ummer by the bedside of the blind beggar,
_him_ that so often and so gladly I talked with.--DE QUINCEY.

SPECIAL USES OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS.

[Sidenote: _Indefinite use of_ you _and_ your.]

91. The word _you_, and its possessive case _yours_ are sometimes
used without reference to a particular person spoken to. They approach
the indefinite pronoun in use.

_Your_ mere puny stripling, that winced at the least flourish of
the rod, was passed by with indulgence.--IRVING

To empty here, _you_ must condense there.--EMERSON.

The peasants take off their hats as _you_ pass; _you_ sneeze, and
they cry, "God bless you!" The thrifty housewife shows _you_ into
her best chamber. _You_ have oaten cakes baked some months
before.--LONGFELLOW

[Sidenote: _Uses of_ it.]

92. The pronoun _it_ has a number of uses:--

(1) _To refer to some single word preceding_; as,--

Ferdinand ordered the _army_ to recommence _its_ march.--BULWER.

_Society_, in this century, has not made _its_ progress, like
Chinese skill, by a greater acuteness of ingenuity in
trifles.--D. WEBSTER.

(2) _To refer to a preceding word group_; thus,--

If any man should do wrong merely out of ill nature, why, yet
_it_ is but like the thorn or brier, which prick and scratch
because they can do no other.--BACON.

Here _it_ refers back to the whole sentence before it, or to the idea,
"any man's doing wrong merely out of ill nature."

(3) _As a grammatical subject, to stand for the real, logical
subject, which follows the verb_; as in the sentences,--

_It_ is easy in the world _to live after the world's opinion_.
--EMERSON.

_It_ is this _haziness_ of intellectual vision which is the
malady of all classes of men by nature.--NEWMAN.

_It_ is a pity _that he has so much learning, or that he has not
a great deal more_.--ADDISON.

(4) _As an impersonal subject in certain expressions which need no
other subject_; as,--

_It_ is finger-cold, and prudent farmers get in their barreled
apples.--THOREAU.

And when I awoke, _it_ rained.--COLERIDGE.

For when _it_ dawned, they dropped their arms.--_Id._

_It_ was late and after midnight.--DE QUINCEY.

(5) _As an impersonal or indefinite object of a verb or a
preposition_; as in the following sentences:--

(_a_) Michael Paw, who _lorded it_ over the fair regions o