We are forced to notice it, not, indeed, as being in the least authenticated, but simply on account of the authority recently claimed for the tradition.
The second and smaller rule, that really follows from this, is that everything dramatic should depend not on a character's action, but simply on his appearance.
They felt that it was by no merit of theirs that they had been enabled to enter into the life before the Romans, but simply as a result of the fact that Christ had appeared in Galilee and not in Rome.
We have to accept it in the same kind of way--without in the least understanding it, but simply because we cannot fail to see it.
Her eyes shone in the lamplight as she turned them on me--not startled like another child, but simply questioning.
Not because you wanted me, not because you thought or cared about me, one way or the other, but simply because, in a time of urgent necessity, I was literally the only available woman near you.
I do not pretend to solve the problem, but simply record my opinion that under circumstances as they still exist I should not willingly select a frontier life for my children.
They tumble down with sufficient violence and the usual fantastic disposition of their forces; but simply as cataracts within a day's journey of Niagara, they would be nothing.
It had happened that in my fury I did not even ask him what he wanted, but simply raised my head sharply and imperiously and began staring back at him.
I am not a hero to you now, as I tried to seem before, but simply a nasty person, an impostor.
And it was not from any interested motive that they grovelled, but simply because he had been favoured by the gifts of nature.
Naturally this applies to only those nations whose civilisation has reached such a stage that the employment of complex instruments of labour is prevented, not by their ignorance, but simply by their social political helplessness.
Not even the most intangible reproach can attach to training in such a public orphanage, for the children are not the children of poverty, but simply orphans.
A 'clearing system,' which really included everything, made these numberless debit and credit operations possible with scarcely any employment of actual money, but simply by additions to and subtractions from the accounts in the books.
The difference between the two lies not in the brain and in the heart, but simply in the stomach; the second simply endures physical suffering over and above the psychical and intellectual suffering of the first.
A neuter verb is a verb that expresses neither action nor passion, but simply being, or a state of being.
A neuter verb is a verb that expresses neither action nor passion, but simply being, or a state of being; as, "There was light.
My own form of the question I answer thus: "The highest of the higher is not higher than the rest are higher, but simply higher than they are high.
For I have demonstrated that the evil which God permitted was not an object of his will, as an end or a means, but simply as a condition, since it had to be involved in the best.
Much more than that, I explain how evil has a source other than the will of God, and that one is right therefore to say of moral evil that God wills it not, but simply permits it.
They were simply interested in the great men, and not interested in what make the great men different from other people, but simply in their resemblance to other people.
Not because I was so very clever or smart, but simply because I happened to be at hand.
And there we remained amongst the Poles from all parts of Poland, not officially interned, but simply unable to obtain the permission to travel by train, or road.
That those institutions in the course of time tended to assimilation with the Polish form was not the result of any pressure, but simply of the superior character of Polish civilisation.
Now, on the contrary, Schlosser wonders not at all, but simply criticises; which we could bear, if the criticism were even ingenious.
Not that we for protection need their aid, But simply to increase and multiply.
Not that I think she needs my humble lay, Who with such treasure can herself supply: But simply to appay my single end, That gentle dame to honour and commend.
Consequently the action done is a deficient good, which is good in a certain respect, but simply evil.
Accordingly when a man hopes to obtain something by his own power, he is not said to wait for it, but simply to hope for it.
No, not to convert readers, but simply to put my own state of mind upon record publicly is the purpose of my present writing.
This does not mean that the department would "interfere" with the commander-in-chief, but simply that it would assist him.
So, the next paragraph is not intended to detract in the slightest from Sherman and his army, but simply to point out the change in conditions that mechanical progress has brought about.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but simply" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
