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 of all the ten the most bloody."--Sammes cor. "The English tongue is the most susceptible of sublime imagery, of all the languages in the world."--Bucke cor. "Of all writers whatever, Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention."--Pope cor. "In a version of this particular work, which, more than any other, seems to require a venerable, antique cast."--Id. "Because I think him the best-informed naturalist that has ever written."--Jefferson cor. "Man is capable of being the most social of all animals."--Sheridan cor. "It is, of all signs (or expressions) that which most moves us."--Id. "Which, of all articles, is the most necessary."--Id.  "Quoth he, 'This gambol thou advisest, Is, of all projects, the unwisest.'"--S. Butler cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.--OF INCLUSIVE TERMS.

"Noah and his family were the only antediluvians who survived the flood."--Webster cor. "I think it superior to any other grammar that we have yet had."--Blair cor. "We have had no other grammarian who has employed so much labour and judgement upon our native language, as has the author of these volumes."--British Critic cor. "Those persons feel most for the distresses of others, who have experienced distresses themselves."--L. Murray cor. "Never was any other people so much infatuated as the Jewish nation."--''Id. et al. cor. "No other tongue is so full of connective particles as the Greek."--Blair cor. "Never was sovereign'' so much beloved by the people." Or: "Never was any other sovereign so much beloved by his people."--L. Murray cor. "Nothing else ever affected her so much as this misconduct of her child."--''Id. et al. cor. "Of all the figures of speech, no other comes so near to painting as does metaphor."--Blair et al. cor. "I know no other writer so happy in his metaphors as is Mr. Addison."--Blair cor. "Of all the English authors, none is more happy in his metaphors than Addison."--Jamieson cor. "Perhaps no other writer in the world was ever so frugal of his words as Aristotle."--Blair and Jamieson cor. "Never was any other writer so happy in that concise and spirited style, as Mr. Pope."--Blair cor. "In the harmonious structure and disposition of his periods, no other writer whatever, ancient or modern, equals Cicero."--Blair and Jamieson cor. "Nothing else delights me so much as the works of nature."--L. Mur. cor. "No person was ever more perplexed than he has been to-day."--Id. "In no other case are writers so apt to err, as in the position of the word only."--Maunder cor. "For nothing is more tiresome than perpetual uniformity."--Blair cor.'' "Naught else sublimes the spirit, sets it free,   Like sacred and soul-moving poesy."--Sheffield cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.--EXTRA COMPARISONS.

"How much better are ye than the fowls!"--Bible cor. "Do not thou hasten above the Most High."--Esdras cor. "This word, PEER, is principally used for the nobility of the realm."--Cowell cor. "Because the same is not only most generally received, &c."--Barclay cor. "This is, I say, not the best and most important evidence."--Id. "Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the Most High."--The Psalter cor. "The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High."--Id. "As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first great lesson that should be taught them, is, to admire frugality."--Goldsmith cor. "More general terms are put for such as are more restricted."--Rev. J. Brown cor. "This, this was the unkindest cut of all."--Enfield's Speaker, p. 353. "To take the basest and most squalid shape."--''Shak. cor. "I'll forbear: I have fallen out with my more heady will."--Id. "The power of the Most High guard thee from sin."--Percival cor. "Which title had been more true, if the dictionary had been in Latin and Welsh."--Verstegan cor. "The waters are frozen sooner and harder, than further upward, within the inlands."--Id. "At every descent, the worst may become more depraved."--Mann cor.'' "Or as a moat defensive to a house   Against the envy of less happy lands."--''Shak. cor.''

"A dreadful quiet felt, and worse by far   Than arms, a sullen interval of war."--Dryden cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.--ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

"It breaks forth in its highest, most energetic, and most impassioned strain."--Kirkham cor. "He has fallen into the vilest and grossest sort of railing."--Barclay cor. "To receive that higher and more general instruction which the public affords."--J. O. Taylor cor. "If the best things have the best and most perfect operations."--Hooker cor. "It became the plainest and most elegant, the richest and most splendid, of all languages."--Bucke cor. "But the principal and most frequent use of pauses, is, to mark the divisions of the sense."--Blair cor. "That every thing belonging to ourselves is the best and the most perfect."--Clarkson cor. "And to instruct their pupils in the best and most thorough manner."--School Committee cor.

UNDER NOTE IX.--ADJECTIVES SUPERADDED.

"The Father is figured out as a venerable old man."--Brownlee cor. "There never was exhibited an other such masterpiece of ghostly assurance."--Id. "After the first three sentences, the question is entirely lost."--''Spect. cor. "The last four parts of speech are commonly called particles."--Al. Murray cor. "The last two chapters will not be found deficient in this respect."--Todd cor. "Write upon your slates a list of the first ten nouns."--J. Abbott cor. "We have a few remains of two other Greek poets in the pastoral style, Moschus and Bion."--Blair cor.'' "The