 | 1803 - 376 lehte
...very disgust 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 lehte
...very disgust 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... | |
 | 1804 - 412 lehte
...very disgust 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 lehte
...reversed, and 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,... | |
 | 1807 - 530 lehte
...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—... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 178 lehte
...actions as are indiscreet, but very ofien to such as ate highly criminal. , By greab.e*s, I do ne>t only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view. I was euga^«d formerly in that business, but I never •shall be again concerned in it. We do those 4 lungs... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1809 - 456 lehte
...surrounded, but also " with a noble gratitude and divine pleasure",* When Add'ison says, (N° 412) " By greatness " I do not only mean the bulk of any single ob•" ject, but the largeness of a whole view," the question naturally occurs, what does he more than... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 lehte
...Sixtus the fourth was, If I mistake not, a great if I mistake not, a great collector Inelegant. colkctor of books at least. If Louis XIV. was not the greatest...single object, but the largeness of a whole view. The Romans understood liberty, at least, as wt;l as we. Setter thus. collector at least of books. If... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 362 lehte
...very disgust 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... | |
 | 1810 - 350 lehte
...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... | |
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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. 
