“No tongue is so full of connective particles as the Greek.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 85.  “Never sovereign was so much beloved by the people.”—­Murray’s Exercises, R. xv, p. 68.  “No sovereign was ever so much beloved by the people.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 202.  “Nothing ever affected her so much as this misconduct of her child.”—­Ib., p. 203; Merchant’s, 195.  “Of all the figures of speech, none comes so near to painting as metaphor.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 142; Jamieson’s, 149.  “I know none so happy in his metaphors as Mr. Addison.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 150.  “Of all the English authors, none is so happy in his metaphors as Addison.”—­Jamieson’s, Rhet., p. 157.  “Perhaps no writer in the world was ever so frugal of his words as Aristotle.”—­Blair, p. 177; Jamieson, 251.  “Never was any writer so happy in that concise spirited style as Mr. Pope.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 403.  “In the harmonious structure and disposition of periods, no writer whatever, ancient or modern, equals Cicero.”—­Blair, 121; Jamieson, 123.  “Nothing delights me so much as the works of nature.”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. i, p. 150.  “No person was ever so perplexed as he has been to-day.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 216.  “In no case are writers so apt to err as in the position of the word only.”—­Maunder’s Gram., p. 15.  “For nothing is so tiresome as perpetual uniformity.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 102.

   “No writing lifts exalted man so high,
    As sacred and soul-moving poesy.”—­Sheffield.

UNDER NOTE VII.—­EXTRA COMPARISONS.

“How much more are ye better than the fowls!”—­Luke, xii, 24.  “Do not thou hasten above the Most Highest.”—­2 Esdras, iv, 34.  “This word peer is most principally used for the nobility of the realm.”—­Cowell.  “Because the same is not only most universally received,” &c.—­Barclay’s Works, i, 447.  “This is, I say, not the best and most principal evidence.”—­Ib., iii, 41.  “Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the Most Highest.”—­The Psalter, Ps. 1, 14.  “The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most Highest.”—­Ib., Ps. xlvi, 4.  “As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality.”—­Goldsmith’s Essays, p. 152.  “More universal terms are put for such as are more restricted.”—­Brown’s Metaphors, p. 11.  “This was the most unkindest cut of all.”—­Dodd’s Beauties of Shak., p. 251; Singer’s Shak., ii, 264.  “To take the basest and most poorest shape.”—­Dodd’s Shak., p. 261.  “I’ll forbear:  and am fallen out with my more headier will.”—­Ib., p. 262.  “The power of the Most Highest guard thee from sin.”—­Percival, on Apostolic Succession, p. 90.  “Which title had been more truer, if the dictionary had been in Latin and Welch.”—­VERSTEGAN:  Harrison’s E. Lang., p. 254.  “The waters are more sooner and harder frozen, than more further upward, within the inlands.”—­Id., ib. “At every descent, the worst may become more worse.”—­H.  MANN:  Louisville Examiner, 8vo, Vol. i, p. 149.