UNDER NOTE V.—­OF SUPERLATIVES.

“Of all other simpletons, he was the greatest.”—­Nutting’s English Idioms.  “Of all other beings, man has certainly the greatest reason for gratitude.”—­Ibid., Gram., p. 110.  “This lady is the prettiest of all her sisters.”—­Peyton’s Elements of Eng.  Lang., p. 39.  “The relation which, of all others, is by far the most fruitful of tropes, I have not yet mentioned.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 141.  “He studied Greek the most of any nobleman.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 231.  “And indeed that was the qualification of all others most wanted at that time.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, ii, 35.  “Yet we deny that the knowledge of him, as outwardly crucified, is the best of all other knowledge of him.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 144.  “Our ideas of numbers are of all others the most accurate and distinct.”—­Duncan’s Logic, p. 35.  “This indeed is of all others the case when it can be least necessary to name the agent.”—­J.  Q. Adams’s Rhet., i, 231.  “The period, to which you have arrived, is perhaps the most critical and important of any moment of your lives.”—­Ib., i, 394.  “Perry’s royal octavo is esteemed the best of any pronouncing Dictionary yet known.”—­Red Book, p. x.  “This is the tenth persecution, and of all the foregoing, the most bloody.”—­Sammes’s Antiquities, Chap. xiii.  “The English tongue is the most susceptible of sublime imagery, of any language in the world.”—­See Bucke’s Gram., p. 141.  “Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention of any writer whatever.”—­Pope’s Preface to Homer.  “In a version of this particular work, which most of any other seems to require a venerable antique cast.”—­Ib. “Because I think him the best informed of any naturalist who has ever written.”—­ Jefferson’s Notes, p. 82.  “Man is capable of being the most social of any animal.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 145.  “It is of all others that which most moves us.”—­Ib., p. 158.  “Which of all others, is the most necessary article.”—­Ib., p. 166.

   “Quoth he ’this gambol thou advisest,
    Is, of all others, the unwisest.’”—­Hudibras, iii, 316.

UNDER NOTE VI.—­INCLUSIVE TERMS.  “Noah and his family outlived all the people who lived before the flood.”—­Webster’s El.  Spelling-Book, p. 101.  “I think it superior to any work of that nature we have yet had.”—­Dr. Blair’s Rec. in Murray’s Gram., Vol. ii, p. 300.  “We have had no grammarian who has employed so much labour and judgment upon our native language, as the author of these volumes.”—­British Critic, ib., ii, 299.  “No persons feel so much the distresses of others, as they who have experienced distress themselves.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo., p. 227.  “Never was any people so much infatuated as the Jewish nation.”—­Ib., p. 185; Frazee’s Gram., p. 135.