UNDER NOTE XIV.—­WHOLE, LESS, MORE, AND MOST.

“Does not all proceed from the law, which regulates all the departments of the state?”—­Blair cor. “A messenger relates to Theseus all the particulars.”—­Ld.  Kames cor. “There are no fewer than twenty-nine diphthongs in the English language.”—­Ash cor. “The Redcross Knight runs through all the steps of the Christian life.”—­Spect. cor. “There were not fewer than fifty or sixty persons present.”—­Mills and Merchant cor. “Greater experience, and a more cultivated state of society, abate the warmth of imagination, and chasten the manner of expression.”—­Blair and Murray cor. “By which means, knowledge, rather than oratory, has become the principal requisite.”—­Blair cor. “No fewer than seven illustrious cities disputed the right of having given birth to the greatest of poets.”—­Lempriere cor. “Temperance, rather than medicines, is the proper means of curing many diseases.”—­Murray cor. “I do not suppose, that we Britons are more deficient in genius than our neighbours.”—­Id. “In which, he says, he has found no fewer than twelve untruths.”—­Barclay cor. “The several places of rendezvous were concerted, and all the operations were fixed.”—­Hume cor. “In these rigid opinions, all the sectaries concurred.”—­Id. “Out of whose modifications have been made nearly all complex modes.”—­Locke cor. “The Chinese vary each of their words on no fewer than five different tones.”—­Blair cor. “These people, though they possess brighter qualities, are not so proud as he is, nor so vain as she.”—­Murray cor. “It is certain, that we believe our own judgements more firmly, after we have made a thorough inquiry into the things.”—­Brightland cor. “As well as the whole course and all the reasons of the operation.”—­Id. “Those rules and principles which are of the greatest practical advantage.”—­Newman cor. “And all curse shall be no more.”—­Rev. cor.—­(See the Greek.) “And death shall be no more.”—­Id. “But, in recompense, we have pleasanter pictures of ancient manners.”—­Blair cor. “Our language has suffered a greater number of injurious changes in America, since the British army landed on our shores, than it had suffered before, in the period of three centuries.”—­Webster cor.  “All the conveniences of life are derived from mutual aid and support in society.”—­Ld.  Kames cor.

UNDER NOTE XV.—­PARTICIPIAL ADJECTIVES.