"Poisoning, without regard of fame or fear;
And spotted corpses load the frequent bier."—Dryden cor.
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.