A comparison of gross expenditures, however, is of no significance unless the sums contrasted represent payments for the same purposes.
For a fair comparison of the economy of the Johnson government and the reconstruction government, it is necessary to compare the amounts which they spent respectively for the same objects.
This fact is shown by a comparison of the expenditures of the state under Bullock's administration and under that of his predecessor.
But the most solid praise of Basil is drawn from the comparison of a ruined and a flourishing monarchy, that which he wrested from the dissolute Michael, and that which he bequeathed to the Mecedonian dynasty.
In the comparison of the tables of Solon with those of the Decemvirs, some casual resemblance may be found; some rules which nature and reason have revealed to every society; some proofs of a common descent from Egypt or Phnicia.
The poverty of ideas and language tempted them to ransack art and nature for every possible comparison, and each comparison mislead their fancy in the explanation of an incomparable mystery.
They compared the fame and fortune of Belisarius with the weakness of their ill-fated king; and the comparison suggested an extraordinary project, to which Vitiges, with apparent resignation, was compelled to acquiesce.
The first thorough comparison of Chrestien and Wolfram is to be found in Otto Kuepp's Unmittelbaren Quellen des Parzival, (Zs.
The comparison of the Conte du Graal with Celtic legends and folk-tales has shown that the former is in the main a North French retelling of tales current then, as now, among the Celtic peoples of Britain, and probably of Brittany.
I must refer to my article for a full discussion of the various Celtic forms of this widely-spread tale, and for a tabular comparison with the remaining Indo-European forms analysed by J.
This incident is only found in the living Fionn-sage, being absent from all the older versions, and yet, as the comparison with the allied Perceval sage shows, it is an original and essential feature.
The consideration of the second point will necessitate comparison of the various Quest forms among themselves, and the examination of numerous Celtic stories which present analogies with them.
More than this, any such comparison as that which attempts to link the Egyptians with Indians or Hebrews or Ethiopians is, after all, only a narrow view of the subject extending over a comparatively limited period of time.
Numerous examples of such errors may be seen in the comparison of Manetho’s list with the monuments.
On the other hand, the comparison of this inscription with the following ones appears to me to prove that the date, year VI, should probably be placed to the count of the priest-king.
In general, it can hardly be said that the comparison is flattering to the classical mind.
Like a true reformer the prophetic narrator has raised upon the Babylonian basis a new system whose rational and moral side need not fear comparison with any other religious doctrine of humanity.
A peculiar interest, then, attaches to the comparison of these records with the traditions of Babylonian and Assyrian heroes which the classical writers have preserved.
The translation is based on those mentioned in the introduction together with a comparison of the Babylonian text as given in transcription by V.
The story of this decipherment must be outlined here for comparison with the account of the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphics, which has already been presented.
And you would have me leave you, as they say in my country beyond the great lakes, to go cheerfully into the jaws of the wolf; and yet my comparison is humiliating for the wolf, for the Indians are a thousand times more ferocious!
The better half of their lives they lived upon the glory they had acquired in their youth; great men after, 'tis true, in comparison of others; but by no means in comparison of themselves.
This I presume to be Reynolds's meaning, and to be all that he intends us to gather from his comparison of the Great Style with the writings of Homer.
For among persons of native good sense, and courage enough to speak their minds, we shall often find a considerable degree of doubt as to the use of art, in consequence of their habitual comparison of it with reality.
The comparison shall be made elaborately, between picture and picture, in the section on Vegetation.
Leslie's Life of him (a dell in Helmingham Park, Suffolk), for the sake of the same comparison in shade that we have above in contour.
I knew not whether this Biblical comparison seemed irreverent; but she dryly replied that she knew enough not to have any secrets with me.
As for the charm in them, anycomparison is useless.
We believe the sale of the first volume to have been almost unprecedentedly rapid, (a fourth edition being called for within two years) in comparison with the usual slow sale of scientific works.
In the course of his answer, which contained many intolerant and acrimonious statements, he drew a comparison between the married and the unmarried state.
We prefer the wilderness of this desolation before all that is fair and attractive, admitting no comparison between the luxuriance of the most exuberant soil and the bitterness of these sands.
And here, nocomparison in favour of the latter could be found between English and Norman civilisation.
That comes long after, when the worm is at its work, and comparison between the dead and the living often rights the one to wrong the other.
But Algar, below the middle height, though well set, was slight in comparison with Harold.
Were I to seek a comparison for my friend's eyes, I might find an imperfect one in this masterpiece of the jeweler's art.
In comparison with these formidable elements, which never dared to rebel against the law imposed upon them by Supreme Power, how weak and arrogant Humanity seemed to be!
Blocks of rock rose up on all sides, like a real forest, and by their shape and colour, they could bear comparison with gigantic tree-trunks, partly calcined and partly incandescent.
See now, I lavish on my audience fine tales,' Nazir was bold enough to add, 'that will bear comparison with those sent down by Allah to His Prophet.
He deserved that this lowly situation, bearing no comparison with his exploits, should have been changed so as to give him new lustre in the eyes of the people.
By their natural gifts of eloquence and poetry, they can bear comparison with the most brilliant orators or magnificent poets of the universe.
The progress of banking on the continent of Europe has been slow in comparison with that of the United Kingdom, and the use of cheques is not so general, consequently the need for clearing-houses is not so great.
If he had rivals he never ceased to treat them with the consideration and confidence of friends, and he cared but little for the ordinary prizes of ambition in comparison with the advancement of the cause of peace and progress.
This is not very helpful, however, because there is no standard of comparison between the Virginia dollar of that period and the United States dollar of to-day.
While it is an encyclopaedia of law and business containing items such as a comparison of the values of money of all lands, it is very readable and entertaining.
This fact is another proof of the small place which this grave part of the economic problem occupied in the minds of the foes of the Constitution, in comparison with that of "liberty" as endangered by a strong National Government.
He has minutely observed and described the scattered fragments of the old organization of society; his analysis and comparison of these fragments shows the thickness and extent of the stratum almost gone, to which they belonged.
But all that the accused, the imprisoned and fugitives can take with them, amounts to but little in comparison with what they leave at home, that is to say, under sequestration.
The comparison between his present situation and the former position which he had held only a few days back, did not tend to cheer his spirits.
Schweinsberg being a little thick-set fellow, and a head shorter than me, it was the comparison which made me laugh so irresistibly.
It promulgates latter-day Scripture as well as the Holy Writ of centuries remote; and strict comparison demonstrates consistency and harmony in spirit and principle.
A century and a half earlier, Isaiah had cried wo unto Ariel, the City of David; and had made distinction between Judah who then occupied Ariel or Jerusalem, and another people with whom comparison is made.
Water baptism has also been very impressively compared to burial and resurrection; and the comparison is meaningless except the baptism be by immersion followed by a rising from the watery grave.
Belief is by comparison passive, a mere agreement or tacit acceptance only; faith is active and positive, and is accompanied by works.
True, it entailed obedience and submission; but even if such could be likened unto a yoke, what was its burden in comparison with the incubus under which they groaned?
Indeed," says Mahaffy, "it is no unusual practice to exhibit the defects of both Aeschylus and Euripides by comparison with their more successful rival.
And I am not making such a foolish comparison as between modern or recent conditions in the two races.
His intellectual development was magnificent; comparison and causality immense, with large ideality and constructiveness, individuality, an enormous concentrativeness and caution.
If the wonderful improvements of the present and the past age could be placed in comparison with the attempts, the struggles, to accomplish what has now been achieved, the list of failures would far outnumber that of successes.
In thus speaking of the interest which attends an extemporaneous delivery, it is not necessary to pursue the subject into a general comparison of the advantages of this mode with those of reading and of reciting from memory.
She could not avoid thecomparison between the natural beauties of her tropic forests and the artificial embellishments of more northern Greece.
Was not their very luxury rendered intolerable to them by comparison with the lot of their brothers and sisters in the harness, and the knowledge that their own weight added to their toil?
Leete asked us about our visit to the store, and in the course of the desultory comparison of the ways of the nineteenth century and the twentieth, which followed, something raised the question of inheritance.
It was a coincidence trifling in comparison with the general strangeness of the situation, but still striking, that her name should be Edith.
These items are, however, scarcely worth mentioning in comparison with other prodigious wastes, now saved, which resulted inevitably from leaving the industries of the nation to private enterprise.
After my friends had been washing and dressing, I saw only what great lords they looked like incomparison to me.
Comparison of Demosthenes' own conduct with that of the other ambassadors (Sec.
Come now and contemplate the proceedings of Aeschines and those of Philocrates, by the side of my own; for the comparison will bring out their character more vividly.
Comparison of poets to bees, by Pindar, Horace, Lucretius.
Both of these, or at least the latter, were professedly founded upon the prior versions, but certainly not without a close comparison with the original text.
He esteemed the moderns very slightly incomparison with antiquity, though praising Guicciardini and Philip de Comines.
If we judge of it by comparison with the extent of the science itself and the degree of perfection it has attained in the hands of modern writers, we shall find but an imperfect and faulty attempt.
But I do not perceive, on a comparison of the two treatises, much pretence for this insinuation.
But Budæus understood Greek better; he had learned it with prodigious labour, and probably about the same time with Erasmus, so that the comparison between them was not unnatural.
Meiners (in his Comparison of the Middle Ages) is rather superficial as to their philosophy, but presents a lively picture of the schoolmen in relation to literature and manners.
Malone, on a laborious comparison of them with the second and third parts of Henry VI.
But in Portugal there had arisen a poet, in comparison of whose glory that of Ercilla is as nothing.
The comparison of Plato and Aristotle by George of Trebizond was published at Venice in 1523, as Heeren says, on the authority of Fabricius.
But, as he wanted a biographer, he has become obscure in comparison with Jewell, who probably was not at all his superior.
They were little more conversant with philological and historical literature than their predecessors, and had less diligence in that comparison of texts, by which an acute understanding might compensate the want of subsidiary learning.
In point of mere style there can be no comparisonbetween the letters of a Sadolet or Manutius on the one hand, and those of a Scaliger, Lipsius, or Casaubon on the other.
There were two, Bembo and Sadolet, who had by common confession reached a consummate elegance of style, in comparison of which the best productions of the last age seemed very imperfect.
