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Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books by Various
Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Who"s Who of World Literature: Bacon, Calvin, Caxton, Condell, Copernicus, Dryden, Fielding, Goethe, Heminge, Hugo, Johnson, Knox, Newton, Raleigh, Spenser, Taine, Whitman and Wordsworth. Eliot wrote in his preface to these prefaces, "No part of a book is so intimate as the Preface. Here, after the long labor of the work is over, the author descends from his platform, and speaks with his reader
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03 - Dedication of The Institutes of the Christian...
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05 - Dedication of The Revolutions of the Heavenly...
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06 - Preface to the History of the Reformation in...
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07 - Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on The...
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08 - Preface to The History of the World, Part 1
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09 - Preface to The History of the World, Part 2
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10 - Preface to The History of the World, Part 3
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11 - Preface to The History of the World, Part 4
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12 - Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 1
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13 - Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 2
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14 - Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 3
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15 - Preface to the First Folio Edition of...
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16 - Preface to The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia...
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17 - Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern, Part 1
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18 - Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern, Part 2
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