Comparisons

Examples

• By two comparisons so disadvantageous the passion must be entirely destroyed. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I shall hereafter have occasion to make several comparisons of this kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The cultivation and garnering of crops from such vast areas can only be appreciated by comparisons. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The most satisfactory comparisons were rising in her mind. Jane Austen. Emma.
• His master's observations upon the constitution and administration of England, as described by the author, with parallel cases and comparisons. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• She was pretty tooat least I thought so THEN; and I had seen so little of other women, that I could make no comparisons, and see no defects. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Yes: I have thought over your life just as you have yourself thought it over; I have made comparisons like those to which you adverted. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I will not sit here, and hear such comparisons made. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And were it not for certain ugly comparisons, hard to be suppressed, the pleasure arising from such a research would be without alloy. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Such comparisons, however, between the profit and expense of new projects are commonly very fallacious; and in nothing more so than in agriculture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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