UNDER NOTE IV.—OF COMPARATIVES.
"Errours in Education should be less indulged than any."—Locke, on Ed., p. iv. "This was less his case than any man's that ever wrote."—Pref. to Waller. "This trade enriched some people more than it enriched them." [378]—Murray's Gram., Vol. i, p. 215. "The Chaldee alphabet, in which the Old Testament has reached us, is more beautiful than any ancient character known."—Wilson's Essay, p. 5. "The Christian religion gives a more lovely character of God, than any religion ever did."—Murray's Key, p. 169. "The temple of Cholula was deemed more holy than any in New Spain."—Robertson's America, ii, 477. "Cibber grants it to be a better poem of its kind than ever was writ."—Pope. "Shakspeare is more faithful to the true language of nature, than any writer."—Blair's Rhet., p. 468. "One son I had—one, more than all my sons, the strength of Troy."—Cowper's Homer. "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age."—Gen., xxxvii, 3.