But no longer?
Hi, everyone.
Could someone help me understand what the phrase "but no longer" means in this context? I mean, he is no longer what?
Lord Chesterfield wrote a letter to The World about Dr Johnson’s forthcoming Dictionary.
"I give my vote for Mr Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And I hereby declare that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a freeborn British subject, to the said Mr Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship. Nay more; I will not only obey him, like an old Roman, as my dictator, but, like a modern Roman, I will implicitly believe in him as my pope, and hold him to be infallible while in the chair; but no longer."
Thanks.
Top answer
Chesterfield will consider Johnson to be infallibkle as long as Johnson presides over the creation of the dictionary, but not longer than that. Chesterfield will feel free to criticize Johnson and his work when Johnson has finished the dictionary.
- Chesterfield will consider Johnson to be infallibkle as long as Johnson presides over the creation of the dictionary, but not longer than that.
- Chesterfield will feel free to criticize Johnson and his work when Johnson has finished the dictionary.
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Chesterfield will consider Johnson to be infallibkle as long as Johnson presides over the creation of the dictionary, but not longer than that. Chesterfield will feel free to criticize Johnson and his work when Johnson has finished the dictionary.
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