“Naught else sublimes the
spirit, sets it free,
Like sacred and soul-moving
poesy.”—Sheffield cor.
UNDER NOTE VII.—EXTRA COMPARISONS.
“How much better are ye than the fowls!”—Bible cor. “Do not thou hasten above the Most High.”—Esdras cor. “This word, PEER, is principally used for the nobility of the realm.”—Cowell cor. “Because the same is not only most generally received, &c.”—Barclay cor. “This is, I say, not the best and most important evidence.”—Id. “Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the Most High.”—The Psalter cor. “The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High.”—Id. “As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first great lesson that should be taught them, is, to admire frugality.”—Goldsmith cor. “More general terms are put for such as are more restricted.”—Rev. J. Brown cor. “This, this was the unkindest cut of all.”—Enfield’s Speaker, p. 353. “To take the basest and most squalid shape.”—Shak. cor. “I’ll forbear: I have fallen out with my more heady will.”—Id. “The power of the Most High guard thee from sin.”—Percival cor. “Which title had been more true, if the dictionary had been in Latin and Welsh.”—Verstegan cor. “The waters are frozen sooner and harder, than further upward, within the inlands.”—Id. “At every descent, the worst may become more depraved.”—Mann cor.