"Preface" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... an account is given in the preface to the notes, and the few other old tunes which do not fall into either of the two above-mentioned classes, were included for the ...
— A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing • Robert Bridges
... the dust and to brush out all the nooks and corners," she used to say to Theodora and Ellen; and when, at stated intervals, it became necessary, in her opinion, to clean the wood-house and other out-buildings, or the cellar, she would generally preface the announcement by saying to them at the breakfast table, "You must get me some broom-stuff, to-day, some of that green cedar down in the swamp below the pasture. I want enough for two or three brooms. Sprig off a ...
— When Life Was Young - At the Old Farm in Maine • C. A. Stephens
... in the Preface to his Spiritism and Psychology, made the remark: "It will be a great day when the subliminal psychology of Myers and his followers, and the abnormal psychology of Freud and his school, succeed in meeting, and will supplement and complete one another. That will be a great forward ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
... work of the learned Icelander exhibits) 'a text formed according to his ideas of Anglo-Saxon, and accompanied by his Latin translation, both the one and the other standing equally in need of an Oedipus.' —Edition of 1855, Preface, xiv. ...
— The Translations of Beowulf - A Critical Biography • Chauncey Brewster Tinker
... though ordinarily invisible, to have had the faculty of rendering themselves visible when they thought proper, and assuming what shape they pleased. These are principally known by the names of Peris, Dives, [146] and Gins, or Genii. Richardson, in the preface to his Persian Dictionary, from which our account will principally be taken, refers us to what he calls a romance, but from which he, appears to derive the outline of his Persian mythology. In this romance Kahraman, a mortal, is introduced ...
— Lives of the Necromancers • William Godwin
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