Quotes about preface
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Quotes about preface

“[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.”
Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

Source: On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters
"Brotherhood by Inversion", p. 329-330
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998)
“Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw’s prefaces.”
Ego, p. 276, March 10, 1933.

In The Discovery of Hypnosis: The Complete Writings of James Braid, the Father ... http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Vs35STwQYQoC&pg=PA200&lpg=PA200, p. 200.

1850s, Two Discourses at Friday Communion (August 1851)

How Luther's theology may have influenced his translating

Steven Shapin, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (1994)

Source: 1850s, Practice in Christianity (September 1850), p. xii

Source: J. A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study: A Centennial Retrospective (2002), p. 3.
Preface
Henri Poincaré, Critic of Crisis: Reflections on His Universe of Discourse (1954)

1850s, Two Discourses at Friday Communion (August 1851)

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1916/oct/11/statement-by-prime-minister in the House of Commons (11 October 1916)
Secretary of State for War
Preface to third edition; Partly cited in: Vanda Broughton (2011) " Brian Vickery and the Classification Research Group: the legacy of faceted classification http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/papers/broughton.pdf" p. 6
Classification and indexing in science (1958)

The Superstition of Divorce (1920)

“Translated by Todd Nichol along with Prefaces 1997”
1840s, Writing Sampler (1844)

Preface, The Noël Coward Song Book, pp. 12–13.

“This volume was written for children. Miss Landon set out its purpose in the preface.”
Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)

Abstract
Outlines of a Philosophy of Art, 1925

September 14, 1777, p. 341
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“Please don't read the preface for the teacher.”
Grundlagen der Analysis [Foundations of Analysis] (1930) Preface for the Student, as quoted by Eli Maor, Trigonometric Delights (2013)

Review of a life of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley by Edward Nares, Edinburgh Review, 1832)
Attributed

William Joyce, Twilight over England (Internationaler Verlag, Berlin, 1940), preface.
Reading confers status.
A Voice from the Attic (1960)

Which Greek and Hebrew texts of the Bible did Luther use?

Address to the Society for Psychical Research (1897)
Context: I see no good reason why any man of scientific mind should shut his eyes to our work or deliberately stand aloof from it. Our Proceedings are, of course, not exactly parallel to the Proceedings of a society dealing with a long-established branch of science. In every form of research there must be a beginning. We own to much that is tentative, much that may turn out erroneous. But it is thus, and thus only, that each science in turn takes its stand. I venture to assert that both in actual careful record of new and important facts, and in suggestiveness, our society's work and publications will form no unworthy preface to a profounder science both of man, of nature, and of "worlds not realized" than this planet has yet known.

“Logically speaking, even the life of an actor has no preface. He begins, and that is all.”
Preface
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)
Context: Logically speaking, even the life of an actor has no preface. He begins, and that is all. And such beginning is usually obscure; but faintly remembered at the best. Art is a completion; not merely a history of endeavour. It is only when completeness has been obtained that the beginnings of endeavour gain importance, and that the steps by which it has been won assume any shape of permanent interest. After all, the struggle for supremacy is so universal that the matters of hope and difficulty of one person are hardly of general interest. When the individual has won out from the huddle of strife, the means and steps of his succeeding become of interest, either historically or in the educational aspect — but not before. From every life there may be a lesson to some one; but in the teeming millions of humanity such lessons can but seldom have any general or exhaustive force. The mere din of strife is too incessant for any individual sound to carry far. Fame, who rides in higher atmosphere, can alone make her purpose heard. Well did the framers of picturesque idea understand their work when in her hand they put a symbolic trumpet.

On the Educational Value of the Medical Society (1903)
Context: Surrounded by people who demand certainty, — and not philosopher enough to agree with Locke that "Probability supplies the defect of our knowledge and guides us when that fails, and is always conversant about things of which we have no certainty," the practitioner too often gets into a habit of mind which resents the thought that opinion, not full knowledge, must be his stay and prop. There is no discredit, though there is at times much discomfort, in this everlasting perhaps with which we have to preface so much connected with the practice of our art. It is, as I said, inherent in the subject.

The Astronomer by John Updike from Pigeon Feathers: and other stories p. 125 1959, 1962 Ballantine Books
a year ; and Hartlib afterwards, the better to fulfil the intentions of his benefactor, procured Dr. Beati's excellent annotations on the Legacy, with other valuable pieces from bis numerous correspondents.
Source: Essays on Husbandry (1764), p. 3.
a year ; and Hartlib afterwards, the better to fulfil the intentions of his benefactor, procured Dr. Beati's excellent annotations on the Legacy, with other valuable pieces from bis numerous correspondents.
Walter Harte. Essays on Husbandry (1764), p. 3.

or try (and fail) to remember the name of some professor mentioned in some newspaper; and the keen rationalism of the modern mind will accept every word you say.
The Superstition of Divorce (1920)