Other after the comparative form.
429. When an object is compared with the class to which it belongs, it is regularly excluded from that class by the word other; if not, the object would really be compared with itself: thus,—
The character of Lady Castlewood has required more delicacy in its manipulation than perhaps any other which Thackeray has drawn.—Trollope.
I used to watch this patriarchal personage with livelier curiosity than any other form of humanity.—Hawthorne.
Exercise.
See if the word other should be inserted in the following sentences:—
1. There was no man who could make a more graceful bow than Mr. Henry.—Wirt.
2. I am concerned to see that Mr. Gary, to whom Dante owes more than ever poet owed to translator, has sanctioned, etc.—Macaulay.
3. There is no country in which wealth is so sensible of its obligations as our own.—Lowell.
4. This is more sincerely done in the Scandinavian than in any mythology I know.—Carlyle.