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PERSON. Pronouns have three persons in each number.
_I_, is the first person }
_Thou_, is the second person } Singular.
_He, she_, or _it_, is the third person }
_We_, is the first person }
_Ye_ or _you_, is the second person } Plural.
_They_, is the third person }
This account of persons will be very intelligible, when you reflect,
that there are three persons who may be the subject of any discourse:
first, the person who speaks, may speak of himself; secondly, he may
speak of the person to whom he addresses himself; thirdly, he may speak
of some other person; and as the speakers, the persons spoken to, and
the persons spoken of, may be many, so each of these persons must have a
plural number.
Pronouns of the second and third person, always agree, in person with
the nouns they represent; but pronouns of the first person, do not.
Whenever a pronoun of the first person is used, it represents a noun;
but nouns are _never_ of the first person, therefore these pronouns
cannot agree in person with their nouns.


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