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[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.






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