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.
(_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.
6. To know what is best to do, and how to do it, is wisdom.
7. If any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is because the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
8. But if a man do not speak from within the veil, where the word is one with that it tells of, let him lowly confess it.
9. It behooved him to keep on good terms with his pupils.
10. Biscuit is about the best thing I know; but it is the soonest spoiled; and one would like to hear counsel on one point, why it is that a touch of water utterly ruins it.