And as intelligence, when its action is too narrowly concentrated, whether upon pin-making or money-making, tends to degenerate into mere instinct,so instinct, when it begins to compare, and to except, and to vary its action according to circumstances, shows itself in the act of passing into intelligence.

Some wanted to pass over the gap between the Creator and the created along a bridge of contemplation; and so, driven by the fire of sublime passion, precipitate themselves towards the object of their love, in a kind of rapture, which poets compare with intoxication.

] No other State possesses institutions to compare with them.

When astronomers compare observations made by different persons, they cannot neglect the constitutional peculiarities of the individuals, and there enters into these computations a quantity called 'personal equation.'

The subject of children was thus started, and when Mathieu, laughing, observed that they, the Moranges, had but one child, the cashier protested that it was unfair to compare him with M. Beauchene, who was such a wealthy man.

It would be interesting and instructive to compare the three; but we have not time.

These are bould tales, of which the Greeks have store; But if he could from Hell once more returne And would compare his hand and voice with mine, I, though himselfe were iudge, he then should see How much the Latine staines the Thracian lyar.

My vertues flattered have and guifts of mine, My government preferr'd to ancient times, And challenge[d] Numa to compare with me, Have they so horrible an end sought out?

I maruell that a rusticke shepheard dare With woodmen then audaciously compare.

When we compare education now with what it was even forty years ago, much more with the stupid brutality of the monastic system, we may hail for children, as well as for grown people, the advent of the reign of common sense.

When we compare the chalk with the strata which lie upon it, we can only call them a complete new creation.

Compare them with the average flints of the pit, and you see that while the average flints are fresh from the chalk, these have plainly been rolled and rounded for years.

But it is to raise envy to the Living, to compare them with the Dead.

Compare DRYDEN's definition of Humour, with that of Lord MACAULAY, in his review of Diary and Letters of Madame D'ARBLAY (Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1843).

Compare the passage in Preston's "Cambyses," iv.

[Compare Nares, 1859, in v.] i.e., Other requisites towards the fitting out of a character.

[Compare Dyce's second edition of Shakespeare, iii. 412.] i.e., St Leger's round.

[But compare Middleton's "Blurt, Master Constable," 1602 ("Works," by Dyce, i. 280).

"This, in the course which matters are now taking, is what one can foresee for the future, and I compare this result with what we could promise ourselves from a line of conduct opposed to the wishes which the nation displays.

What though her face confest a darker shade? Let not a paler European dare With glowing Yarico's her beauty to compare.

I answered, that although I was much grieved by the neglect of the Prime Minister to answer the letters I had addressed to him, yet as they had on their cards stated that they had 'full powers,' I had consented to have this interview in order that we might compare our powers, and see whether we could treat together.

Compare some verses of his translation of the Bible with the 1611 version.

Compare Chaucer's verse with Langland's in point of subject matter.

Compare the death (or passing) of Arthur in Malory with Tennyson's The Passing of Arthur.

Compare these with lines from any poet whose knowledge of nature seems to you to be acquired from books.