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of death. --BRYANT. How happy is he born or taught That serveth not _another's_ will. --WOTTON _That_ is more than any martyr can stand.--EMERSON. [Sidenote: _Caution._] [Sidenote: _Adjectives, not pronouns._] Hence these words are like adjectives used as nouns, which we have seen in such expressions as, "_The dead_ are there;" that is, a word, in order to be an adjective pronoun, _must not modify any word, expressed or understood_. It must come under the requirement of pronouns, and _stand for a noun_. For instance, in the following sentences--"The cubes are of stainless ivory, and on _each_ is written, in letters of gold, '_Truth_;'" "You needs must play such pranks as _these_;" "They will always have one bank to sun themselves upon, and _another_ to get cool under;" "Where two men ride on a horse, _one_ must ride behind"--the words italicized modify nouns understood, necessarily thought of: thus, in the first, "each _cube_;" in the second, "these _pranks_," in the others, "another _bank_," "one _man_." [Sidenote: _Classes of adjective pronouns._] 132. Adjective pronouns are divided into three classes:-- (1) DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS, such as _this_, _that_, _the former_, etc. (2) DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUNS, such as _each_, _either_, _neither_, etc. (3) NUMERAL PRONOUNS, as _some_, _any_, _few_, _many_, _none_, _all_, etc. DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS. [Sidenote: _Definition and examples._] 133. A DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN is one that definitely points out what persons or things are alluded to in the sentence. The person or thing alluded to by the demonstrative may be in another sentence, or may be the whole of a sentence. For example, "Be _that_ as it may" could refer to a sentiment in a sentence, or an argument in a paragraph; but the demonstrative clearly points to that thing. The following are examples of demonstratives:-- I did not say _this_ in so many words. All _these_ he saw; but what he fain had seen He could not see. Beyond _that_ I seek not to penetrate the veil. How much we forgive in _those_ who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! The correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, when _the latter_ was the King of Spain. _Such_ are a few isolated instances, accidentally preserved. Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap _the same_. They
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