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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