she wills to say or do,
Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. Par. Lost.

So trifling by Ray, who is indeed of no great authority.

It is not so decorous, in respect of God, that he should immediately do
all the meanest and triflingest things himself, without making use of
any inferior or subordinate minister. Ray on the Creation.

Famous, by Milton.

I shall be nam'd among the famousest
Of women, sung at solemn festivals. Milton's Agonistes.

Inventive, by Ascham.

Those have the inventivest heads for all purposes, and roundest tongues
in all matters. Ascham's Schoolmaster.

Mortal, by Bacon.

The mortalest poisons practised by the West Indians, have some mixture
of the blood, fat, or flesh of man. Bacon.

Natural, by Wotton.

I will now deliver a few of the properest and naturalest considerations
that belong to this piece. Wotton's Architecture.

Wretched, by Jonson.

The wretcheder are the contemners of all helps; such as presuming on
their own naturals, deride diligence, and mock at terms when they
understand not things. Ben Jonson.

Powerful, by Milton.

We have sustain'd one day in doubtful fight,
What heav'n's great king hath pow'rfullest to send
Against us from about his throne. Par. Lost.

The termination in ish may be accounted in some sort a degree of
comparison, by which the signification is diminished below the
positive, as black, blackish, or tending to blackness; salt, saltish,
or having a little taste of salt; they therefore admit no comparison.
This termination is seldom added but to words expressing sensible
qualities, nor often to words of above one syllable, and is scarcely
used in the solemn or sublime style.

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Of PRONOUNS.

Pronouns, in the English language, are, I, thou, he, with their plurals,
we, ye, they; it, who, which, what, whether, whosoever, whatsoever, my,
mine, our, ours, thy, thine, your, yours, his, her, hers, theirs, this,
that, other, another, the same, some.

The pronouns personal are irregularly inflected.

Singular. Plural.

Nom. I, We.

Accus. and Me, Us.
other oblique
cases.

Nom. Thou, Ye.

Oblique. Thee, You.

You is commonly used in modern writers for ye, particularly in the language
of ceremony, where