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"That may be, but we do not like to live only in comparatives," said Alick. "I confess I should be happier in a cure where I was more of one mind with my rector than I am here, and not decried or ridiculed on account of every scheme for good that I might propose. Parish-work here is shamefully neglected, but Mr. Birkett will not let me do anything to mend it." "Ah!" said Mr.
This use of two superlatives mutually related to each other, the former with quisque, is frequent in Latin and resembles the English use of two comparatives: the better, the more trustworthy. Cf. Z. 710, b.; also note, 3: promptissmus quisque. Exsequi==punire. A sense peculiar to the later Latin. Cic. and Caes. use persequi.
The child blushed. "Oh, it is not on that account," he said. "I do not dislike grammar because it is hard, but merely because it is tedious." "And I will wager that on that account you have forgotten what we went over in our last grammar hour. We were speaking of the three comparatives. But you probably do not remember them." "You are mistaken," replied the dauphin, smiling. "In proof, hear me.
Hapgood said: "Did I say to you last time, after that Brighton business, that the man had crashed, that the roof had fallen in on him? Did I say that? May I never again use superlatives till I've turned over the page to make sure they weren't comparatives.
Amid these contentions of celestial minds it will be safest to content ourselves with one or two plain observations in the humble positive degree, without hurrying into high and final comparatives and superlatives. One admission is generally made at the outset.
Here has been such a stormy encounter Betwixt my cousin Captain, and this soldier, About I know not what! nothing, indeed; Competitions, degrees, and comparatives Of soldiership! A Faire Qurrell. The attentive audience gave the fair transcriber of the foregoing legend the thanks which politeness required.
To which one of them, Heracleon the Megarean, replied: "Tis for such as are puzzled about inquiring whether the future tense of the verb is spelt with a double A, or that hunt after the derivation of the comparatives and , and the superlatives and , to knit their brows whilst discoursing of their science: but as to philosophical discourses, they always divert and cheer up those that entertain them, and never deject them or make them sad."
Here has been such a stormy encounter Betwixt my cousin Captain, and this soldier, About I know not what! nothing, indeed; Competitions, degrees, and comparatives Of soldiership! A Faire Qurrell. The attentive audience gave the fair transcriber of the foregoing legend the thanks which politeness required.
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