butives; because they denote the persons, or things, that make up a number, as taken Separately and fingly.

Own, and felf, in the Plural felves, are joined to the poffeffives, my, our, thy, your, ~ber, bis [4], ber, their; as, my own hand; myfelf, your felves both of them expreffing emphafis, or opposition; as, " I did it my own felf," that is, and no one elfe: the latter alfo forming the Reciprocal Pronoun; as," he hurt himself." Himfelf, themselves, feem to be used in the Nominative Cafe by Adjective, ftanding by itself: as, "He propofeth unto God their neceffities, and they their own requests, for relief in every of them." Hooker, v. "The corruptions and depredations to which every of thefe fubject." Swift, Contests and Diffentions. We now commonly fay, every one.

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[4] The Poffeffives his, minc, thine, may be accounted either Pronominal Adjectives, or Genitive, Cases of the refpective Pronouns. The form is ambiguous; juft in the fame manner as, in the Latin phrase “ cujus liber," the word cujus may be either the Genitive Cafe of qui, or the Nominative Masculine of the Adjective cujus, cuja, cujum. So likewife quei, tui, fui, noftri, veftri, have the fame form, whether Pronouns, or Pronominal Adjectives.

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Had he done so, himself had borne the crown, Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrower

Shaksp. Rich. 2. [down.

With this, my lord, myself have nought to do

+ En so myself bewails good Gloster's case
With sad unhelpful tears; -
Shaksp: 2 Hen. VI.

Casar, thy thoughts

touch their effect in this: the self art coming to see performed the dreaded act, which thou so sought 'st Whinder. – Ant. All.

[ 5 ] The lower class of people still call these words his self, & their selves.

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I will not touch thine eyes

For all the treasure that thine uncle owes:

Shakis. H. John.

i. e. possesses; not, as we shot now unders stand it, the treasure in which he is in= debted. It might be read owns.

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corruption instead of his felf, their selves [5]: as," he came bimfelf" they did it themfelves;" where himself, themselves, cannot be in the Objective Cafe. If this be fo, felf must be, in these inftances, not a Pronoun, but a Noun. Thus Dryden ufes it: "What I fhow,

Thy felf may freely on thyfelf beftow." Ourfelf, the Plural Pronominal Adjective with the Singular Subftantive, is peculiar to the Regal Style.

Own is an Adjective; or perhaps the Participle (owen) of the verb to owe; to be the right owner of a thing [6].

All Nouns whatever in Grammatical Conftruction are of the Third Perfon; except when an addrefs is made to a Perfon: then the Noun, (answering to what is called

[5] His felf and their felves were formerly in use, even in the Objective Cafe after a Prepofition: "Every of us, each for his felf, laboured how to recover him,” Sidney."That they would willingly and of their felves endeavour to keep a perpetual chastity." Stat, 2 and 3 Ed. VI. ch. 21.

[6] "The Man that oweth this girdle." Acts xxi. 11. Où enhavn duty whose girdle this is. the It is now printed owneth.

the Vocative Cafe in Latin,) is of the Second Perfon.

ADJECTIVE.

AN ADJECTIVE is a word added to a Subftantive to exprefs its quality [7]. In English the Adjective is not varied on account of Gender, Number, or Cafe [8].

[7] Adjectives are very improperly called Nouns ; for they are not the Names of things. The Adjectives good, white, are applied to the Nouns man, fnow, to exprefs the Qualities belonging to those Subjects; but the Names of thofe Qualities in the Abstract, (that is, confidered in themselves, and without being attributed to any Subject,) are goodness, whiteness; and these are Nouns, or Substantives.

[8] Some few Pronominal Adjectives must here be excepted, as having the Poffeffive Cafe; as one, other, another: "By one's own choice." Sidney. "Teach me to feel another's woe."

Pope, Uniy. Prayer.

And the Adjectives former, and latter, may be confidered as Pronominal, and representing the Nouns, to which they refer; if the phrafe in the following fentence be allowed to be just: "It was happy for the ftate, that Fabius continued in the command with Minucius: the former's phlegm was a check upon the latter's vivacity."

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