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Example sentences for "know only"

  • We know only that he was a monk of Gloucester Abbey, that he lived in the reigns of Henry III.

  • Whence have we any grounds for assuming that that which we know only in connection with a certain peculiar organization exists elsewhere?

  • Nor do we know motion as something apart from matter, moving it; we know no abstract motion; we know only things as moving, changing, and resisting motion.

  • Natuerliche Schoepfungsgeschichte," as well as the passage before referred to in which it is asserted that we know only causae efficientes, never causae finales.

  • Of this expedition we know only that he actually succeeded in travelling round the whole island, thanks to the resolution which led him to spend on this self-imposed task two winters and three summers.

  • Because we know only that of which we can conceive, in the sense of forming an adequate mental image.

  • But this is simply to say that we know only that which we come into mental contact with, that is, we know only what we know.

  • We can regard this assertion only as the utterance of a primitive belief in a first cause, not as the conclusion of logical demonstration, for we know only an infinitesimal part of the universe.

  • Therefore, what follows upon the resolution so betrayed, we cannot properly perceive; we know only that it in all likelihood consists of what succeeds it, i.

  • What form we seem to them to bear we know not; we know only that we terrify even those whom we most wish to comfort, and from whom we most crave tenderness and sympathy.

  • I know only that my first consciousness was of maturity in body and mind--a consciousness accepted without surprise or conjecture.

  • I know only that I passed days and days trying to meet her, and all in vain; she was invisible as well as inaudible.

  • Whether Mrs. Davis is sincere or not I do not know, and will not even enter upon that now; I know only that no sister could have shown more sympathy and solicitude.

  • I know only that if I knelt down, beat my head on the floor, prayed, and cried out for mercy, I might move a mountain sooner than move that power.

  • I know only that my whole being was absorbed by one woman, and I understood for the first time the void created by the death of a dearly loved being.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    flesh whitish; good long; know also; know how; know just; know much; know myself; know she; know well; know whar; know what you are; know when; know where; know whom; knowing nothing; knowing the; knowing what; known from; known passage; known species; known unto; known work; known works; knows what; less numerous; thing done