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as to care nothing for Homer or Milton. There were plenty _more_ for him to fall in company with, as _some_ of the rangers had gone astray. The Soldan, imbued, as _most_ were, with the superstitions of his time, paused over a horoscope. If those [taxes] were the only _ones_ we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them. _Much_ might be said on both sides. If hand of mine _another's_ task has lightened. It felt the guidance that it does not claim. So perish _all_ whose breast ne'er learned to glow For _others_' good, or melt for _others_' woe. _None_ shall rule but the humble. [Sidenote: _Some inflected._] It will be noticed that some of these are inflected for case and number; such as _one other_, _another_. The word _one_ has a reflexive form; for example,-- [Sidenote: One _reflexive_.] The best way to punish _oneself_ for doing ill seems to me to go and do good.--KINGSLEY. The lines sound so prettily to _one's self_. HOLMES. Exercise.--Find sentences containing ten numeral pronouns. INDEFINITE PRONOUNS. [Sidenote: _Definition and examples._] 136. Indefinite pronouns are words which stand for an indefinite number or quantity of persons or things; but, unlike adjective pronouns, they are never used as adjectives. Most of them are compounds of two or more words:-- [Sidenote: _List._] _Somebody_, _some one_, _something_; _anybody_, _any one_ (or _anyone_), _anything_; _everybody_, _every one_ (or _everyone_), _everything_; _nobody_, _no one_, _nothing_; _somebody else_, _anyone else_, _everybody else_, _every one else_, etc.; also _aught_, _naught_; and _somewhat_, _what_, and _they_. The following sentences contain indefinite pronouns:-- As he had them of all hues, he hoped to fit _everybody's_ fancy. _Every one_ knows how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences. _Nothing_ sheds more honor on our early history than the impression which these measures everywhere produced in America. Let us also perform _something_ worthy to be remembered. William of Orange was more than _anything else_ a religious man. Frederick was discerned to be a purchaser of _everything_ that _nobody else_ would buy. These other souls draw me as _nothing else_ can. The genius that created it now creates _somewhat el
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