“THE is sometimes used before adverbs in the comparative or the superlative degree.”—­Lennie, Bullions, and Brace cor. “The definite article THE is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative or the superlative degree.”—­Lowth.  Murray, et al, cor. “Conjunctions usually connect verbs in the same mood and tense.”  Or, more truly:  “Verbs connected by a conjunction, are usually in the same mood and tense.”—­Sanborn cor. “Conjunctions connect verbs in the same style, and usually in the same mood, tense, and form.”  Or better:  “Verbs connected by a conjunction, are usually of the same mood, tense, and form, as well as style.”—­Id. “The ruins of Greece or Rome are but the monuments of her former greatness.”—­P.  E. Day cor. “It is not improbably, that in many of these cases the articles were used originally.”—­Priestley cor. “I cannot doubt that these objects are really what they appear to be.”—­Kames cor. “I question not that my reader will be as much pleased with it.”—­Spect. cor. “It is ten to one that my friend Peter is among them.”—­Id. “I doubt not that such objections as these will be made”—­Locke cor. “I doubt not that it will appear in the perusal of the following sheets.”—­Buchanan cor. “It is not improbable, that in time these different constructions maybe appropriated to different uses.”—­Priestley cor. “But to forget and to remember at pleasure, are equally beyond the power of man.”—­Idler cor. “The nominative case follows the verb, in interrogative or imperative sentences.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? or a vine, figs?”—­Bible cor. “Whose characters are too profligate for the managing of them to be of any consequence.”—­Swift cor. “You, that are a step higher than a philosopher, a divine, yet have too much grace and wit to be a bishop.”—­Pope cor. “The terms rich and poor enter not into their language.”—­Robertson cor. “This pause is but seldom, if ever, sufficiently dwelt upon.”  Or:  “This pause is seldom or never sufficiently dwelt upon.”—­Gardiner cor. “There would be no possibility of any such thing as human life or human happiness.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “The multitude rebuked them, that they should hold their peace.”—­Bible cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­THE CONJUNCTION THAN.

“A metaphor is nothing else than a short comparison.”  Or:  “A metaphor is nothing but a short comparison.”—­Adam and Gould cor. “There being no other dictator here than use.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 364.  “This construction is no otherwise known in English, than by supplying the first or the second person plural.”—­Buchanan