Whether any particular adjective admits of comparison or not, is a matter of reasoning from the sense of the term; by which method it shall be compared, is in some degree a matter of taste; though custom has decided that long words shall not be inflected, and for the shorter, there is generally an obvious bias in favour of one form rather than the other.

And Johnny’s enigmatic feat admits of this solution, That bushranging in New South Wales is a favoured institution.

The traces of extinct grandeur admit of a better passion than envy: and contemplations on the great and good, whom we fancy in succession to have been its inhabitants, weave for us illusions, incompatible with the bustle of modern occupancy, and vanities of foolish present aristocracy.

We cannot, then, for an instant admit such a hypothesis.

I can not think this, and the impossibility of supposing it would be still more glaring if similar calculations were carried out in regard to the numerous objects of material, moral, and political usefulness of which the idea of internal improvement admits.

Scientific men have been forced by the actual and public exercise of the power under the most crucial testsfor instance, to produce insensibility in surgical operationsto admit that the will of one man can control the brain, the senses, the physical frame of another without material contact, perhaps at a distance.

"That it is our duty to be pious admits not of any doubt.

The latter gratefully lent herself to the kind intentions of her new friend, and endeavored to be pleased with all she beheld, though it was such pleasure as the sad and mourning admit with a jealous reservation of their own secret causes of woe.

Scientific men have been forced by the actual and public exercise of the power under the most crucial testsfor instance, to produce insensibility in surgical operationsto admit that the will of one man can control the brain, the senses, the physical frame of another without material contact, perhaps at a distance.

This respect for traditional usage admits of almost endless illustration.

V. give entrance to, give admittance to, give the entree; introduce, intromit; usher, admit, receive, import, bring in, open the door to, throw in, ingest, absorb, imbibe, inhale, breathe in; let in, take in, suck in, draw in; readmit, resorb, reabsorb; snuff up, swallow, ingurgitate^; engulf, engorge; gulp; eat, drink &c (food) 298.

The Itinerist's account is too particularfor he gives the result of the votingto admit of any possibility of a mistake, and he describes how several of the members came afterwards to his lodgings, and, so he writes, 'embraced us with all the outward marks of love and kindness, and seemed mightily pleased at what was done, and told us we should now be no more English and Scotch, but Brittons.'

For myselfand setting aside this personal matter, which is at worst only the loss of a worthless girlI admit I fear that this slavery wolf is going to mean troublebig troubleboth for the South and the North, before long.