illustration.”—­Dr. Murray’s Hist. of Lang., ii, 62.  “The above explanation.”—­Cobbett’s Gram., 22.  “For very age.”—­Zech., viii, 4.  “From its very greatness.”—­Phil.  Museum, i, 431.  “In his then situation.”—­Johnson’s Life of Goldsmith.  “This was the then state of Popery.”—­Id., Life of Dryden, p. 185.  “The servant becomes the master of his once master.”—­Shillitoe.  “Time when is put in the ablative, time how long is put in the accusative.”—­Adam’s Lat.  Gram., p. 201; Gould’s, 198.  “Nouns signifying the time when or how long, may be put in the objective case without a preposition.”—­Wilbur and Livingston’s Gram., p. 24.  “I hear the far-off curfew sound.”—­Milton.  “Far on the thither side.”—­Book of Thoughts, p. 58.  “My hither way.”—­“Since my here remain in England.”—­Shak. “But short and seldom truce.”—­Fell.  “An exceeding knave.”—­Pope.  “According to my sometime promise.”—­Zenobia, i, 176.  “Thine often infirmities.”—­Bible.  “A far country.”—­Ib. “No wine,”—­“No new thing,”—­“No greater joy.”—­Ib. “Nothing else.”—­Blair. “Tomorrow noon.”—­Scott.  “Calamity enough.”—­Tr.  Sallust.  “For thou only art holy.”—­Rev., xv, 4.

OBS. 4.—­It is not my design to justify any uncouth substitution of adverbs for adjectives; nor do I affirm that all the foregoing examples are indisputably good English, though most of them are so; but merely, that the words, when they are thus used, are adjectives, and not adverbs.  Lindley Murray, and his copyists, strongly condemn some of these expressions, and, by implication, most or all of them; but both he and they, as well as others, have repeatedly employed at least one of the very models they censure.  They are too severe on all those which they specify.  Their objections stand thus; “Such expressions as the following, though not destitute of authority, are very inelegant, and do not suit the idiom of our language; ‘The then ministry,’ for, ‘the ministry of that time;’ ‘The above discourse,’ for, ‘the preceding discourse.’”—­Murray’s Gram., i, p. 198; Crombie’s, 294; Ingersoll’s, 206.  “The following phrases are also exceptionable:  ‘The then ministry;’ ’The above argument.’”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 190.  “Adverbs used as adjectives, as, ‘The above statement;’ ‘The then administration;’ should be avoided.”—­Barnard’s Gram., p. 285. “When and then must not be used for nouns and pronouns; thus, ‘Since when,’ ‘since then,’ ’the then ministry,’ ought to be, ‘Since which time,’ ‘since that time,’ ’the ministry of