] = _from all quarters_.

s. 385. The -ce ( = es) in _hen-ce_, _when-ce_, _then-ce_, has yet to be
satisfactorily explained. The Old English is _whenn-es_, _thenn-es_. As
far, therefore, as the spelling is concerned, they are in the same
predicament with the word _once_, which is properly _on-es_, the genitive
of _one_. This origin is probable, but not certain.

s. 386. _Yonder_.--In the Moeso-Gothic we have the following forms:
_j['a]inar_, _j['a]ina_, _j['a]nthr[^o]_ = _illic_, _illuc_, _illinc_. They
do not, however, quite explain the form _yon-d-er_. It is not clear whether
the d = the -d in _j[^a]ind_, or the th in _jainthro_.

s. 387. _Anon_, is used by Shakspeare, in the sense of _presently_.--The
probable history of this word is as follows: the first syllable contains a
root akin to the root _yon_, signifying _distance in place_. The second is
a shortened form of the Old High German and Middle High German, -nt, a
termination expressive, 1, of removal in _space_; 2, of removal in _time_;
Old High German, _enont_, _ennont_; Middle High German, _enentlig_,
_jenunt_ = _beyond_.

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CHAPTER XXXV.

ON WHEN, THEN, AND THAN.

s. 388. The Anglo-Saxon adverbs are _whenne_ and _thenne_ = _when_, _then_.

The masculine accusative cases of the relative and demonstrative pronoun
are _hwaene_ (_hwone_) and _thaene_ (_thone_).

Notwithstanding the difference, the first form is a variety of the second;
so that the adverbs _when_ and _then_ are really pronominal in origin.

s. 389. As to the word _than_, the conjunction of comparison, it is another
form of _then_; the notions of _order_, _sequence_, and _comparison_ being
allied.

_This is good_; _then_ (or _next in order_) _that is good_, is an
expression sufficiently similar to _this is better than that_ to have given
rise to it; and in Scotch and certain provincial dialects we actually find
_than_ instead of _then_.

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CHAPTER XXXVI.

PREPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS.

s. 390. _Prepositions._--Prepositions are wholly unsusceptible of
inflection.

s. 391. _Conjunctions._--Conjunctions, like prepositions, are wholly
unsusceptible of inflection.

s. 392. _Yes_, _no_.--Although _not_ may be considered to be an adverb,
_nor_ a conjunction, and _none_ a noun, these two words, the direct
categorical affirmative, and the direct categorical negative, are referable
to none of the curren