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.