the name of the thing divided, is understood in the partitive word; for a part of any thing must needs be of the same species as the whole.  Nor was this great grammarian sufficiently attentive to adjuncts, in determining the parts of speech. Nearly all, quite enough, so little, too much, vastly more, rather less, and an abundance of similar phrases, are familiar to every body; in none of which, can any of these words of quantity, however abstract, be very properly reckoned nouns; because the preceding word is an adverb, and adverbs do not relate to any words that are literally nouns.  All these may also be used partitively; as, “Nearly all of us.”

OBS. 10.—­The following are some of Dr. Johnson’s “nouns;” which, in connexion with the foregoing remarks, I would submit to the judgement of the reader:  “’Then shall we be news-crammed.’—­’All the better; we shall be the more remarkable.’”—­SHAK.:  in Joh.  Dict. “All the fitter, Lentulus; our coming is not for salutation; we have business.”—­BEN JONSON:  ib. “’Tis enough for me to have endeavoured the union of my country.”—­TEMPLE:  ib. “Ye take too much upon you.”—­NUMBERS:  ib. “The fate of love is such, that still it sees too little or too much.”—­DRYDEN:  ib. “He thought not much to clothe his enemies.”—­MILTON:  ib. “There remained not so much as one of them.”—­Ib., Exod., xiv, 28.  “We will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need.”—­Ib., 2 Chronicles.  “The matter of the universe was created before the flood; if any more was created, then there must be as much annihilated to make room for it.”—­BURNET:  ib. “The Lord do so, and much more, to Jonathan.”—­1 SAMUEL:  ib. “They that would have more and more, can never have enough; no, not if a miracle should interpose to gratify their avarice.”—­L’ESTRANGE:  ib. “They gathered some more, some less.”—­EXODUS:  ib. “Thy servant knew nothing of this, less or more.”—­1 SAMUEL:  ib. The first two examples above, Johnson explains thus:  “That is, ’Every thing is the better.’—­Every thing is the fitter.”—­Quarto Dict. The propriety of this solution may well be doubted; because the similar phrases, “So much the better,”—­“None the fitter,” would certainly be perverted, if resolved in the same way:  much and none are here, very clearly, adverbs.

OBS. 11.—­Whatever disposition may be made of the terms cited above, there are instances in which some of the same words can hardly be any thing else than nouns.  Thus all, when it signifies the whole, or every thing, may be reckoned a noun; as, “Our all is at stake, and irretrievably lost, if we fail of success.”—­Addison.  “A torch, snuff and all, goes out in a moment, when dipped in the vapour.”—­Id. “The first blast of wind laid it flat on the ground; nest, eagles, and all.”—­L’Estrange.