Maybe review over the text it’s talking about. I would help but there is not text for what you are needing help with. Try putting a photo of the text your questions are linked to? Then it would be easier to help with what your asking.
What it means is that he wouldn't have been able to get where he got if it hadn't been for the scientific achievements of his predecessors. If it hadn't been for these "giants" that enabled him to see so far, he wouldn't have been able to make all the discoveries that he did. For those coming after him, he was a giant that enabled them, and so laws and theories and scientific knowledge always increases based on the knowledge before it.
They focus on language, structure, and tone. they look at the authors state of mind and examine the meanings and relationships between form and meaning of how story is arranged. they also look at he history, and politics to see whats less or more important than what needs to be known for autonomous text.
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When they're quoting someone, or using information from a specific place.
It is ironical because because Ozmandias considered himself to be the strongest and most powerful, he also thought that he would be remembered forever will all his great works.
