 | Peter Bullions - 1857 - 264 էջ
...measures proposed, he failed of success. (940) Theism can only he opposed to polytheism. By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the distinctness of a whole view. Only you have I known.of all the nations of the earth. In promoting the... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1858 - 216 էջ
...greatest king, he was the best actor of majesty, at least, that ever filled a throne. By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view. There will be found a million of creatures in human figure, throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence,... | |
 | Peter Bullions - 1859 - 250 էջ
...and to call together his friends. (Obs. 2.) Theism can only be opposed to polytheism. By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view. Only you have I known, of all the nations of the earth. In using every exertion in our power for the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1860 - 652 էջ
...greatness,' says Mr. Aildison, in the Spectator, No. 412, ' I do not only mean the bulk ol any sinçle object, but the largeness of a whole view.' Here the place of the adverb only, renders it a limitation of the following word mean. ' I do not only mean. ' The question may then be... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1862 - 192 էջ
...or two ago, who did not practise it for any oblique reason, but purely for the sake of being witty. I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view. Theism can only be opposed to Polytheism or Atheism. Avarice is a- crime which wise men are often guilty... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1863 - 266 էջ
...is a private Father. The ' only ' should be omitted. In the passage from Addison, — ' By greatness I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of the whole view,' tl;e same error is committed, and there is also a misplacement of the 'not.' 'By greatness... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1863 - 446 էջ
...appear. This rule is frequently neglected, even by good writers. Thus, Mr. Addison says, " By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the tnan mean ? " Had it been placed after bulk, still it would have been wrong, for it might then be asked,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - 344 էջ
...it gives us, as any of these three qualifications are most conspicuous and prevailing. By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece. Such are the prospects of an open champaign country, a vast uncultivated... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1865 - 166 էջ
...nothing to do with the nouns to which they are put. 2 — On the Place of the Adverb. 2. By greatness I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of the whole view. 8. Not only England, but all Europe was alarmed. 4. Instead of looking contemptuously... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1866 - 170 էջ
...Thales was famous, not only for his knowledge of nature, but also for his moral wisdom. By greatness I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of the whole. — Addison. Should be : By greatness I mean, not (only) the bulk of any single object,... | |
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By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece. 
