OBS. 8.—­Of the words given in the foregoing list as pronominal adjectives, about one third are sometimes used adverbially.  They are the following:  All, when it means totally; any, for in any degree; else, meaning otherwise; enough, signifying sufficiently; first, for in the first place; last, for in the last place; little, for in a small degree; less, for in a smaller degree; least, for in the smallest degree; much, for in a great degree; more, for in a greater degree; most, for in the greatest degree; no, or none, for in no degree; only, for singly, merely, barely; what, for in what degree, or in how great a degree.[173] To these may perhaps be added the word other, when used as an alternative to somehow; as, “Somehow or other he will be favoured.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 89.  Here other seems to be put for otherwise; and yet the latter word would not be agreeable in such a sentence. “Somewhere or other,” is a kindred phrase equally common, and equally good; or, rather, equally irregular and puzzling.  Would it not be better, always to avoid both, by saying, in their stead, “In some way or other,”—­“In someplace or other?” In the following examples, however, other seems to be used for otherwise, without such a connection:  “How is THAT used, other than as a Conjunction?”—­Ainsworth’s Gram., p. 88.

   “Will it not be receiv’d that they have done ’t? 
    —­Who dares receive it other?”—­SHAK.:  Joh.  Dict., w.  Other.

OBS. 9.—­All and enough, little and much, more and less, sometimes suggest the idea of quantity so abstractly, that we can hardly consider them as adjuncts to any other words; for which reason, they are, in this absolute sense, put down in our dictionaries as nouns.  If nouns, however, they are never inflected by cases or numbers; nor do they in general admit the usual adjuncts or definitives of nouns.[174] Thus, we can neither say, the all, for the whole, nor an enough, for a sufficiency.  And though a little, the more, and the less, are common phrases, the article does not here prove the following word to be a noun; because the expression may either be elliptical, or have the construction of an adverb:  as, “Though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.”—­2 Cor., xii, 15.  Dr. Johnson seems to suppose that the partitive use of these words makes them nouns; as, “They have much of the poetry of Mecaenas, but little of his liberality.”—­DRYDEN:  in Joh.  Dict. Upon this principle, however, adjectives innumerable would be made nouns; for we can just as well say, “Some of the poetry,”—­“Any of the poetry,”—­“The best of Poetry,” &c.  In all such expressions,