In all Virginia's history there had been no such invasion, for the wars of Opechancanough and Berkeley and the fight of Bacon against the Susquehannocks were mere bickers compared with this deliberate downpour from the hills.

Smollett they have neither forgotten nor forgiven for his delineation of Rory and his companion, upon their first introduction to our metropolis.peak of Smollett as a great genius, and they will retort upon you Hume's History compared with his Continuation of it.

Compared with the greatest poets, he may be said to be the poet of unpoetical natures, possessed of quiet and contemplative tastes.

A part of the black regiments were bought in Africa as recruits, and were not transported in slave-ships, and, never under West India masters: but it was only a small part compared with the whole number in the three cases.

What were the faults of Cicero, compared with those of Theodosius or Constantine, to say nothing of his contemporaries, like Caesar, before whom so much incense has been burned?

The only actions of the Napoleonic period that can be compared with it are those of Camperdown, the Nile, and Copenhagen.

The contrast which the New Testament presents when compared with the Old, according to the ecclesiastical view of the matter, is just that existing between my ethical system and the moral philosophy of Europe.

Maffei: his "Polyphonte" compared with that of Voltaire.

No, they are blessings compared with the miseries of thousands.

Expense of wealth, although excessive, is nothing compared with the expense of morality and of all intellectual exercise.

Under these circumstances a loan may be required before the close of your present session; but this, although deeply to be regretted, would prove to be only a slight misfortune when compared with the suffering and distress prevailing among the people.

As to the rest, and compared with true and great poets, our Scottish Minstrel is but "a metre ballad-monger."

It is said that a white elephant will not allow any one to ride upon him who is not of royal descent, and then the king of beasts steps on with full consciousness of the honour of his kingly burthen; but what could his pride be, compared with that of Nero's, as the faithful creature stepped on and on with his infant rider?

Compared with Rome and the Duke of Alva, those hermitages of the hills among their chestnut groves seemed to him haunts of ancient peace.

But all these internal sources of slavery are as nothing compared with the supply created by war and the slave-trade.

Compared with the records of crime in Scotland, or the eastern states, the results are ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING!

The historical conditions of society may be compared with those of language.

The result is more disastrous than one unfamiliar with Australian relationships would imagine; for these relationships are so complicated that to unravel them takes, in the words of Howitt (59), "a patience compared with which that of Job is furious irritability.

Ovid's Ars Amandi is a model of purity compared with the Hindoo "Art of Love," the K[=a]mas[=u]tram (or Kama Soutra) of V[=a]tsy[=a]yana, which is nothing less than a handbook for libertines, of which it would be impossible even to print the table of contents.

All these larger foes paled into insignificance compared with the mosquitos.

Now the growth and development of society not merely tend to make each more and more dependent upon all, and to lessen the influence of individuals, even over their own conditions, as compared with the influence of society; but the effect of association or integration is to give rise to a collective power which is distinguishable from the sum of individual powers.

Especially is this true with regard to the girl as compared with the boy.

I do not claim that as poetry it can be compared with the work of Tasso, Fletcher, or Jonson, or that it even rivals that of Guarini or Daniel, though had Randolph lived he might easily have surpassed the latter.

But a new feature is added to the complication of their structure, as compared with Actiniae, in the transverse beams which connect their vertical partitions, though they do not stretch across the animal so as to form perfect floors, as in some of the higher Polyps.

how entirely beyond the reach of symbols!Think of human passions as compared with all phrases!