“Of Sericana, where Chinese-men drive,
    With sails and wind, their cany wagons light.”

[172] The last six words are perhaps more frequently pronouns; and some writers will have well-nigh all the rest to be pronouns also.  “In like manner, in the English, there have been rescued from the adjectives, and classed with the pronouns, any, aught, each, every, many, none, one, other, some, such, that, those, this, these; and by other writers, all, another, both, either, few, first, last, neither, and several.”—­Wilson’s Essay on Gram., p. 106.  Had the author said wrested, in stead of “rescued,” he would have taught a much better doctrine.  These words are what Dr. Lowth correctly called “Pronominal Adjectives.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 24.  This class of adjectives includes most of the words which Murray, Lennie, Bullions, Kirkham, and others, so absurdly denominate “Adjective Pronouns.”  Their “Distributive Adjective Pronouns, each, every, either, neither;” their “Demonstrative Adjective Pronouns, this, that, these, those;” and their “Indefinite Adjective Pronouns, some, other, any, one, all, such, &c.,” are every one of them here; for they all are Adjectives, and not Pronouns.  And it is obvious, that the corresponding words in Latin, Greek, or French, are adjectives likewise, and are, for the most part, so called; so that, from General Grammar, or “the usages of other languages,” arises an argument for ranking them as adjectives, rather than as pronouns.  But the learned Dr. Bullions, after improperly assuming that every adjective must “express the quality of a noun,” and thence arguing that no such definitives can rightly be called adjectives, most absurdly suggests, that “other languages,” or “the usages of other languages,” generally assign to these English words the place of substitutes!  But so remarkable for self-contradiction, as well as other errors, is this gentleman’s short note upon the classification of these words, that I shall present the whole of it for the reader’s consideration.

“NOTE.  The distributives, demonstratives, and indefinites, cannot strictly be called pronouns; since they never stand instead of nouns, but always agree with a noun expressed or understood:  Neither can they be properly called adjectives, since they never express the quality of a noun.  They are here classed with pronouns, in accordance with the usages of other languages, which generally assign them this place.  All these, together with the possessives, in parsing, may with sufficient propriety be termed adjectives, being uniformly regarded as such in syntax.”—­Bullions’s Principles of English Gram., p. 27. (See also his Appendix III, E. Gram., p. 199.)