| Richard Hiley - 1867 - 224 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,... | |
| John Mulligan - 1868 - 608 էջ
...instance, in the oftquoted and oft censured passage in one of the papers of Addison : " 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." Here " only" to avoid obscurity, should have followed " object." (45)... | |
| John Hugh Hawley - 1868 - 298 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. 3. Not only England, but all Europe was alarmed. 4. Instead of looking contemptuously... | |
| William Rushton - 1869 - 352 էջ
...criticism. 438. We observe the following errors in the use of not only : Addison writes, By greatness I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of the whole view. — Spectator, No. 412. Dr. Blair, Rhetoric, Lecture xxi., says that the author intended... | |
| Henry Noble Day - 1870 - 232 էջ
...kid gloves. God heapeth favors on his servants, ever liberal and faithful. Under § 280. 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. The planets are... | |
| Alexander Reid - 1872 - 202 էջ
...was engaged formerly in that business, but I never shall be again concerned in it. 8. By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view. 9. If Louis XIV. was not the greatest king, he was the best actor of majesty, at least, that ever filled... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1872 - 248 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,' the same error is committed, and there is also a misplacement of the ' not' ' By greatness... | |
| William Swinton - 1872 - 238 էջ
...in the use of ' not only.' The following sentences will serve as illustrations : 1. By greatness I not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of the whole view. This should read, ' By greatness I mean not only the bulk,' etc. 2. Thales was not... | |
| John Mulligan - 1874 - 596 էջ
...instance, in the oftquoted and oft censured passage in one of the papers of Addison: " 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." Here " only" to avoid obscurity, should have followed " object" (45)... | |
| Andrew Dousa Hepburn - 1875 - 298 էջ
...ie, allowed and nothing more. " Theism can only be opposed to polytheism or atheism." " By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view.'' 4. The frequent repetition of pronouns in a sentence in which several persons or things are spoken... | |
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