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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. "
Lectures on rhetoric &c - Page 208
by Hugh Blair - 1820
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Essays on rhetoric: abridged chiefly from dr. Blair's lectures on that science

Hugh Blair - 1784 - 412 pages
...only mean the bulk of " any fingle object, but the largenefs " of a whole view." Here the fituation of the adverb only renders it a limitation of the...following word, mean. *' I do not only mean"— The queftion may then beafked, What does he more than mean ?. Had it been placed after bulk, ftill it would...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1787 - 482 pages
...in the Spectator, No. 412. " I do not only mean the bulk " of any fingle object, but the largenefs of a " whole view." Here the place of the adverb only,'...the following word, mean. " I do not only mean." The queftion may then be put, What does he more than mean ? Had he placed it after hulk, L.. vc T. ftill...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1793 - 518 pages
...bulk of any fmgle object, but the largenefs " of a whole view." Here the place of the adverb gz/y, renders it a limitation of the following word, mean. " I do not only mean." The queflion may then be put, what does he more than mean ? Had he placed it after bulk, flill it would...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - 1801 - 424 pages
...only mean the bulk of <e,..any single object, but the largeness of a whole " view." Here the situation of the adverb only renders it a limitation of the...I do not only mean." — The question may then be asked, What, does he more than mean? Had it been placed after bulk, still it would have been improperly...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1802 - 416 pages
...in the Spectator, No. 412.) "I do " not only mean the bulk of any fingle object, but the largenefs " of a whole view." Here the place of the adverb only,...limitation of the following word, mean. " I do not only K mean." The queftion may then be put, What does he more than mean ? Had he placed it after bull, ftill...
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Select British Classics, Volume 16

1803 - 376 pages
...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...
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1804 - 412 pages
...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 ehampain country, a vast uncultivated...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...jt 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 uncuU tivated...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 2

1807 - 530 pages
...pause, to another. EXAMPLES OF ILL ARRANGED WORDS AND SENTENCES. " By greatness," says Mr. Addison, " I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view." From the improper place in which the adverb only stands in this sentence, the question may be put—...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pages
...made to stand, prevailing and conspicuous. They are conspicuous, because they prevail. " 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." IB a former Lecture, when treating of the Structure of Sentences,...
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