PERSON 



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PERSONAL LIBERTY 



woods of both species are inferior to the ebon- 

 ies of their tropical cousins. 



The Japanese and Chinese cultivate varieties 

 of persimmon that bear fruit larger than and 

 much superior to the American. The Japanese 

 persimmon, known as Kaki, which has been in- 

 troduced into the Southern states by the De- 

 ment of Agriculture, has been grafted upon 

 the native tree with excellent results. In China 

 the tin-ing of persimmoas for the market is a 

 :il rapidly-growing industry. A dried 

 persimmon, both in appearance and in flav' 

 much like a dried fig. 



PERSON, pur'*' n. The power a noun or 



a pronoun has to indicate, by either form or 



whether it refers to the speaker, the person 



spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of, is 



called person. If the word denotes the person 



speaking, it is said to be in the first person ; if 



person addn s.-ed. it Is in the second pcr- 



if the person or object spoken about, it is 



in the third } r 



Person in Pronouns. It is only the personal 

 pronouns that make such distinction of gram- 

 matical person through a change in form, and 

 this fact that accounts for their name. /, 

 myself are pronouns of the first person; 

 , you, yourself are of the second person; 

 /(r, //. they, himself, themselves, and the 

 like, are pronouns of the third person. See 



Person in Nouns. While a noun do- 

 chaime in form to denote person, it is said to 

 possess this property according to the way in 

 which it is used, and we learn its person from 

 the context. 



It is said to be in the first person, for in- 

 stance, if it is in apposition with a lir-t 

 sonal pronoun; as, Can you believe such a 

 thing of "/ of a lifetime? We 



!: fund ourselves ; now. 



therefore. I. Jnhn Hamilton, do hereby ap- 

 point 



A noun is in the second person if used in 



apposition with a second personal pronoun 



\vay of address; si- I 



rjill Jofni Hamilton, to produce the 



, hound- that 

 thy dor 



A noun i 'lurd person if it -imply 



ill-note.; thr per-<>M or thr n of; as, 



John Hamilton if : most 



commonly used p< n which 



'..noun d 

 first or -.(.n,l |i r-on. n,.r u- d in direct ad- 



dress, classifies as a third-person noun, - 



though it may directly refer to a word denot- 

 ing first or second person. In the following 

 examples the itahci/. d words are all of the 

 third person: You are my prisoner; 1 under- 

 stand, your Highness; I am monarch of all I 

 sur\ 



Person in Verbs. Except in the case of the 

 verb to be, it is only in the third person 

 lar of the present tense that the person of the 

 subject affects the form of the verb. That is, 

 we say / call and you call, but he calls, he 

 /M///.V. or //. ;<**, adding * or es; or, in solemn 

 or poetic stylo, he calUth, /i Itadtth, he goeth, 

 adding tth. After the In tie-used pronoun thou, 

 the verb is inflected for person both in the 

 present and past tenses of the indicative; as, 

 thou callest, thou hast, thou seest, thou callcdst, 

 thou hadst, thou sawest. 



Thus we see that it is only in the case of 

 pronouns and verbs that person is of genuine 

 importance so far as the actual form of the 

 word is concerned. It is only for convenience 

 in grammatical analysis that person is said to 

 belong to nouns, since they a: able in 



form, whether denoting the speaker, the person 

 addressed, or the object or person c< 

 ing whom a statement is made. L.M.B. 



PER 'SONAL LIB'ERTY. The right of an 

 individual to life, liberty and the pursuit of 

 happiness is a foundation principle of 

 enlightened government. However, the nnhi 

 is subject to much abridgment, and th< 

 complex society becomes the ui. it.r must l>c 

 the limitations upon the liberties each person 

 may enjoy. In a comparative wilderness a 

 man may do practically whatever he wishes 

 to do; no other people may exist whose rights 

 may be tramped upon by anything he may do. 

 In a densely-populated section restrictions by 

 the hundred may be necessary to assure free- 

 dom and justice to all. As a matter of fact, 

 the personal liberty of an individual 

 only to the point when* hi- action- infringe 



Upon the rmht- of other people. When 



I shall do what I plea- he will 



d U'll tO avoid entering the circle of an- 

 other man'- nchts. 



You may walk across the vacant prop* 

 your neighbor until he asks you not to do so; 

 vou are a trespasser. You may not 

 always do what you please with your >\\: 

 . burn an old hmld 



your land may be the easiest means < 

 liing youix'lf of it. but if the fire would .ti- 

 the property of another wen a tree 

 laud you must not do it. A railroad 



