clared openly, and filled me with Dread and Shame.

3. These Things make me sick of Life.

4. I want your Advice: Direct me what youthink is best to be done in this, Affair.

5. Tho' my Affliction is not so pungent, and tho' I have, in some measure, recollected myself, yet I still want your Counsel.

6. In conferring or requiting a Kindness, our chief Duty is to help him first, who most wants our Help: but the contrary is practised by the Generality, who direct their greatest Services to him, from whom they hope the most, tho' he wants them not.

Fungor, fruor, utor, &c.

THESE eight Verbs, fungor, fruor, utor, (with their Compounds, perfungor, perfruor, abutor,) also vescor, muto, dignor, communico, supersedeo, govern an Ablative Case.

1. Fungor.

1. He discharges his Duty more commendably, who does it from Inclination, rather than from Fear of Evil.

2. A good Man does his Duty, tho' it be ever so painful and hazardous to him.

3. He came just time enough to perform the last Office for his Friend.

4. That Dignity, when I had discharged the highest Honors, and greatest Labors in the State, is now lost.

5. This grieves me; that the Man who was accounted one of the best of Citizens, should now perform the part of a bad Man.

6. The exporting of those Things wherewith we abound, and the importing of the Things we want, had been unknown, had not Men applied to these Labors.

2. Fruor.

1. It is Wisdom to enjoy Things present.
2. He is a Savage, who enjoys the Punishment of

others.

3. How many there are, who enjoy the Comfort of Light, and do not deserve it!

4. He alone seems to me to live and enjoy his Being, who, intent upon some great Action, insures to himself Reputation in the World.

5. As soon as the Weather began to be mild," we left the City, that we might enjoy the sweet Pleasures of the Country.

6. It is a blessed Thing to rejoice in Virtue; and all wise Men enjoy this Pleasure.

7. To all who preserve, or assist their Country, or increase her Glory, a certain Place is assigned in Heaven, where they enjoy an Eternity of Happiness.

3. Utor.

1. This is true: that as every one useth Fortune, so will he excel: and from hence we all pronounce him a wise Man.

2. He is a great Man, who useth earthen Vessels

as contentedly as if they were silver: nor is he less, who useth silver as earthen Vessels.

3. The great Art of enjoying Money, is to use. Liberality; yet so as not to hurt one's private Estate.

4. I think them wise, who use old Wine, and go to see old Plays.

5. The Character of a brave and resolute Man is not to be ruffled with Adversity, nor so disturbed as to quit his Post, as we say; but to preserve a Presence of Mind, and the Use of Reason, without departing from his Purpose.

6. To use the Affections well, is Virtue; to abuse them, is Vice...

7. We may use the Goods of Fortune, but not trust in them.

8. We may use the World, but not enjoy it.

9. All good Things from without, and which happen to Mortals by Accident, are not therefore commended, because a Man possesseth them, but because he useth them discreetly and honorably.

10. It is the Duty of the Mind to make use of Reason.

11. We cannot make a right use of the Mind, when we are crammed with much Meat and Drink.

12. We acted thus in obedience to the Times, and yet there are some, who have most immoderately and ungratefully abused our Candour.

4. Vescor.

1. Is my Friend living? does he still feed on @thereal Air?

2, The Gods take not in, by way of Nourishment, either Meat or Drink.

3. There is no Man of good natural Parts, or a liberal Education, who would enjoy Life, if it was upon the Terms of being shut out from all Business, and fed with the most exquisite Dainties.

1. Honesty in Dealing is necessary for all who buy or sell, who hire or let out, or who are engaged in any Business whatever: for without some Grains of it, even they, whose Food is Cheating and Villainy, could not live.

5. Muto.

1. What can be more infamous, than for Order to be changed into Confusion, and Liberty into Slavery?

2. It is no small Praise of Servants, not to be willing to run away if it was in their Power; but to be unwilling to change a tyrannical Servitude for Liberty, shews a servile Mind.

3. Now is the Time for Bravery; for none but a Victor can change War into Peace.

6. Dignor.

1. There is no Nature which has not in its Kind many Things, which, however unlike in themselves, are thought worthy of like Praise.

2. He so conducted himself in the Commonwealth, that he was deemed worthy of the greatest Honors.

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7. Communico.

1. Come as often as you please, I shall make you welcome at my Table.

2. He even refused to partake of the Glory of the Victory with any other.

8. Supersedeo.

1. Spare those Words; for nothing can be more disagreeable to me.

2. If you have resolved upon any Thing, in which my Opinion is not concerned with yours, I wish you would spare yourself the Trouble of a Journey hither but if you will communicate any Thing with me, I shall expect you.

Mereor, cum adverbiis, &c.

THE Verb mereor, to deserve, joined with the Adverbs, benè, malè, meliùs, pejùs, optimè, pessimè, will have an Ablative Case after it with the Preposition de.

1. To deserve well of our Country, to be esteemed, honored, and beloved, is a glorious Thing: but to be feared and hated, is infamous and detestable.

2. It is the part of a great Mind, not to be deterred by Ingratitude from the Desire of deserving well of all Men.

3. In nothing hath Nature more obliged us, than in that whatever is necessarily wanted or desired, it is accepted without Disdain.

4. None can deserve worse of their Country, than they, who, abusing their Liberty, endeavour to spread Discontent and groundless Jealousies among the People.