nts.--BURKE.
[Sidenote: _The regular construction_.]
[Sidenote: _Caution_.]
The usual way is to use the relative _as_ after _same_ if no verb
follows _as;_ but, if _same_ is followed by a complete clause, _as_ is
not used, but we find the relative _who, which,_ or _that_. Remember
this applies only to _as_ when used as a relative.
Examples of the use of _as_ in a contracted clause:--
Looking to the same end _as_ Turner, and working in the same
spirit, he, with Turner, was a discoverer, etc.--R.W. CHURCH.
They believe the same of all the works of art, _as_ of knives,
boats, looking-glasses.--ADDISON.
Examples of relatives following _same_ in full clauses:--
[Sidenote: Who.]
This is the very same rogue _who_ sold us the spectacles.
--GOLDSMITH.
The same person _who_ had clapped his thrilling hands at the
first representation of the Tempest.--MACAULAY.
[Sidenote: That.]
I rubbed on some of the same ointment _that_ was given me at my
first arrival.--SWIFT.
[Sidenote: Which.]
For the same sound is in my ears
_Which_ in those days I heard.--WORDSWORTH.
With the same minuteness _which_ her predecessor had exhibited,
she passed the lamp over her face and person.--SCOTT.
V. MISUSE OF RELATIVE PRONOUNS.
[Sidenote: _Anacoluthic use of_ which.]
418. There is now and then found in the pages of literature a
construction which imitates the Latin, but which is usually carefully
avoided. It is a use of the relative _which_ so as to make an
anacoluthon, or lack of proper connection between the clauses; for
example,--
_Which_, if I had resolved to go on with, I might as well have
staid at home.--DEFOE
_Which_ if he attempted to do, Mr. Billings vowed that he would
follow him to Jerusalem.--THACKERAY.
We know not the incantation of the heart that would wake
them;--_which_ if they once heard, they would start up to meet us
in the power of long ago.--RUSKIN.
He delivered the letter, _which_ when Mr. Thornhill had read, he
said that all submission was now too late.--GOLDSMITH.
But still the house affairs would draw her thence;
_Which_ ever as she could with haste dispatch,
She'd come again.--SHAKESPEARE.
As the sentences stand, _which_ really has no office in the sentence:
it should be changed to a demonstrative or a personal pronoun, and
this be place
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