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

“Does not all proceed from the law, which regulates the whole departments of the state?”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 278.  “A messenger relates to Theseus the whole particulars.”—­Kames.  El. of Crit., Vol. ii, p. 313.  “There are no less than twenty dipthhongs [sic—­KTH] in the English language.”—­Dr. Ash’s Gram., p. xii.  “The Redcross Knight runs through the whole steps of the Christian life.”—­Spectator No. 540.  “There were not less than fifty or sixty persons present.”—­Teachers’ Report. “Greater experience, and more cultivated society, abate the warmth of imagination, and chasten the manner of expression.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 152; Murray’s Gram., i, 351.  “By which means knowledge, much more than oratory, is become the principal requisite.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 254.  “No less than seven illustrious cities disputed the right of having given birth to the greatest of poets.”—­Lemp.  Dict., n.  Homer. “Temperance, more than medicines, is the proper means of curing many diseases.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 222.  “I do not suppose, that we Britons want genius, more than our neighbours.”—­Ib., p. 215.  “In which he saith, he has found no less than twelve untruths.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 460.  “The several places of rendezvous were concerted, and the whole operations fixed.”—­HUME:  see Priestley’s Gram., p. 190.  “In these rigid opinions the whole sectaries concurred.”—­Id., ib. “Out of whose modifications have been made most complex modes.”—­LOCKE:  Sanborn’s Gram., p. 148.  “The Chinese vary each of their words on no less than five different tones.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 58.  “These people, though they possess more shining qualities, are not so proud as he is, nor so vain as she.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 211. “’Tis certain, we believe ourselves more, after we have made a thorough Inquiry into the Thing.”—­Brightland’s Gram., p. 244.  “As well as the whole Course and Reasons of the Operation.”—­Ib. “Those rules and principles which are of most practical advantage.”—­Newman’s Rhet., p. 4.  “And there shall be no more curse.”—­Rev., xxii, 3.  “And there shall be no more death.”—­Rev., xxi, 4.  “But in recompense, we have more pleasing pictures of ancient manners.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 436.  “Our language has suffered more injurious changes in America, since the British army landed on our shores, than it had suffered before, in the period of three centuries.”—­Webster’s Essays, Ed. of 1790, p. 96.  “The whole conveniences of life are derived from mutual aid and support in society.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. i, p. 166.

UNDER NOTE XV.—­PARTICIPIAL ADJECTIVES.