"From these various causes, which in greater or lesser degree, affected every individual in the colony, the indignation of the people became general."—Robertson's History of America.
"The extremest parts of the earth were meditating a submission."—Atterbury's Sermons.
"The last are indeed more preferable because they are founded on some new knowledge or improvement in the mind of man."—Addison, Spectator.
"This was in reality the easiest manner of the two."—Shaftesbury's Advice to an Author.
"In every well formed mind this second desire seems to be the strongest of the two."—Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments.
In these examples the superlative is wrongly used for the comparative. When only two objects are compared the comparative form must be used.
Of impossibility there are no degrees of comparison, yet we find the following:
"As it was impossible they should know the words, thoughts and secret actions of all men, so it was more impossible they should pass judgment on them according to these things."—Whitby's Necessity of the Christian Religion.
A great number of authors employ adjectives for adverbs. Thus we find:
"I shall endeavor to live hereafter suitable to a man in my station."—Addison.