, to prepare matters."--_Dr. Brown
cor._ "So we say, that _Cicero's_ style and _Sallust's_ were not one; nor
_Caesar's_ and _Livy's_; nor _Homer's_ and _Hesiod's_; nor _Herodotus's_ and
_Thucydides's_; nor _Euripides's_ and _Aristophanes's_; nor _Erasmus's_ and
_Budaeus's_."--_Puttenham cor._ "LEX (i.e., _legs_, a _law_,) is no other
than our _ancestors'_ past participle _loeg, laid down_"--_Tooke cor._
"Achaia's sons at Ilium slain for the _Atridoe's_ sake."--_Cowper cor._
"The _corpses_ of her senate manure the fields of Thessaly."--_Addison
cor._

"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