preface written by renowned local poet Desmond Egan.
Prefaces; and it is well to remember the witticism of Voltaire, who, on hearing an ambitious poeticule read his Ode to Posterity, doubted whether it would reach its address. Prisoner for Blasphemy
I should like to preface my response with the following observation.
This Latin hexameter, which is commonly ascribed to Horace, appeared for the first time as an epigraph to President Hénaults Abrégé Chronologique, and in the preface to the third edition of this work Hénault acknowledges that he had given it as a translation of this couplet. Quotations
On Easter Sunday, pastor Todd Hahn prefaced his sermon by saying, "I hope many of you are tweeting this morning about your experience with God.
A brief preface to each speech sets the historical context leading up to the event and provides a glimpse into Frome's life.
Greene provides a clear, lengthy preface describing how to prepare ten strings of the grand piano with rubber erasers and wood screws.
Perhaps fear of being held to account for theories that pronounce on the nature of value in our culture have made the convention of the disclaimer so frequent in the prefaces or introductions of How To books.
He prefaces them with introductory essays that paint a vivid picture of an assertive faith characterized by ‘emotionalism, ecstasy, rigorousness, exuberance, and evangelism.’
The book has a preface written by the author.
The list itself was prefaced with the following insight: ‘Leaders with absolute power too often abuse it.’
In his preface, the author says that he took eight years to write the book.
Yet nowhere do these prefaces warn us that certain editors have taken the most astonishing liberties with the music.
He therefore added a preface of his own on applications of logarithms to both plane trigonometry and to spherical trigonometry.
Your presentation may then be prefaced by the chairman reading out your whole boring life story in a monotone.
In the preface to his book he expressed his intention to relate chemical research to industrial processes and in the same year he reported the results of his work on electrolytic oxidation and reduction, in which he showed that definite reduction products can result if the potential at the cathode is kept constant. Fritz Haber - Biography
Featuring over 140 creative recipes and prefaced by witty introductions, the book offers an inspirational approach to cooking and eating seasonal food.
On the contrary, he grew presumptuous on success; and when he printed his performance, the dedication to the Earl of Norwich was directly levelled against the poet-laureate who termed it the “most arrogant, calumniatory, ill-mannered, and senseless preface he ever saw.” [ The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
As noted in the preface to the third edition, further treaty revision will take place following the next IGC proposed for 2004, which has now been established and has commenced work in Brussels.
In the 1802 Preface, this thought is preceded by a return to the 1798 Advertisement: "They who have been accustomed to the gaudiness and inane phraseology of many modern writers ... will, no doubt, [here] frequently have to struggle with feelings of strangeness and aukwardness: they will look round for poetry, and will be induced to inquire by what species of courtesy these attempts can be permitted to assume that title" (596). Wordsworths Balladry: Real Men Wanted
He naturally took Reuchlin's part in the latter's controversy with the Cologne professors (see HUMANISM), and wrote in 1514 a preface to the "Epistolae clarorum virorum"; but he did not come prominently to the fore. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Daniel prefaces his interpretation with a review of Nebuchadnezzar's prideful fall from grace and Beishazzar's own lack of humility.
Grimald in his preface to his translation of Cicero's De Officiis, protests against the translation that is "uttered with inkhorn terms and not with usual words. Early Theories of Translation
Two of the editors contribute what is effectively a long, and extremely fluent, preface and a postface.
Most of the men were suffering from tired feet, and they prefaced the meal by removing their shoes and unbinding the filthy rags with which their feet were wrapped. THE SPIKE
PrefaceThe developmental dislocation of the hip ( DDH ) is the common disorder in pediatric orthopedics.
A porch prefaces the entrance.
Each time, he prefaces the proposal with a hedging ‘I think’, which indicates that he is aware that many readers are likely to think otherwise.
Our defeat may be the preface to our successor's victory.
Featuring over 140 creative recipes and prefaced by witty introductions, the book offers an inspirational approach to cooking and eating seasonal food.
Yet whenever I hear someone stand up in public with a poem or short story in their hand which they then preface with a lengthy disclaimer about its imperfections, I cannot help sniffing false modesty.
Prefaces are almost always, paradoxically, afterthoughts, and as such they both enact ambivalence and orient the reader ambivalently. The Times Literary Supplement
Even then it was anonymous to those who were not in the secret of the anagrammatic character of its title; and the preface and dedication are so worded as, in case of necessity, to give the printer a fair chance of falling back on the excuse that the work was intended for a mere Essays
The preface, to be sure, shows a perhaps rhetorically prudent ambivalence towards the use of humour in polemic.
But that kind of clarification of my understanding of biblical teaching for evangelical groups has usually been a preface to a plea for humility.
If the Musæ Exulantes, [The title assumed by them, in the preface to the Latin translation of Cato.] in the swamps of Bruges, could produce an elegant and nervous translation of Cato, will their notes be less strong or less sweet in their native land? The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
The book's 246 pages are divided into two forewords, a preface, eight chapters, and seven appendixes.
This preface is undated but, based on the content, it must have been written after his resignation from the Party in March 1916 and during the last few months of his life. Jack London's Nonfiction Collection of Unpublished Book Forwards
On the subject of toiletries, hairbrushes and things, my dictionary says a ‘preface’ is an introduction to a book, usually explaining its intention or content.
The book has a preface written by the author.
Galileo had written a pious preface in which he ridiculed the Copernican theory as wild and fantastic and contrary to Holy Scripture.
The sixteen essays, which are prefaced by an introduction by the editors, look at Newton's works in physics, mathematics, metaphysics and chemistry.
There should be a brilliant preface, introducing the seven sages to each other and the reader, after the ensample of Plutarch, and exhausting all the antiquarianism, all the memoirism, and all the varia-lectionism of the subject. An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
As George Menasseri, noted academician who wrote the preface to the book, points out, it is a break from the tradition in that the authors did not depend much on the works of foreign writers.
In fact, the authors write in their preface, ‘Our objective was to write a book that you could pick up in the airport, read during a couple hours' flight, and deplane at a new mental as well as physical destination.’
(I should have prefaced this anecdote by saying, for the benefit of those readers who have never been in Paris, that the entresol is a low story just over the shops, and that the Rue de Rivoli is one of the noisiest streets in the city.) -- "But Feuillet has leased the third and fourth floors: why don't you receive up there?" responded the visitor. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
She kind of prefaced the conversation by leading me to believe she was going somewhere else. OnlineAthens: Top Headlines
I'll preface my comments by saying that I chose not to circumcize my son. Neonatal Circumcision (Controversy? Who, Moi?)
The content of the preface was repeated to the point of meaninglessness.
It was Frances who told Peter the preface to the famous words. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
Sir Walter Scott, Marmion: a Tale of Flodden Field. 1809: Publication of the 2 volume stereotype edition of Bloomfield's Poems, containing new prefaces and revised texts of some of his work. A Bloomfield Chronology
This article is excerpted from the new preface to the updated paperback edition.
Clearly, the preface is ambivalent; the critique of enthusiasm with which the preface begins undermines its polemic, and vice versa. _Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism
It appears in a 1964 letter published as a preface to a text written in the 1920s.
Aguilera has written a preface for the book introducing the ongoing show at the Shanghai Museum, which is entitled ‘The Mayan Treasures from Mexico.’
The book contains a preface, six chapters and two appendices - one a list of end uses of asbestos and the other a partial list of organizations that specified asbestos in codes or standards.
From the Latin word Sanctus thrice said, the hymn is sometimes referred to as Tersanctus, and is thus apt to be confused with the triple Sanctus at the end of the preface at Mass. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Daniel prefaces his interpretation with a review of Nebuchadnezzar's prideful fall from grace and Beishazzar's own lack of humility.
A short documentary prefaced the feature movie.
Caxton's prefaces, colophons, and epilogues in particular are self-conscious about authorship, purpose, genre, sources, patronage, medium, and technique.
In addition to providing some history about them, it also doubles as a preface for describing the animation.
I sometimes throw in "omnivorous" alongside "omniscient" and "omnipotent" when mentioning the classic attributes ascribed to God, just to see whether people are paying attention, or are pleased as long as what is said about God is prefaced by "omni". Time To End The Kindergarten Revolution
The total finishing and printing, not only of the body of the discourse, but also the preface, before occasion was given to those thoughts which I now desire to communicate, is the rise of this ataxy. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
Ignoring her greeting card preface, the trio around me began to weave a tangle of memories, Lily's going farther back than the others.
In a semi-polemical preface, he takes some unwarranted shots at post-Cold War studies of Soviet spying that are based on VENONA decrypts and documents from KGB and Comintern archives.
Shelley's "modern eclogue" is prefaced by a disclaimer similar to that of "Christabel" and possibly influenced by it: "the impulse of the feelings which moulded the conception of the story," says Shelley, "determined the pauses of a measure, which only pretends to be regular inasmuch as it corresponds with, and expresses, the irregularity of the imaginations which inspired it 'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes
In his preface he expresses the regret at not having the gifts (whatever they may be) of the kailyard school, or -- looking up to a very different plane -- the genius of Mr. Barrie. Notes on Life and Letters
First published in 1994, this revised, softcover edition is, with the exception of a short preface, identical to the original, hardcover publication.
According to his preface to the Psalms commentary, Calvin was suddenly converted to teachableness, not to interiority.
In his preface Green acknowledges that this is a book he hopes to update with contributions from the floor.
The Rabbi, who organized the event, prefaces the talk with a small spiel about declining synagogue attendance among young Jews.
As the authors discuss in the preface it would be difficult to envision agriculture without electric motors and other electrical devices.
Usually she prefaced her comments with the exclamation, ‘Ay, Senora!’
I will preface what I am going to say with a few lines from Shakespeare.
I reminded myself that I had missed my regular writing session yesterday, and then I remembered something Joan Didion wrote in the preface to Slouching Towards Bethlehem about writing the title piece: 2009 October « Exile on Ninth Street
Ullman's 10 steps are listed in a preface to the book's introduction and then spelled out over the course of eight chapters.
I should like to preface my response with the following observation.
It shocked Victorian audiences—Gautier's preface is one of the great manifestoes of art for art's sake. Decadent Writing Of the 19th Century
In the Preface to the collected edition of Manx Notes and Queries, Roeder wrote.
The preface to the reader made it abundantly clear that it was aimed not at erudite ecclesiastical theologians but at ordinary people.
This odd genius was as shy and ungregarious as was the dark-eyed "teller of tales," but the two appear to have been socially disposed toward each other, and there are delightful bits in the preface to the "Mosses" in regard to the hours they spent together boating on the large, quiet Concord River. The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees
He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution
I must preface my remarks with an apology.
She prefaced her talk with an apology/by apologizing for being late.
Although you will often see his name prefaced with "dissident cleric," that does a great disservice to his more appropriate title, grand ayatollah - the highest rank achievable by Shia Muslim scholars - and the decades upon decades of study, thought, research, teaching and writing required to earn it. CounterPunch
The following Preface appeared in vol. 9 which I translate from The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Merciless, cruel, and unforgiving," wrote Angela Carter a more obvious admirer in her 1982 preface to this edition: "Stead has a rare capacity to flay the reader's sensibilities. The Man Who Loved Children – review
But that kind of clarification of my understanding of biblical teaching for evangelical groups has usually been a preface to a plea for sexual humility.
I prefaced it by saying that these were difficult questions which he was at liberty not to answer.
According to the first, the roU containing the 8 H. 6. has a general preface, which mentions the assent of the commons, in terms referrible to all the chapters of that year. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not ...
He came to the warm-up ring just as John was mounting up; his shout, intended to preface a demand for payment at lunchtime, went unheeded. BARN BLIND
‘freshman’ for proselyte; ‘mooned’ for lunatic; ‘foreshewer’ for prophet; ‘hundreder’ for centurion; Jewel ‘foretalk’, where we now employ preface; Holland ‘sunstead’ where we use solstice; ‘leechcraft’ instead of medicine; and another, ‘wordcraft’ for logic; ‘starconner’ English Past and Present
In the preface of her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique, Betty Freidan wrote: ‘There was a strange discrepancy between the reality of our lives as women and the image to which we were trying to conform’.
Of the purpose with which he had written he spoke thus in what I described as the fragments of a preface to his Miscellany: -- The Bon Gaultier Ballads
As a preface to this speech we should all remind ourselves that there is much work that needs to be done to achieve this ambition.
The book's 246 pages are divided into two forewords, a preface, eight chapters, and seven appendixes.
The people receiving the calls prefaced by * 721 are relatives of inmates, who then use the long-distance service, Trosper said. Kentucky.com: Homepage
The book is prefaced by an introduction 2 Meg PDF by Ray that contains the standard creationist argle bargle. The Panda's Thumb: Creationism Archives
Hand-coloured, mounted and bound in red morocco with a cusped yellow leather border, the plates are prefaced by a manuscript dedication by Angelo to the Prince of Wales.
In this little preface we have deliberately used the old-fashioned terms for the two races, fully aware that they are both inexact, and that today we would, for instance, use the term Inuit instead of Eskimo. The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice
BK: As you were telling your story, you prefaced, which is a thing you often do, and I was curious –when did you begin doing it or notice that you did it? Buzzine » Todd Glass Interview
But as to the time of writing of the Preface to Hunan Peasant Revolution, we are confronted with different versions of record, which blemishes this valuable revolutionary historical document.
First published in 1994, this revised, softcover edition is, with the exception of a short preface, identical to the original, hardcover publication.
Yet nowhere do these prefaces warn us that certain editors have taken the most astonishing liberties with the music.
The oscillation between equivocality and political commitment also entangles the critically controversial preface to "Alastor. _Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism
Mr. Spedding, in his very interesting preface to the "Parasceve," suggests, since his own and Mr. Ellis's conclusions, though different, do not appear irreconcilable, "whether there be not room for a third solution, more complete than either, as including both. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859
Key prefaced his fourth and final book, Age of Manipulation, with an ‘Author's Warning.’
Mr.H. T. Tuckerman makes a book of essays on various subjects, and calls it The Optimist; and then devotes several pages of preface to an argument, lexicon in hand, proving that the applicability of the term optimist is ` obvious. ' Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"
The word thesaurus, as we are continually told in the prefaces to books dealing with synonyms, comes from the Greek word meaning ` treasury. ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
And my son said, Dad, I don't read forewords or prefaces.
The preface to the reader made it abundantly clear that it was aimed not at erudite ecclesiastical theologians but at ordinary people.
After reading so many in the series, this years preface is a bit too familiar, although he did throw in a couple of funny lines. REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #24 edited by Gardner Dozois
I guess should have prefaced my interest in films that challenge the viewer. Cine Cl�sico
This ‘work of my life,’ whose preface had to be concluded only ten years later at Potsdam, was, to a certain degree, the summa he had proposed himself to write, the conclusion of his activities and his knowledge.
Let me know if you want your name prefaced with the word "Lady". International Home Makers
Add here the standard preface that I'm not a lawyer.
I'd like to preface my comments with the fact that I haven't slept for any appreciable amount of time since Thursday night.
Brief introductions preface each text, which is printed in double columns on the page, and there is a full glossary at the end of the book.
Here's his preface to the original edition written in 1934.
In the preface of his sermons on the lives of Saints, Ælfric states that he intends not to translate any more, "ne forte despectui habeantur margarite Christi. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
The point is not that Shaw's plays are tracts, but that they are so much duller, clumsier, more banal than his undramatized tracts, prefaces, reminiscences, feuilletons on the arts, letters to newspapers and random correspondents. Pshaw!
In this outstanding preface, the Prefect of the dicastery charged with the sacred liturgy quite frankly recognizes that the liturgical reforms after the Second Vatican Council have often not been completely successful, that a false spirit of rupture was at work. Cardinal Cañizares Writes About Usus Antiquior and Liturgical Reform
Let me quote a short part of his guessing-game, prefaced by his usual opening.
The same he speaketh yet more plainly in the preface of his sixte boke writen against The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women
He prefaced the diaries with a short account of how they were discovered.
This larger context is the proem, or introductory poem, which prefaced the invocation.
The book is prefaced with four pages of worried preamble by the author about her inspiration - the memoir of an 18 th-century Korean crown princess - and how she translated its impact.
Marston, in his preface, wishes to be outlawed, and of whom he says that he fully merits the 'tartness' and freedom of his satire. Shakspere and Montaigne
The only statement even vaguely likely to incite dislike is a preface to the summary of western thought which is characterised as ‘the inconsistency of their argument’.
Rightly, therefore, the Church venerates him as an "eminent teacher of the monastic life" and "doctor of spiritual wisdom in the love of prayer and work; shining guide of people in the light of the Gospel" who, "raised to heaven by a luminous road" teaches people of all ages to seek God and the eternal riches prepared by him (cf. Preface of the Holy in the monastery to the MR, 1980, 153). More from Montecassino
In his preface, the author says that he took eight years to write the book.
On each occasion I've prefaced my concerns with this statement: ‘I'm not being critical of your country.’
He prefaced his speech with a discourse on the need of friendship.
The slim, trim title, suggesting an anthology of prefaces as an art form, is a leftover from Gray's earliest plan for the book.
He then undertook an edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by several hands; which he recommended by a preface, written with more ostentation than ability; his notions are half-formed, and his materials immethodically confused. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
Let me preface this by saying that I am a huge fan of HdM and think they are one of the only starchitects out there today who are worth a damn.
Somewhere along the way, the book outgrew its nimble original plan and then went on growing until prefaces as such became a distinctly secondary consideration.
I would very fain have presented it unto thee pure and naked, without the ornament of a preface, or the rabblement and catalogue of the wonted sonnets, epigrams, poems, elegies, etc., which are wont to be put at the beginning of books. The Author’s Preface to the Reader
The speaker prefaced her remarks with a joke.
A short documentary prefaced the feature movie.
His attempt to define effective prose rhythm technically is one of the most curious and interesting parts of his preface.
Review of Erasmus 'Preface" Luther answers Erasmus 'charge that the bible is not plain or "perspicuous" (hence the need to obey and submit to the authoritative interpretation of the Church) Stand Firm
Some of you will no doubt recall mention of a forthcoming book that carries a rather important preface by Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith, the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship (see Clear Words of Msgr Ranjith on the Flaws of the Postconciliar Liturgical Reforms and the Need for a Reform of the Reform, Feb. 24, 2009). Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy"
Quevedo, who had obtained his copies of Luis de Leon's verses from Manuel Sarmiento de Mendoza, a canon of Seville cathedral, did his share as editor by writing two prefaces, one addressed to Sarmiento de Mendoza, and the other to Olivares who was manifestly expected to pronounce against Gongorism. Fray Luis de Leon
In the Preface, Dawkins declares that his intention in this book is to make science more appealing to a young generation which prefers the beauty of art and which is drawn increasingly to careers in the social sciences.
The critical judgments are venturesomely banal ( "In countless variations, both fictional and dramatic, he studies illusions destined sooner or later to be shattered against the trivialities of everyday life"), and the psychological probings, full of self-congratulatory assumptions about Chekhov's motivations, unconsciously resemble, at times, Nabokov's parody of the "scholar" who writes the bogus preface to Lolita. Short Reviews
Jesus offers a preface in these verses, which come near the conclusion of the section in John commonly referred to as Jesus' farewell discourse.
Author's introductionAuthor's prefaceSelecting a breedMethods of breedingHow to breedThe rabbitry and its equipmentFeeds and feedingFeeding rabbitsCoprophagyReproductionManaging the herdVarious uses of rabbit manureTypes of productionMarketing rabbitsSimplified tanningCooking recipesMultiple-project approach to rabbitryGlossaryGlossary Chapter 19
Giani wrote in his Preface that the Servite lunette paintings should serve as an example for narrative painting in general, and focused on their didactic function and their role as a visual stimulus to piety.
MQuinn: The emailer could have easily prefaced her comments with a paragraph explicitly expressing the unlikelihood that African Americans are inferior, or that any disparities in IQ testing are likely the products of environment, or some other caveat that softened the blow of herÂemail. The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
He prefaced the diaries with a short account of how they were discovered.
In the preface Platina not only avoids any antagonism towards the Church but even refers with approbation to the punishing of heretics and schismatics by the popes, which is the best proof that Sixtus IV, by his marks of favour, had won Platina for the interests of the Church. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
Blessing of Font. (a) Exorcism of water. (b) Two collects. (c) "Sursum Corda" and Preface. (d) Chrismation at Font. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux

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