The following instances are the latest specimens of its use:
"The apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy. I have read the cause of his effects in Galen; it is a kind of deafness."—2 Henry IV. i. 2.
"If the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out."—Luke xiv. 35.
"Some affirm that every plant has his particular fly or caterpillar, which it breeds and feeds."—Walton's Angler.
"This rule is not so general, but that it admitteth of his exceptions."—Carew.
CHAPTER VII.
ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WORD SELF.
[§ 446]. The undoubted constructions of the word self, in the present state of the cultivated English, are threefold.
1. Government.—In my-self, thy-self, our-selves, and your-selves, the construction is that of a common substantive with an adjective or genitive case. My-self = my individuality, and is similarly construed—mea individualitas (or persona), or mei individualitas (or persona).
2. Apposition.—In him-self and them-selves, when accusative, the construction is that of a substantive in apposition with a pronoun. Himself = him, the individual.
3. Composition.—It is only, however, when himself and themselves, are in the accusative case, that the construction is appositional. When they are used as nominatives, it must be explained on another principle. In phrases like