 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 էջ
...gives us, as any of these three qualifications are most conspicuous and prevailing. By greatness, 1 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1824 - 510 էջ
...there is often a good deal of nicety. " By greatness," says Mr. Addison, in the Spectator, No. 412, "1 do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but...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... | |
 | 1824 - 268 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... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 184 էջ
...such actions as are indiscreet, but very often to such as are highly criminal. By greatness, I do not mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view. I was engaged formerly ii that business, but I never shall be again concerned in it. We do those things... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 190 էջ
...such actions as are indiscreet, but very often to such as are highly criminal. By greatness, I do not mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view. I was engaged formerly in that business, but I never shall be again concerned in it. We do those things... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 268 էջ
...troublesome. such actions as are indiscreet, but very often to such as are highly criminal. By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view. I was engaged formerly in that business, but I never'shall be again concerned in it. We do those things... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 էջ
...afforded. 19. We do those things frequently, that we repent of afterwards. 20. By greatness, I do not mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view. 21. It would appear, that for the cause of liberty, though paradoxical, neither hopes nor fears can... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1830 - 490 էջ
...arrangement, and many of our best writers frequently adopt it. When Addison says(Spec. No. 412), "By greatness I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view," the question naturally occurs, what does he more than mean ? It is evident that, agreeably to this... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 էջ
...of these three qualifications, the corresponding verb ought to have been singular. ' 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.' A part of this sentence, it will be recollected, was criticised in... | |
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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. 
