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Ajahn Sumedho

Ajahn Sumedho said that he was directly influenced by Edward Salim Michael's book : The way of inner vigilance (republished in 2010 with the new title : the Law of attention, Nada Yoga and the way of inner vigilance" and for which Ajahn Sumedho wrote a preface).

Alexander Gough

Most notably, Gough wrote an introduction to Humphrey Moseley's 1652 first edition of The Widow; his preface "To the Reader" re-iterated the title-page attribution of that play to John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton.

Alfred Nicolas Rambaud

In 1885 Rambaud published, in collaboration with J. B. Baille, a French translation of J.R. Seeley's Expansion of England, and in the preface he laid great emphasis on the enormous increase of power brought to England by the possession of her colonies, seeing in this a lesson for France.

Antoine Chazal

Philippe Nusbaumer, Antoine Chazal, 1793-1854, Vie et Œuvre, Le Pecq, 2013, préface de Pierre Rosenberg, isbn 9782951186026.

Assuerus Regimorter

At the end of the preface to Tractatus de Rachitide, published in 1650, his initials are the last, following those of Francis Glisson, and George Bate.

Benedict Levita

Three other writings precede the first book; a prologue in verse, a preface in prose which treats of the origin and contents of the collection, and the aforesaid metrical panegyric on the rulers of the Carolingian line; beginning with Pepin and Carloman and ending with the sons of Louis the Pious.

Between Past and Future

The first sentence of the preface is a citation of French poet and résistant René Char: "Notre héritage n'est précédé d'aucun testament," translated by Arendt herself as "our inheritance was left to us by no testament."

Carlo Maria Curci

He later wrote for Vincenzo Gioberti, Antonio Rosmini-Serbati and other advocates for reform; Cerci wrote a preface to Gioberti's Primato (1843), but dissented from his Prolegomena.

Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau

Je suis aussi ..., preface by Dominique Barbéris, Paris: L'Harmattan (Coll. Poètes des cinq continents), 2009.

Charles Christian Hennell

Dr. Robert Herbert Brabant of Devizes introduced the book to David Strauss, author of Das Leben Jesu, and the Inquiry was translated into German (1839): Strauss wrote it a preface.

Crown of Immortality

The preface to Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem The Revolt of Islam contain: Should the public judge that my composition is worthless, I shall indeed bow before the tribunal from which Milton received his crown of immortality....

Dancing with Time

Dancing with Time was produced as film for TV (f.ex.: ARTE and ZDF) and movie-theaters, as DVD and as book by Marion Appelt, with a preface of Renate Schmidt.

Daniele Archibugi

(with Jonathan Michie), Trade, Growth and Technical Change, preface by Nathan Rosenberg (Cambridge University Press, 1998);

David Conforte

The original manuscript was brought from Egypt by R. David Ashkenazi of Jerusalem, who, to judge from a note in his preface, gave it the title Ḳore ha-Dorot, and had it printed in Venice in 1746, without mentioning the name of the author.

Debach

The author Ronald Blythe wrote the book Akenfield while living in Debach in 1966-7 and mentions the village - "a tiny parish of some eighty souls" - in the preface to the book.

Eight Short Preludes and Fugues

The preface by the Bach scholar Alfred Dürr contains a survey of the literature on possible authorship.

Étienne Marc Quatremère

His manuscript material for Syriac was utilized in Robert Payne Smith's Thesaurus; of the slips he collected for a projected Arabic, Persian and Turkish lexicon some account is given in the preface to Dozy, Supplément aux dictionaires arabes.

Guillaume Bigot

It has a long preface, addressed to Cardinal Jean du Bellay, in which he defends himself against his detractors.

Gustave d'Eichthal

Correspondance inédite de Stuart Mill avec Gustave d'Eichthal, translation and preface by Eugène d'Eichthal (1898)

Haarlem schutterij

De Stadsdoelen,publication by the Vereniging Haarlem in 1974 on the opening of the new wing of the central library, ediited by C. van der Haar and with a preface by J.J. Temminck, city archivist

Henri de Boulainvilliers

In 1683 Boulainvilliers wrote " l'Idée d'un Système Géneral de la Nature" based on his reading of Jan Baptist van Helmont and Robert Boyle, followed by "Archidoxes de Paracelsus, avec une préface sur les principes de l'art chimique".

Hildegard Goss-Mayr

Mystique et militant de la non-violence, Namur, Fidélité, 2010, preface by Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.

Jacques-André Boiffard

In the mid-1920s, Boiffard decided to dedicate himself to research in the Bureau of Surrealist Research, writing the preface with Paul Éluard and Roger Vitrac to the first issue of La Révolution surréaliste.

Japanese poetry

The Kana preface to Kokin Wakashū was the second earliest expression of literary theory and criticism in Japan (the earliest was by Kūkai).

Javier Cacho Gomez

Since his first visit to the Antarctic, his interest in the history of the exploration of the continent, and the result of years of study, has taken him to write a book” Amundsen-Scott: Duel in the Antarctic”(Forcola 2011), preface by Manuel Toharia and subsequently translated into Bulgarian language, and published by the publisher Ciela, preface by Christo Pimpirev.

John A. Hobson

V.I. Lenin, in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) - which was probably his most influential work on later Marxian scholarship - made use of Hobson's Imperialism extensively, remarking in the preface "I made use of the principal English work, Imperialism, J. A. Hobson's book, with all the care that, in my opinion, that work deserves."

John Callander

The preface by James Maidment to Letters from Thomas Percy, D.D., afterwards Bishop of Dromore, John Callander of Craigforth, Esq., and others, to George Paton, which appeared at Edinburgh in 1830, indicates that in his latter years Callendar was reclusive, and a religious melancholic.

John Chamberlayne

In the preface to a part of this published in 1719 he relates that Fagel assured Bishop Burnet "that it was worth his while to learn Dutch, only for the pleasure of reading Brandt's History of the Reformation".

Lay confession

As an example, the Anglican Church of Canada states, in the preface to its liturgical rite for "The Reconciliation of a Penitent", the following: "The absolution in these services may be pronounced only by a bishop or a priest. If a deacon or a lay person hears a confession, a declaration of forgiveness may be made in the form provided".

Martha Kaplan

Contents: Preface by Marshall Sahlins, Introduction by Martha Kaplan; Original papers by John D Kelly, Andrew Lattas, Deborah McDougall, Martha Kaplan, Daniel Rosenblatt, and Margaret Jolly, with Comments by Robert J. Foster and Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney.

Nathaniel Spinckes

'The Church of England Man's Companion in the Closet, with a Preface by N. Spinckes,' 1721; a manual of private devotions collected, probably by Spinckes himself, from the writings of William Laud, Lancelot Andrewes, Thomas Ken, George Hickes, John Kettlewell, and Spinckes, which reached a fifteenth edition in 1772, and was republished in 1841.

National Competitiveness Report of Armenia

The first ACR was published in 2008; the preface for the report was written by Armenia’s Minister of Economy, Nerses Yeritsyan, and Harvard University Professor, Michael E. Porter, a leading authority on competitive strategy and international competitiveness.

New King James Version

According to the preface of the New King James Version (p. v-vi), the NKJV uses the 1967/1977 Stuttgart edition of the Biblia Hebraica for the Old Testament, with frequent comparisons made to the Ben Hayyim edition of the Mikraot Gedolot published by Bomberg in 1524–25, which was used for the King James Version.

Peter Josyph

Josyph edited, illustrated, and wrote the preface for Letters to A Best Friend (SUNY Press, 2009), a selection of Richard Selzer’s correspondence with him.

Piae Cantiones

In 1910 an edition of the original, entitled Piae Cantiones: A Collection of Church & School Song, chiefly Ancient Swedish, originally published in A.D. 1582 by Theodoric Petri of Nyland, was published in England by the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, with a preface and notes by George Ratcliffe Woodward.

Pontius of Carthage

In the preface to the work, Pontius expresses regret there were detailed accounts of the martyrdoms of lay Christians, but none of a bishop like Cyprian who had so much worth narrating even without the martyrdom (1, 2).

Robert P. Pula

In 1993 he wrote the "Preface to the Fifth Edition" of Alfred Korzybski's Science and Sanity.

Shabbethai Donnolo

At the end of the preface is a table giving the position of the heavenly bodies in Elul 946.

Sibylline oracles

In 1545 Xystus Betuleius (Sixt Birck of Augsburg) published at Basel an edition of eight books of oracles with a preface dating from perhaps the 6th century AD, and the next year a version set in Latin verse appeared.

Stéphane Trano

The preface of Une Affaire d’Amitie was written by Jean Lacouture, the biographer of General Charles de Gaulle.

T. Carmi

He wrote the preface to a collection of Gabriel Preil's poems, Sunset Possibilities and Other Poems (1985).

Taboo

For example, J. M. Powis Smith, in his "The American Bible" (editor's preface 1927), used "taboo" occasionally in relation to Israel's Tabernacle and ceremonial laws, including Exodus 30:36, 29:37; Numbers 16:37,38; Deuteronomy 22:9, Isaiah 65:5, Ezekiel 44:19 and 46:20.

The Complete Compleat Enchanter

1989, US, Baen Books ISBN 0-671-69809-5, Pub date March 1989, Paperback as The Complete Compleat Enchanter with a preface by David Drake

The first US edition appeared under the title The Complete Compleat Enchanter, and replaces the foreword with a preface by David Drake.

The Masque of Anarchy

The poem was not published during Shelley's lifetime and did not appear in print until 1832 (see 1832 in poetry), when published by Edward Moxon in London with a preface by Leigh Hunt.

The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

It begins with a foreword by Charles Scribner II and a preface written by Bruccoli, after which the stories follow in chronological order of publication.

Vinland the Good

In his preface to the script, Shute says “I put a very little of the story into a novel which was published in 1939” – this was An Old Captivity, actually first published in 1940.

William Ballantyne Hodgson

He contributed a preface and notes to Horace Mann's Report of an Educational Tour in Germany, &c., 1846; edited, with Henry James Slack, the memorial edition (1865, &c.) of the Works of William Johnson Fox; and translated Count Cavour's Thoughts on Ireland, &c.

William Pleeth

Yehudi Menuhin wrote the introduction and Jacqueline du Pré the preface.

Wojciech Orliński

Mark Barber – Urban Legends (RM 2007) – preface to the Polish edition and a chapter about Polish urban legends


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