Prayer.  “In the same reasoning we see the cause, why no substantive is susceptible of these comparative degrees.”—­Hermes, p. 201.  “There seems no reason why it should not work prosperously.”—­Society in America, p. 68.  “There are strong reasons why an extension of her territory would be injurious to her.”—­Ib. “An other reason why it deserved to be more studied.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 123.  “The end why God hath ordained faith, is, that his free grace might be glorified.”—­Goodwin.

OBS. 7.—­The direct use of adverbs for pronouns, is often, if not generally, inelegant; and, except the expression may be thereby agreeably shortened, it ought to be considered ungrammatical.  The following examples, and perhaps also some of the foregoing, are susceptible of improvement:  “Youth is the time, when we are young.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 120.  Say rather, “Youth is that part of life which succeeds to childhood.”  “The boy gave a satisfactory reason why he was tardy.”—­Ibid. Say rather, “The boy gave a satisfactory reason for his tardiness.”  “The several sources from whence these pleasures are derived.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 258.  Say rather—­“sources from which” “In cases where it is only said, that a question has been asked.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 117.  Say, “In those cases in which.”  “To the false rhetoric of the age when he lived.”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 415.  Say rather—­“of the age in which he lived.”

OBS. 8.—­When a conjunctive adverb is equivalent to both an antecedent and a relative, the construction seems to be less objectionable, and the brevity of the expression affords an additional reason for preferring it, especially in poetry:  as, “But the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.”—­Matt., viii, 20.  “There might they see whence Po and Ister came.”—­Hoole’s Tasso. “Tell how he formed your shining frame.”—­Ogilvie. “The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth.”—­John, iii, 8.  In this construction, the adverb is sometimes preceded by a preposition; the noun being, in fact, understood:  as,

   “Sinks, like a sea-weed, into whence she rose.”—­Byron.

    “Here Machiavelli’s earth return’d to whence it rose.”—­Id.

OBS. 9.—­The conjunctive adverb so, very often expresses the sense of some word or phrase going before; as, “Wheresoever the speech is corrupted, so is the mind.”—­Seneca’s Morals, p. 267.  That is, the mind is also corrupted.  “I consider grandeur and sublimity, as terms synonymous, or nearly so.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 29.  The following sentence is grossly wrong, because the import of this adverb was not well observed by the writer:  “We have now come to far the most complicated part of speech; and one which is sometimes rendered still more so, than the nature of our language requires.”—­Nutting’s Gram., p. 38. So, in some instances, repeats the import of a preceding noun, and consequently partakes the nature of a pronoun; as,