What is partly?

Famous quotes containing the word partly:

“What’s done we partly may compute,
But know not what’s resisted.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)

“A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

“He told me that the Indians were nearly all gone to the sea-board and to Massachusetts, partly on account of the smallpox—of which they are very much afraid—having broken out in Oldtown.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)