9. Without were fightings, within were fears.
10. Business sweetens pleasure, as labor sweetens rest.
11. Justice appropriates rewards to merit, and punishments to crime.
12. On the one side, all was alacrity and courage; on the other, all was timidity and indecision.
13. The wise man is happy when he gains his own approbation; the fool, when he gains the applause of others.
14. His care was to polish the country by art, as he had protected it by arms.
In the following examples, the relative emphasis is applied to three sets of antithetic words.
15. The difference between a madman and a fool is, that the former reasons justly from false data; and the latter, erroneously from just data.
16. He raised a mortal to the skies,
She drew an angel down.
Sometimes the antithesis is implied, as in the following instances.