V. Verba imperandi, &c.

VERBS signifying to command, (as impero, præcipio, dominor, edico, &c.) or to tell, shew, or signify, (as nunció, dico, narro, declaro, explico. monstro, significo, &c.) govern a Dative Case of the Person, and an Accusative of the Thing, if they be transitive.

1. COMMANDING.

1. We must take care that Reason governs that Part of the Mind which ought to obey. But how, you will say, must it govern it? Why, as a Master. governs his Servant, a General his Soldiers, a Parent his Son.

2. He best knows how to rule over his Inferiors, who hath first learned to obey his Superiors..

3. A vile Slave is intolerably insolent, when he can wantonly domineer over the greatest Persons. 4. He is a Slave, who cannot command his own Desires.

5. It is easier for a Man to govern all other Creatures, than to govern Men.

6. When we are charged to command ourselves, we are charged to take care that Reason may restrain Temerity.

7. How blind and mistaken are they, who desire to extend their Dominion beyond the Seas, and by the Help of their Soldiers to add Provinces to Provinces! being ignorant at the same Time, that to command themselves, is the greatest Empire in the World.

8. When Men are united in the Bonds of Affection, they will be first the Masters of those Passions to which others are Slaves; and then they feel a Joy in the Practice of Justice and Honesty.

9. Temperance is a Virtue, which commands the Affections in regard to Pleasures: some she utterly detests and drives from her; others she dispenses with; and never pursues them for Pleasure's sake only.

10. According to my Abilities, I give my FellowServants Instructions after the same Manner.

11. At that Time Rome was Mistress of the whole World.

12. I shall go in myself, and strictly charge the Servants, that they suffer no one to carry the Child away.

2. SHEWING, or TELLING.

1. Tradesmen will not shew their faulty Wares to Men of Skill.

2. Philosophy prompts us to relieve the Prisoner, the Infirm, the Necessitous; to shew the Ignorant their Errors, and rectify their Affections.

3. Nothing can be more just, than to shew the Way to the wandering Traveller.

4. He explained to me all the difficult Passages of that Author.

5. I think it proper not only to intimate to you, but to declare positively, that nothing can be more grateful to me than your Letters.

6. Flatterers find no Acceptance with good Princes he is more acceptable to them, whodeals sincerely and tells them the Truth.

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7. I will say to myself, "What is it that I labor and am so solicitous for? when it is but very little that I want, and it will not be long that I shall need any 'Thing."

8. Say not to thy Neighbour, "Go, and come again to-morrow;" when it is in your power to serve him to-day.

9. A Farmer, be he ever so old, will readily answer one, that asks him "for whose sake he plants?" for the sake of the immortal Gods: that as I received these Blessings from my Ancestors, I may transmit them to Posterity.

10. He saluted me in your Name.

11. He that reminds a Man of a Benefit, demands it again: nor must we tell others of it: he that hath conferred a Benefit, must be silent; let him speak of it, who hath received it.

12. Such is my Advice; and if you tell it to the Wise and Good, I doubt not but they will approve of it.

13. Be sure you tell him the whole Story, from the Beginning to the End.

14. Having so long professed a Friendship for you, I cannot but acquaint you with my Sentiments concerning your Affairs.

15. He gives himself a Denial, who asks an Impossibility.

Excipe rego, guberno, &c.

EXCEPT rego and guberno, which have an Accusative Case after them; also moderor and tempero; which Verbs, as in the Examples given in the Syntax, have either an Accusative, or a Dative Case, of the Person or Thing governed.

1. Rego, Guberno.

With an Accusative Case.

1. Happy are the People, whom their King goverus with Justice and Moderation.

2. I return you my most humble Thanks, that amidst so many important Affairs, you have been pleased to direct me in such Things as were offered to your Consideration,

3. You are not apt to mistake; but if you do, I can set you right.

4. I exhort you, that you would direct and govern all Things by your own Wisdom, and not suffer yourself to be led away by the Advice of others.

5. Providence will order every Thing for the best.

11. Moderor, Tempero.

1. With a Datite Case.

1. It requires no mean Capacity, tho' it be not perfect Wisdom, to be able to govern your Mind and Voice, when you are provoked.

2. Wine is not wont to govern Men, but Men Wine; such indeed as are of a good Disposition: but such as are of a bad one, would be the same, were they to drink nothing but Water.

3. We cannot pay too much Respect to those who seasonably correct our Age,

4. I cannot command myself so as not to exhibit one Example of Antiquity.

5. He was so passionate, he had no Command over his Tongue,

2. With an Accusative Case.

1. I will govern my Life and my Thoughts, as if all Men were to read the one, and see the other. 2. It is an idle Thing to pretend that we cannot govern our Anger.

3. They who, in the general Course of their Lives, govern themselves by no Rule, are ridiculous when they pretend Conscience in any Thing.

4. None find it more difficult than a King, especially in the Heat of his Youth, to bridle his Wrath.

5. In every Thing, rule but thyself, and thou shalt be at ease,

6. The Wind and the Weather direct all rural Affairs.

7. As no Animal, be it wild or tame, obeys Reason, (for it is the Nature of them to be deaf to Persuasion,) so the Passions, unless you can govern them thoroughly, will not be persuaded: they will not hear you, however weak they are in Degree.

8. The Access and Recess of the Sun order the Measure of Heat and Cold.

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9. He is a good Governor, who moderates his Power with Clemency.

VI. Verba fidendi Dativum, &c.

VERBS signifying to trust or believe, (as fido, confido, committo, mando, credo, &c.) govern a Dative Case of the Person, and an Accusative of the Thing trusted, &c.

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