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260 ADVERBIAL CLAUSES. [Par. 455,456.
(Par. 398), but also as a Noun and Relative Adverb
together:
(1) " He lives about ten miles from here." "From
where?"
(2) "He lives ten miles from where I am living," i.e.
"from the place in which or where I am living."
ADVERBIAL CLAUSES.
455 " That." Instead of " when " used Relatively,
sometimes the Relative Pronoun " that" is used
(Par. 444): —
(1) " He never (at no time) sees me that (at which
time) he does not mock me."
Compare, in Early English(2) " Scarcely was this speech finished that (i.e.
when) they saw Hengist approach." 1
456 "But" being used after negatives to intensify an
affirmative, e.g. " This is nothing but the truth," came
to be irregularly used, in Shakspeare's time, after
Negative Comparatives, e.g. "This is no more but
the truth."
This seems to be a (II.) confusion between " nothing but" and " no more than."
Hence (in colloquial English), after "not," "no
sooner," "scarcely," and other words implying a
I Layamon, ii. 262.