"The more shame for _ye_; holy men I thought _ye_."--_Shakespeare_.

"I feel the gales that from _ye_ blow."--_Gray_.

"Tyrants dread _ye_, lest your just decree Transfer the power and
set the people free."--_Prior_.

Many of the great writers have played havoc with the adjective in the
indiscriminate use of the degrees of comparison.

"Of two forms of the same word, use the fittest."--_Morell_.

The author here in _trying_ to give good advice sets a bad example.
He should have used the comparative degree, "Fitter."

Adjectives which have a comparative or superlative signification do not
admit the addition of the words _more_, _most_, or the terminations,
_er_, _est_, hence the following examples break this rule:

"Money is the _most universal_ incitement of human misery."--Gibbon's
_Decline and Fall_.

"The _chiefest_ of which was known by the name of Archon among the
Grecians."--Dryden's _Life of Plutarch_.

"The _chiefest_ and largest are removed to certain magazines they call
libraries."--Swift's _Battle of the Books_.

The two _chiefest_ properties of air, its gravity and elastic force,
have been discovered by mechanical experiments.--_Arbuthno_.