21. I would rather make my name than inherit it. — Id. 22. Obedience completes itself in understanding.-Brooks. 23. If you read a poet's masterpieces, you know them. If you have read everything which he has written, you know him. — Id.

24. It is mind after all which does the work of the world. — Channing.

it.

25.

26.

The thunder,

Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage,
Perhaps hath spent his shafts. - Milton.

Or if Nature feeble were,

Heaven itself would stoop to her. - Id.

27. The king himself has followed her

28. It is noble to seek truth, and it is beautiful to find - Smith.

29. We have met the enemy, and they are ours. Perry. 30. Poetry is a jealous mistress; she demands life, worship, tact, the devotion of our highest faculties. Stedman. 31. Write it on your hearts that every day is the best

day of the year. - Emerson.

32. They that govern make the least noise. Selden. 33. Ye little stars! hide your diminished rays. Pope. 34. Methinks, with his heavy heart and weary brain, Time should himself be glad to die. Hawthorne.

35. What would the rose with all her pride be worth Were there no sun to call her brightness forth?

B. DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN.

- Moore.

Note that this, that, these, those, in the following sentences are pronouns, and are used to point out or direct attention to the objects to which they refer.

1. This is no fit place for you and me. This is a place they are bound to watch. - Stevenson.

Demonstra

2. Those who have known grief seldom seem sad.

-Beaconsfield.

3. They had few books, but these were of the best.

4. We work, and that is godlike.-Holland.

132. A pronoun that is used to direct attention

tive to that which it represents is called a demonstraPronoun. tive pronoun.

Demonstrative is from the Latin demonstratus pointed out or shown.

The demonstrative pronouns are this, plural these, and that, plural those.

This is used to direct attention to a person or thing near at hand or near in thought.

That is used to direct attention to a person or thing more remote in position or in thought.

This refers to the nearer antecedent in the sentence; that to the antecedent more remote; as:

1. Some place the bliss in action, some in ease,
Those call it pleasure; and contentment, these.

- Pope.

2. Farewell, my friends; farewell, my foes;
My peace with these, my love with those. · Burns.

Demonstrative pronouns are used alone, or are used with their antecedents with the force of adjectives.

Name each demonstrative pronoun in the following sentences; tell whether it is used alone or with its antecedent, and explain whether it expresses a near or a remote relation :

1. That life is long which answers life's great end.

-Young.

2. These are no more his moods than are those of religion and philosophy. - Emerson.

3. In this fool's paradise he drank delight. Crabbe. 4. These little things are great to a little man.

5. To-morrow is that lamp upon the marsh which a traveler never reaches. Tupper.

6. This is my birthday, and a happier one was never mine. Longfellow.

7.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. - Johnson.

8. This is a reading and a thinking age. - Phillips.

9. That is the bitterest of all-to wear the yoke of our own wrongdoing. Eliot.

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10. Has not God borne with you these many years?

11. Those families, you know, are our upper crust.

Ballou.

- Cooper.

12. The power of perception is that which we call understanding.

Locke.

C. INDEFINITE PRONOUNS.

SIMPLE INDEFINITE PRONOUNS.

Note that the words in full-faced type in the following sentences are pronouns, for they are used to refer to persons or things without naming them.

1. All would live long, but none would be old. — Johnson. 2. Each shall give us a grain of gold after the washing. - Emerson.

3. Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it. Warner.

4. I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.- Dryden.

Note that these pronouns are used to refer to any or to no specific person or thing, or to an indefinite quantity or number of persons or things.

Indefinite 133. A pronoun that is used to refer to any or Pronoun. to no specific person or thing, or to an indefinite quantity or number of persons or things, is called an indefinite pronoun.

One.

Indefinite is from the Latin indefinitus-not explicit, vague.

134. Some indefinite pronouns are used with their antecedents with the force of adjectives, and for that reason they are sometimes called adjective pronouns.

The indefinite pronouns are more numerous than all the other pronouns, but the actual number of indefinite. pronouns is a matter of opinion, for the dividing line between indefinite pronouns and substantive adjectives and nouns is not so clearly defined as to be generally accepted.

The following are the more generally accepted indefinite pronouns :

One is from the old numeral, an, and as an indefinite pronoun is especially used for the word man (German, man), which is found in early English. It takes the place of a third personal pronoun with indeterminate gender. As a pronoun it is inflected in both numbers, and with the force of an adjective is used with nouns in the singular number; as,

1. One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Eliot.

2. Long pains are light ones; cruel ones are brief.- Saxe. 3. To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

Smith.

4. One on God's side is a majority.

Phillips.

The tendency among careful writers is to use the possessive one's instead of his when used to express the idea of indeterminate gender.

Other,

Other (the different one), another (one other), either (one out of two), neither (not one out of two), can be Another, used in a technical sense only in referring to one of two persons or things, or to one of two classes of persons or things.

Other means one separated from all others.

Another means one added to the others.
Either offers a choice of one or the other.

Neither denies a choice of one or the other.

135. Either and neither are sometimes called alternative pronouns.

In its substantive use other is declined in both numbers and with the force of an adjective is used with nouns in the singular or in the plural number; as,

1. Avoid witticisms at the expense of others. Mann.
2. The way to find truth is by others' mistakes. — Selden.
3. I was born to other things. - Tennyson.

Another, either, neither, are declined in the singular number, and with force of adjectives are used with nouns in the singular; as,

1. Another's sword had laid him low. - Campbell.

2. Either's heart did ache a little while with thought of the old days. Morris.

Either, Neither.