It is a well-established usage to put the nominative form, as
well as the objective, after the preposition _but_ (sometimes _save_);
as,--

All were knocked down but _us_ two.--KINGSLEY.

Thy shores are empires, changed in all save _thee._--BYRON.

Rich are the sea gods:--who gives gifts but _they?_--EMERSON.

The Chieftains then
Returned rejoicing, all but _he_.
--SOUTHEY

No man strikes him but _I_.--KINGSLEY.

None, save _thou_ and thine, I've sworn,
Shall be left upon the morn.

BYRON.

Exercise.

Correct the italicized pronouns in the following, giving reasons from
the analysis of the quotation:--

1. _Thou_, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign.

2. Let you and _I_ look at these, for they say there are none such in
the world.

3. "Nonsense!" said Amyas, "we could kill every soul of them in half
an hour, and they know that as well as _me_."

4. Markland, _who_, with Jortin and Thirlby, Johnson calls three
contemporaries of great eminence.

5. They are coming for a visit to _she_ and _I_.

6. They crowned him long ago;
But _who_ they got to put it on
Nobody seems to know.

7. I experienced little difficulty in distinguishing among the
pedestrians _they_ who had business with St. Bartholomew.

8. The great difference lies between the laborer who moves to
Yorkshire and _he_ who moves to Canada.

9. Besides my father and Uncle Haddock--_he_ of the silver plates.

10. _Ye_ against whose familiar names not yet
The fatal asterisk of death is set,
_Ye_ I salute.

11. It can't be worth much to _they_ that hasn't larning.

12. To send me away for a whole year--_I_ who had never crept from
under the parental wing--was a startling idea.

II. POSSESSIVE FORMS.

[Sidenote: _As antecedent of a relative._]

407. The possessive forms of personal pronouns and also of nouns are
sometimes found as antecedents of relatives. This usage is not
frequent. The antecedent is usually nominative or objective, as the
use of the possessive is less likely to be clear.

We should augur ill of any _gentleman's_ property to whom this
happened every other day in his drawing room.--RUSKIN.

For _their_ sakes whose distance disabled them from knowing
me.--C.B. BROWN.

Now by _His_ name that I most reverence in Heaven, and by _hers_
whom I most worship on earth.--SCOTT.

He saw her smile and slip money