ive _myself_, _thyself_, and the others were formed by analogy
with these. _Himself_ and _themselves_ are the only ones retaining a
distinct objective form.

In the forms _yourself_ and _yourselves_ we have the possessive _your_
marked as singular as well as plural.

[Sidenote: _Use of the reflexives._]

96. There are three uses of reflexive pronouns:--

(1) _As object of a verb or preposition, and referring to the same
person or thing as the subject_; as in these sentences from Emerson:--

He who offers _himself_ a candidate for that covenant comes up
like an Olympian.

I should hate _myself_ if then I made my other friends my asylum.

We fill _ourselves_ with ancient learning.

What do we know of nature or of _ourselves_?

(2) _To emphasize a noun or pronoun_; for example,--

The great globe _itself_ ... shall dissolve.--SHAKESPEARE.

Threats to all;
To _you yourself_, to us, to every one.--_Id._

Who would not sing for Lycidas! he knew
_Himself_ to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.--MILTON.

NOTE.--In such sentences the pronoun is sometimes omitted, and the
reflexive modifies the pronoun understood; for example,--

Only _itself_ can inspire whom it will.--EMERSON.

My hands are full of blossoms plucked before, Held dead within
them till _myself_ shall die.--E.B. BROWNING.

As if it were _thyself_ that's here, I shrink with
pain.--WORDSWORTH.

(3) _As the precise equivalent of a personal pronoun_; as,--

Lord Altamont designed to take his son and _myself_.--DE QUINCEY.

Victories that neither _myself_ nor my cause always deserved.--B.
FRANKLIN.

For what else have our forefathers and _ourselves_ been
taxed?--LANDOR.

Years ago, Arcturus and _myself_ met a gentleman from China who
knew the language.--THACKERAY.

Exercises on Personal Pronouns.

(_a_) Bring up sentences containing ten personal pronouns, some each
of masculine, feminine, and neuter.

(_b_) Bring up sentences containing five personal pronouns in the
possessive, some of them being double possessives.

(_c_) Tell which use each _it_ has in the following sentences:--

1. Come and trip it as we go,
On the light fantastic toe.

2. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

3. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.

4. Courage, father, fight it out.

5. And it grew wondrous cold.

6. To