 | Lindley Murray - 1834 - 340 էջ
...office in an im* perfect and obscure manner. The following is an example of this kind of inaccuracy. " By greatness, I do not mean the bulk of any single object only, but the largeness of a whole view. Such are the prospects of an open champaign country, a vast uncultivated... | |
 | David Irving - 1836 - 407 էջ
...he did something besides meaning. The amr biguity may be removed by the following arrangement: " -^7 greatness, I do not mean the bulk of any single object only, but the largeness of a whole view." .. % In common conversation, the tone and emphasis which we use... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1837 - 230 էջ
...would have been wrong, for it might then be asked, what is meant beside the bulk? Is it the colour or any other property ? Its proper place is after...object only ;" for then, when it is asked, what does lie mean more than the bulk of a single object? the answer comes out precisely as the author intends,... | |
 | Abraham Mills, Hugh Blair - 1838 - 360 էջ
...he mean more than the bulk ! Is it the color ! Or any other property! Its proper place, undoubtedly, is, after the word object. ' By greatness, I do not...the bulk of any single object only ;' for then, when we put the question, What more does he mean than the bulk of a single object ! The answer comes out... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1843
...passions. 7. I was formerly engaged in that business, but I shall never be concerned in it again. 8. By greatness, I do not mean the bulk of any single object only, but the largeness of a whole view. 9. If Louis XIV. was not the greatest king, he was at least the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 50 էջ
...the bulk ? " Is it the color, or any other property ? Its proper place is after the word abject. " By greatness, I do not mean the bulk of any single...asked — What does he mean more than the bulk of •t single object ? the answer comes out precisely as the author intends, •* the largeness of a... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 271 էջ
...designed to mark the transition from one sentence to another are sometimes improperly employed. Thus, "By greatness I do not mean the bulk of any single object only, but the largeness of a whole view. Such are the prospects of an open champaign country, a vast uncultivated... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 429 էջ
...it might then be asked, " What is meant beside the bulk-? " Is it the color, or any other property 1 Its proper place is after the word object. " By greatness,...does he mean more than the bulk of a single object 1 the answer comes out precisely as the author intends, " the largeness of a whole view." This extract... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 429 էջ
...only makes it limit the verb mew. I do not only mean. The question may then be asked, " What does hi more than mean ? " Had it been placed after bulk,...more than the bulk of a single object ? the answer conies out precisely as the author intends, " the largeness of a whole view." This extract shows the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1854 - 429 էջ
...still it would have been wrong, for it might then be asked, " What is meant beside the balk ? " la it the color, or any other property ? Its proper place...does he mean more than the bulk of a single object 1 the answer comes oat precisely as the author intends, " the largeness of a whole view." This extract... | |
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By greatness, I do not mean the bulk of any single object only." For then, when it is asked — What does he mean more than the bulk of a single object ? the answer conies out precisely as the author intends, " the largeness of a whole view. 
