?7* -on personal pronovHT, Vet. 24; 



Own. 

 Own, as well as self, has been usually clafsed among 

 pronouns ; and though we cannot admit it into this 

 ciafs, and though it be also very often connected with 

 se/f, it is yet, in its gramiraital chai acteristics, a 

 good deal different from it. Self, we have seen, is to 

 be considered, in strict propriety, as a noun ; own, on 

 the contrary, is merely a definitive ; and, as such, it 

 must in all cases be connected with some noun 

 which it serves to define. 



" We have seen above, that all those nouns which 

 are names of the parts only of any object, stand in 

 need of particular definitives to limit their general 

 meaning, and make that meaning particulaf. A- 

 mong these definitives, own comes in as an auxiliary 

 to give them great>;r force and energy. Thus, in 

 the phrase, " I cut my hand," the definitive wzy fixes 

 the meaning of the word hand. But it acquires yet 

 more force and energy, by adding the auxiliary defi- 

 nitive, own, " I cut my own hand" This is the 

 ■precise idea denoted by the word own, on all occasions. 

 This, That, These, Those. 

 ■ These four words have also, by many, been clafsed 

 among pronouns, though they more properly belong 

 to the clafs of definitives. Dr Johnson, who seems to 

 have considered gram.nar, especially Engli(h gram- 

 mar, as below his notice, though he was under the 

 n^cefsity of writing upon that subject, has been plea_ 

 se"d to adopt the idea of their being pronouns, with- 

 out reserve ; and, in comformity with this idea, has 

 called these the plural of this, and thote the plural of 

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