“Whose is the crime, the scandal too be theirs;
    The knave and fool are their own libellers.”—­J.  Brown.

OBS. 7.—­The personal and the interrogative pronouns often stand in construction as the antecedents to other pronouns:  as, “He also that is slothful in his work, is brother to him that is a great waster.”—­Prov., xviii. 9.  Here he and him are each equivalent to the man, and each is taken as the antecedent to the relative which follows it.  “For both he that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified, are all of one:  for which cause, he is not ashamed to call them brethren.”—­Heb., ii, 11.  Here he and they may be considered the antecedents to that and who, of the first clause, and also to he and them, of the second.  So the interrogative who may be the antecedent to the relative that; as, “Who that has any moral sense, dares tell lies?” Here who, being equivalent to what person, is the term with which the other pronoun agrees.  Nay, an interrogative pronoun, (or the noun which is implied in it,) may be the antecedent to a personal pronoun; as, “Who hath first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed to him again?”—­Romans, xi, 35.  Here the idea is, “What person hath first given any thing to the Lord, so that it ought to be repaid him?” that is, “so that the gift ought to be recompensed from Heaven to the giver?” In the following example, the first pronoun is the antecedent to all the rest:—­

   “And he that never doubted of his state,
    He may perhaps—­perhaps he may—­too late.”—­Cowper.

OBS. 8.—­So the personal pronouns of the possessive case, (which some call adjectives,) are sometimes represented by relatives, though less frequently than their primitives:  as, “How different, O Ortogrul, is thy condition, who art doomed to the perpetual torments of unsatisfied desire!”—­Dr. Johnson.  Here who is of the second person, singular, masculine; and represents the antecedent pronoun thy:  for thy is a pronoun, and not (as some writers will have it) an adjective.  Examples like this, disprove the doctrine of those grammarians who say that my, thy, his, her, its, and their plurals, our, your, their, are adjectives.  For, if they were mere adjectives, they could not thus be made antecedents.  Examples of this construction are sufficiently common, and sufficiently clear, to settle that point, unless they can be better explained in some other way.  Take an instance or two more:  “And they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.”—­1 Cor., x, 11.

   “Be thou the first true merit to befriend;
    His praise is lost, who stays till all commend.”—­Pope.