religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself [better, one’s self] unspotted from the world.”—­James, i, 27.  But, as its generality of meaning seems to afford a sort of covering for egotism, some writers are tempted to make too frequent a use of it.  Churchill ridicules this practice, by framing, or anonymously citing, the following sentence:  “If one did but dare to abide by one’s own judgement, one’s language would be much more refined; but one fancies one’s self obliged to follow, whereever the many choose to lead one.”—­See Churchill’s Gram., p. 229.  Here every scholar will concur with the critic in thinking, it would be better to say:  “If we did but dare to abide by our own judgement, our language would be much more refined; but we fancy ourselves obliged to follow wherever the many choose to lead us.”—­See ib.

OBS. 14.—­Of the pronominal adjectives the following distribution has been made:  “Each, every, and either, are called distributives; because, though they imply all the persons or things that make up a number, they consider them, not as one whole, but as taken separately. This, that, former, latter, both, neither, are termed demonstratives; because they point out precisely the subjects to which they relate. This has these for its plural; that has those. This and that are frequently put in opposition to each other; this, to express what is nearer in place or time; that, what is more remote. All, any, one, other, some, such, are termed indefinite. Another is merely other in the singular, with the indefinite article not kept separate from it.[175] Other, when not joined with a noun, is occasionally used both in the possessive case, and in the plural number:  as,

    ’Teach me to feel an other’s wo, to hide the fault I see;
    That mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.’—­Pope.

Each other and one another, when used in conjunction, may be termed reciprocals; as they are employed to express a reciprocal action; the former, between two persons or things; the latter, between[176] more than two.  The possessive cases of the personal pronouns have been also ranked under the head of pronominal adjectives, and styled possessives; but for this I see no good reason.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 76.