his death?”—­Rom., vi, 3.  “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.”—­Gal., iii, 27.  “A syllable is so many letters as are spoken with one motion of the voice.”—­Perley’s Gram., p. 8.  “The compound tenses are such as cannot be formed without an auxiliary verb.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 91.  “Send him such books as will please him.”—­Webster’s Improved Gram., p. 37.  “In referring to such a division of the day as is past, we use the imperfect.”—­ Murray’s Gram., p. 70.  “Participles have the same government as the verbs from which they are derived.”—­Ib., Rule xiv.  “Participles have the same government as the verbs have from which they are derived.”—­ Sanborn’s Gram., p. 94.  In some of these examples, as is in the nominative case, and in others, in the objective; in some, it is of the masculine gender, and in others, it is neuter; in some, it is of the plural number, and in others, it is singular:  but in all, it is of the third person; and in all, its person, number, gender, and case, are as obvious as those of any invariable pronoun can be.

OBS. 20.—­Some writers—­(the most popular are Webster, Bullions, Wells, and Chandler—­) imagine that as, in such sentences as the foregoing, can be made a conjunction, and not a pronoun, if we will allow them to consider the phraseology elliptical.  Of the example for which I am indebted to him, Dr. Webster says, “As must be considered as the nominative to will please, or we must suppose an ellipsis of several words:  as, ’Send him such books as the books which will please him, or as those which will please him.’”—­Improved Gram., p. 37.  This pretended explanation must be rejected as an absurdity.  In either form of it, two nominatives are idly imagined between as and its verb; and, I ask, of what is the first one the subject?  If you say, “Of are understood,” making the phrase, “such books as the books are;” does not as bear the same relation to this new verb are, that is found in the pronoun who, when one says, “Tell him who you are?” If so, as is a pronoun still; so that, thus far, you gain nothing.  And if you will have the whole explanation to be, “Send him such books as the books are books which will please him;” you multiply words, and finally arrive at nothing, but tautology and nonsense.  Wells, not condescending to show his pupils what he would supply after this as, thinks it sufficient to say, the word is “followed by an ellipsis of one or more words required to complete the construction; as, ’He was the father of all such as [] handle the harp and organ.’—­Gen. 4:  21.”—­Wells’s School Gram., 1st Ed., p. 164; 3d Ed., p. 172.