UNDER NOTE II.--OF FIXED NUMBERS.
"Why, I think she cannot be above six feet two inches high."--Spect. cor. "The world is pretty regular for about forty rods east and ten west."--Id. "The standard being more than two feet above it."--Bacon cor. "Supposing, among other things, that he saw two suns, and two Thebeses."--Id. "On the right hand we go into a parlour thirty-three feet by thirty-nine."--Sheffield cor. "Three pounds of gold went to one shield."--1 Kings cor. "Such an assemblage of men as there appears to have been at that session."--The Friend cor. "And, truly, he has saved me from this labour."--Barclay cor. "Within these three miles may you see it coming."--Shak. cor. "Most of the churches, not all, had one ruling elder or more."--Hutch. cor. "While a Minute Philosopher, not six feet high, attempts to dethrone the Monarch of the universe."--Berkley cor. "The wall is ten feet high."--Harrison cor. "The stalls must be ten feet broad."--Walker cor. "A close prisoner in a room twenty feet square, being at the north side of his chamber, is at liberty to walk twenty feet southward, not to walk twenty feet northward."--Locke cor. "Nor, after all this care and industry, did they think themselves qualified."--C. Orator cor. "No fewer than thirteen Gypsies were condemned at one Suffolk assize, and executed."--Webster cor. "The king was petitioned to appoint one person or more."--Mrs. Macaulay cor. "He carries weight! he rides a race! 'Tis for a thousand pounds."--Cowper cor. "They carry three tiers of guns at the head, and at the stern, two tiers"--Joh. Dict. cor. "The verses consist of two sorts of rhymes."--Formey cor. "A present of forty camel-loads of the most precious things of Syria."--Wood's Dict. cor. "A large grammar, that shall extend to every minutia"--S. Barrett cor.
"So many spots, like næves on Venus' soil,
One gem set off with many a glitt'ring foil."--Dryden cor.
"For, off the end, a double handful
It had devour'd, it was so manful."--Butler cor.
UNDER NOTE III.--OF RECIPROCALS.
"That shall and will might be substituted one for the other."--Priestley cor. "We use not shall and will promiscuously the one for the other."--Brightland cor. "But I wish to distinguish the three high ones from one an other also."--Fowle cor. "Or on some other relation which two objects bear to each other."--Blair cor. "Yet the two words lie so near to each other in meaning, that, in the present case, perhaps either of them would have been sufficient."--Id. "Both orators use great liberties in their treatment of each other."--Id. "That greater separation of the two sexes from each other."--Id. "Most of whom live remote from one an other."--Webster cor. "Teachers like to see their pupils polite to one an other"--Id. "In a little time, he and I must keep company with each other only."--Spect. cor. "Thoughts and circumstances crowd upon one an other."--Kames cor. "They cannot perceive how the ancient Greeks could understand one an other."--Lit. Conv. cor. "The poet, the patriot, and the prophet, vied with one an other in his breast."--Hazlitt cor. "Athamas and Ino loved each other."--C. Tales cor. "Where two things are compared or contrasted one with the other." Or: "Where two things, are compared or contrasted with each other."--Blair and Mur. cor. "In the classification of words, almost all writers differ from one an other."--Bullions cor.
"I will not trouble thee, my child. Farewell;
We'll no more meet; we'll no more see each other."--Shak. cor.
UNDER NOTE IV.--OF COMPARATIVES.
"Errors in education should be less indulged than any others."--Locke cor. "This was less his case than any other man's that ever wrote."--Pref. to Waller cor. "This trade enriched some other people more than it enriched them."--Mur. cor. "The Chaldee alphabet, in which the Old Testament has reached us, is more beautiful than any other ancient character known."--Wilson cor. "The Christian religion gives a more lovely character of God, than any other religion ever did."--Murray cor. "The temple of Cholula was deemed more holy than any other in New Spain."--Robertson cor. "Cibber grants it to be a better poem of its kind than any other that ever was written"--Pope cor. "Shakspeare is more faithful to the true language of nature, than any other writer."--Blair cor. "One son I had--one, more than all my other sons, the strength of Troy." Or: "One son I had--one, the most of all my sons, the strength of Troy."--Cowper cor. "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other children, because he was the son of his old age."--Bible cor.
UNDER NOTE V.--OF SUPERLATIVES.
"Of all simpletons, he was the greatest"--Nutting cor. "Of all beings, man has certainly the greatest reason for gratitude."--Id. "This lady is prettier than any of her sisters."--Peyton cor. "The relation which, of all the class, is by far the most fruitful of tropes, I have not yet mentioned."--Blair cor. "He studied Greek the most of all noblemen."--W. Walker cor. "And indeed that was the qualification which was most wanted at that time."--Goldsmith cor. "Yet we deny that the knowledge of him as outwardly crucified, is the best of all knowledge of him."--Barclay cor. "Our ideas of numbers are, of all our conceptions, the most accurate and distinct"--Duncan cor. "This indeed is, of all cases, the one in which it is least necessary to name the agent"--J. Q. Adams cor. "The period to which you have arrived, is perhaps the most critical and important moment of your lives."--Id. "Perry's royal octavo is esteemed the best of all the pronouncing dictionaries yet known."--D. H. Barnes cor. "This is the tenth persecution, and,
