Chapter IV: Adjectives

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF COMPARISON, &c.

LESSON I.--DEGREES.

"I have the real excuse of the _most honest_ sort of bankrupts."--_Cowley corrected_. "The _most honourable_ part of talk, is, to give the occasion."--_Bacon cor._ "To give him one of the _most modest_ of his own proverbs."--_Barclay cor._ "Our language is now, certainly, _more proper_ and more natural, than it was formerly."--_Burnet cor._ "Which will be of the _greatest_ and _most frequent_ use to him in the world."--_Locke cor._ "The same is notified in the _most considerable_ places in the diocese."--_Whitgift cor._ "But it was the _most dreadful_ sight that ever I saw."--_Bunyan cor._ "Four of the _oldest_, soberest, and discreetest of the brethren, chosen for the occasion, shall regulate it."--_Locke cor._ "Nor can there be any clear understanding of any Roman author, especially of _more ancient_ time, without this skill."--_W. Walker cor._ "Far the _most learned_ of the Greeks."--_Id._ "The _more learned_ thou art, the humbler be thou."--_Id._ "He is none of the best, or _most honest_."--_Id._ "The _most proper_ methods of communicating it to others."--_Burn cor._ "What heaven's great King hath _mightiest_ to send against us."--_Milton cor._ "Benedict is not the _most unhopeful_ husband that I know."--_Shakspeare cor._ "That he should immediately do all the meanest and _most trifling_ things himself."--_Ray cor._ "I shall be named among the _most renowned_ of women."--_Milton cor._ "Those have the _most inventive_ heads for all purposes."--_Ascham cor._ "The _more wretched_ are the contemners of all helps."--_B. Johnson cor._ "I will now deliver a few of the _most proper_ and _most natural_ considerations that belong to this piece."--_Wotton cor._ "The _most mortal_ poisons practised by the _West Indians_, have some mixture of the blood, fat, or flesh of man."--_Bacon cor._ "He so won upon him, that he rendered him one of the _most faithful_ and _most affectionate_ allies the Medes ever had."--_Rollin cor._ "'You see before you,' says he to him, 'the most devoted servant, and the _most faithful_ ally, you ever had.'"--_Id._ "I chose the _most flourishing_ tree in all the park."--_Cowley cor._ "Which he placed, I think, some centuries _earlier_ than _did_ Julius Africanus afterwards."--_Bolingbroke cor._ "The Tiber, the _most noted_ river of Italy."--_Littleton cor._

"To _farthest_ shores th' ambrosial spirit flies."--_Pope_.

----"That what she wills to do or say,
Seems wisest, _worthiest_, discreetest, best."--_Milton cor._

LESSON II.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"During the _first three or four_ years of its existence."--_Taylor cor._ "To the first of these divisions, my _last ten_ lectures have been devoted."--_Adams cor._ "There are, in the twenty-four states, not _fewer_ than sixty thousand common schools."--_J. O. Taylor cor._ "I know of nothing which gives teachers _more_ trouble, _than_ this want of firmness."--_Id._ "I know of nothing _else_ that throws such darkness over the line which separates right from wrong."--_Id._ "None need this purity and _this_ simplicity of language and thought, _more than does the instructor of a common school_."--_Id._ "I know of no _other_ periodical that is so valuable to the teacher, as the Annals of Education."--_Id._ "Are not these schools of the highest importance? Should not every individual feel _a deep_ interest in their character and condition?"--_Id._ "If instruction were made a _liberal_ profession, teachers would feel more sympathy for _one an other_."--_Id._ "Nothing is _more interesting to_ children, _than_ novelty, _or_ change."--_Id._ "I know of no _other_ labour which affords so much happiness as the teacher's."--_Id._ "Their school exercises are the most pleasant and agreeable _duties_, that they engage in."--_Id._ "I know of no exercise _more_ beneficial to the pupil _than_ that of drawing maps."--_Id._ "I know of nothing in which our district schools are _more_ defective, _than_ they are in the art of teaching grammar."--_Id._ "I know of _no other branch of knowledge_, so easily acquired as history."--_Id._ "I know of _no other school exercise_ for which pupils usually have such an abhorrence, as _for_ composition."--_Id._ "There is nothing _belonging to_ our fellow-men, which we should respect _more sacredly than_ their good name."--_Id._ "_Surely_, never any _other creature_ was so unbred as that odious man."--_Congreve cor._ "In the dialogue between the mariner and the shade of the _deceased_."--_Phil. Museum cor._ "These master-works would still be less excellent and _finished_."--_Id._ "Every attempt to staylace the language of _polished_ conversation, renders our phraseology inelegant and clumsy."--_Id._ "Here are a few of the _most unpleasant_ words that ever blotted paper."--_Shakespeare cor._ "With the most easy _and obliging_ transitions."--_Broome cor._ "Fear is, of all affections, the _least apt_ to admit any conference with reason."--_Hooker cor._ "Most chymists think glass a body _less destructible_ than gold itself."--_Boyle cor._ "To part with _unhacked_ edges, and bear back our barge undinted."--_Shak. cor._ "Erasmus, who was an _unbigoted_ Roman Catholic, was transported with this passage."--_Addison cor._ "There are no _fewer_ than five words, with any of which the sentence might have terminated."--_Campbell cor._ "The _ones_ preach Christ of contention; but the _others_, of love." Or, "The _one party_ preach," &c.--_Bible cor._ "Hence we find less discontent and _fewer_ heart-burnings, than where the subjects are unequally burdened."--_H. Home, Ld. Kames, cor._

"The serpent, _subtlest_ beast of all the field."
--_Milton, P. L._, B. ix, l. 86.

"Thee, Serpent, _subtlest_ beast of all the field,
I knew, but not with human voice indued."
--_Id., P. L._, B. ix, l. 560.

"How much more grievous would our lives appear.
To reach th' _eight-hundredth_, than the eightieth year!"
--_Denham cor._

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"Brutus engaged with Aruns; and so fierce was the attack, that they pierced _each other_ at the same time."--_Lempriere cor._ "Her two brothers were, one after _the other_, turned into stone."--_Kames cor._ "Nouns are often used as adjectives; as, A _gold_ ring, a _silver_ cup."--_Lennie cor._ "Fire and water destroy _each other_"--_Wanostrocht cor._ "Two negatives, in English, destroy _each other_, or are equivalent to an affirmative."--_Lowth, Murray, et al. cor._ "Two negatives destroy _each other_, and are generally equivalent to an affirmative."--_Kirkham and Felton cor._ "Two negatives destroy _each other_, and make an affirmative."--_Flint cor._ "Two negatives destroy _each other_, being equivalent to an affirmative."--_Frost cor._ "Two objects, resembling _each other_, are presented to the imagination."--_Parker cor._ "Mankind, in order to hold converse with _one an other_, found it necessary to give names to objects."--_Kirkham cor._ "_Derivative_ words are _formed_ from _their primitives_ in various ways."--_Cooper cor._ "There are many _different_ ways of deriving words _one from an other_."--_Murray cor._ "When several verbs _have a joint construction_ in a sentence, the auxiliary is usually _expressed_ with the first _only_."--_Frost cor._ "Two or more verbs, having the same nominative case, and _coming in immediate succession_, are also separated by _the comma_."--_Murray et al. cor._ "Two or more adverbs, _coming in immediate succession_, must be separated by _the comma_."--_Iidem_. "If, however, the _two_ members are very closely connected, the comma is _unnecessary_."--_Iidem_. "Gratitude, when exerted towards _others_, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a _generous_ man."--_L. Murray cor._ "Several verbs in the infinitive mood, _coming in succession_, and having a common dependence, are also divided by commas."--_Comly cor._ "The several words of which it consists, have so near a relation _one to an other_."--_Murray et al. cor._ "When two or more verbs, or two or more adverbs,[528] _occur in immediate succession_, and have a common dependence, they must be separated by _the comma_."--_Comly cor._ "_One noun_ frequently _follows an other_, both meaning the same thing."--_Sanborn cor._ "And these two tenses may thus answer _each other_."--_R. Johnson cor._ "Or some other relation which two objects bear to _each other_."--_Jamieson cor._ "That the heathens tolerated _one an other_ is allowed."--_A. Fuller cor._ "And yet these two persons love _each other_ tenderly."--_E. Reader cor._ "In the six _hundred_ and first year."--_Bible cor._ "Nor is this arguing of his, _any thing_ but a _reiterated_ clamour."--_Barclay cor._ "In _several_ of them the inward life of Christianity is to be found."--_Ib._ "Though Alvarez, _Despauter_, and _others, do not allow it_ to be plural."--_R. Johnson cor._ "Even the most _dissipated_ and shameless blushed at the sight."--_Lempriere cor._ "We feel a _higher_ satisfaction in surveying the life of animals, _than_ [_in contemplating_] that of vegetables."-- _Jamieson cor._ "But this man is so _full-fraught_ with malice."--_Barclay cor._ "That I suggest some things concerning the _most proper_ means."--_Dr. Blair cor._

"So, hand in hand, they passed, the loveliest pair
That ever _yet_ in love's embraces met."--_Milton cor._

"Aim at _supremacy_; without _such height_,
Will be for thee no sitting, or not long."--_Id. cor._