cor. “But it was the most dreadful sight that ever I saw.”—­Bunyan cor. “Four of the oldest, soberest, and discreetest of the brethren, chosen for the occasion, shall regulate it.”—­Locke cor. “Nor can there be any clear understanding of any Roman author, especially of more ancient time, without this skill.”—­W.  Walker cor. “Far the most learned of the Greeks.”—­Id. “The more learned thou art, the humbler be thou.”—­Id. “He is none of the best, or most honest.”—­Id. “The most proper methods of communicating it to others.”—­Burn cor. “What heaven’s great King hath mightiest to send against us.”—­Milton cor. “Benedict is not the most unhopeful husband that I know.”—­Shakspeare cor. “That he should immediately do all the meanest and most trifling things himself.”—­Ray cor. “I shall be named among the most renowned of women.”—­Milton cor. “Those have the most inventive heads for all purposes.”—­Ascham cor. “The more wretched are the contemners of all helps.”—­B.  Johnson cor. “I will now deliver a few of the most proper and most natural considerations that belong to this piece.”—­Wotton cor. “The most mortal poisons practised by the West Indians, have some mixture of the blood, fat, or flesh of man.”—­Bacon cor. “He so won upon him, that he rendered him one of the most faithful and most affectionate allies the Medes ever had.”—­Rollin cor. “’You see before you,’ says he to him, ’the most devoted servant, and the most faithful ally, you ever had.’”—­Id. “I chose the most flourishing tree in all the park.”—­Cowley cor. “Which he placed, I think, some centuries earlier than did Julius Africanus afterwards.”—­Bolingbroke cor. “The Tiber, the most noted river of Italy.”—­Littleton cor.

   “To farthest shores th’ ambrosial spirit flies.”—­Pope.

    ——­“That what she wills to do or say,
    Seems wisest, worthiest, discreetest, best.”—­Milton cor.

LESSON II.—­MIXED EXAMPLES.

“During the first three or four years of its existence.”—­Taylor cor. “To the first of these divisions, my last ten lectures have been devoted.”—­Adams cor. “There are, in the twenty-four states, not fewer than sixty thousand common schools.”—­J.  O. Taylor cor. “I know of nothing which gives teachers more trouble, than this want of firmness.”—­Id. “I know of nothing else that throws such darkness over the line which separates right from wrong.”—­Id. “None need this purity and this simplicity of language and thought, more than does the instructor of a common school.”—­Id.