 | Peter Bullions - 1859 - Страниц: 250
...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 - Страниц: 652
...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...only mean. ' The question may then be put, What does be more than mean? Had he placed it after bulk, Mill it would have heen wrong. ' I do not mean the... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1862 - Страниц: 192
...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 - Страниц: 266
...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 - Страниц: 446
...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,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1872 - Страниц: 250
...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 - Страниц: 238
...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 - Страниц: 596
...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 - Страниц: 298
...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... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1877 - Страниц: 328
...some consider. • able object was once set before him. Addison is guilty of saying, " By greatness I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of the whole view."' If ho did not only mean, what did he more than mean (5) The proper use of the pronoun... | |
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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. 
