Strictly speaking, I am a person, and of course a member of the human species, which …

I am a member of the great Aryan family of languages, and in India I am called Magadhi. I was born in Magadha, and speak a dialect of the sacred tongue of the twice-born classes.…

Strictly speaking, I am, properly speaking, I am, is a personal pronoun, of the first person, in the singular number, and, consequently, of the same value, in all respects, as I…