The Grammar of English Grammars, page 761 by Gould Brown
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quired even after those terms which usually demand that or _as_: thus, "We are vexed at the unlucky chance, and go away dissatisfied. Such impressions, which ought not to be cherished, are a sufficient reason for excluding stories of that kind from the theatre."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 279. Here which is proper to the sense intended; but such requires as, when the latter term limits the meaning of the former. In sentences like the following, who or which may be used in lieu of _that_; whether with any advantage or not, the reader may judge: "You seize the critical moment that is favorable to emotion."--_Bair's Rhet._, p. 321. "An historian that would instruct us, must know when to be concise."--_Ib._, p. 359. "Seneca has been censured for the affectation that appears in his style."--_Ib._, p. 367. "Such as the prodigies that attended the death of Julius Cæsar."--_Ib._, p. 401. "By unfolding those principles that ought to govern the taste of every individual."--_Kames's Dedication to El. of Crit._ "But I am sure he has that that is better than an estate."--_Spect._, No. 475. "There are two properties, that characterize and essentially distinguish relative pronouns."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 74. By these examples, it may be seen, that Dr. Blair often forgot or disregarded his own doctrine respecting the use of this relative; though he was oftener led, by the error of that doctrine, to substitute which for that improperly.
OBS. 36.--Whether was formerly used as an interrogative pronoun, in which sense it always referred to one of two things; as, "Ye fools and blind! for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?"--_Matt._, xxiii, 17. This usage is now obsolete; and, in stead of it, we say, "Which is greater?" But as a disjunctive conjunction, corresponding to or, the word w