prolegomena

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  • It will be attended with proeme, prolegomena, testimonia scriptorum, index authorum , and notes variorum . —  Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)
  • The complete poem was intended to appear with an elaborate mock commentary by Scriblerus, explaining some of the allusions, and with "proeme, prolegomena, testimonia scriptorum, index auctorum, and notæ variorum." —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Alexander Pope, by Leslie Stephen.
  • I take the scheme from his notebook After prolegomena, the physiology and morphology of lobster and dove; then through Invertebrates, Anodon, Actinia, and Vorticella Protozoa, to Molluscan types. —  The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley V.1
  • We will speak of these and of some others also Before beginning our critical statement, let us recall some of the results of our previous analyses which here intrude themselves, to use the ambitious language of Kant, as the prolegomena to every future solution which claims the title of science. —  The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps
  • The complete poem was intended to appear with an elaborate mock commentary by Scriblerus, explaining some of the allusions, and with "proeme, prolegomena, testimonia scriptorum, index auctorum, and notć variorum." —  Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series
 

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