Quædam accipiendi, distandi, &c.

VERBS signifying to receive, or to be distant, or to take away, are sometimes joined with a Dative Case.

1. I desire you to treat my Friend as you promised me you would, when we met last.

2. Praise not thyself, which is both indecent and imprudent; but take care to do praise-worthy Things, which will force Commendation even from Strangers.

3. The Delay of that which a Man eagerly expects, is such an Affliction, that it differs little from a lingering Disease.

4. My Talk and Way is very different from them.

5. He not only disagrees with others, but with himself.

6. Let not your Life disagree with your Words. 7. They trifle, who desire me to take away a Lamb from a Wolf.

8. Fortune can neither give nor take from any one Probity, Industry, and other good Arts.

9. Men are apt to detract from those, whom they sce rising above them.

10. It is not lawful for a Man to take from one what he may give to another: therefore it consists not with the Character of a good Man, to lye, slander, anticipate, and mislead another, for his own Profit. :5

11. To rob a Man of any Thing, or to accommodate yourself by incommoding him, is more against Nature, than Death, Poverty, Pain, or any

external Evil: because this tends to the Ruin of all Intercourse and Society amongst Men.

12. I have often heard say, that Time cures Men of their Trouble.

13. It is as improper to sing pleasant Songs to a Man full of Grief, as to take away his Garment from him in sharp Weather.

14. The Thief makes a pitiful Bargain: he steals from his Neighbour his Money or Cattle, and in Exchange for it, he must pay his Life, or his Soul; perhaps both.

15. He whose Experience and Observation of Things, hath made him cautious and circumspect, foresees a Calamity before it comes, and withdraws himself from the Danger into a Place of Safety.

Quibuslibet verbis additur Ablativus, &c.

TO some Verbs is added an Ablative Case taken Absolutely; (i.e. neither governing, nor governed of a Verb; but independent, and not joined to another part of a Sentence by of, or from, &e.) And this Ablative Case (of two Nouns together, or a Noun, or Pronoun, with a Participle expressed or understood) may be resolved by any of these Wordsdum, cùm, quando, &c. as, Imperante Augusto, i. e. dum Augustus imperavit: so Satúrno Rege, i. e. Regnante, or, dum regnavit Saturnus: Me duce, i. e. Me ducente; or, si dux ego fuero. The common Signs in English, before the Substantive or Participle, are, having, being, after, either expressed or understood.

1. Nature our Guide, we cannot err.

2. Without a Genius, our Labor is but in vain.

3. Such Riches are to be sought, which, when the Ship is broken, can swim with the Owner.

4. When Friendship is established, and Fidelity has been tried, the Commemoration of good Offices is unnecessary.

5. It is proper for Gentlemen to walk through the City with a moderate Pace: it is servile to run in a Hurry, especially when Things are calm, and the Enemies are slain.

6. Take away the Faculties of the Soul, and what Difference is there, I do not say between a Beast and a Man, but between a Man and a Stone, or a Tree, or any Thing of the like kind?

7. A passionate Man may do such Things when the Fit is upon him, as none but a Fool would commit: but he is nothing so bad as he, who, suppressing his Wrath, deliberately contrives a cruel Revenge.

8. He is an excellent Pattern for a good Servant, who looks to, orders, and diligently takes care of his Master's Business in his Absence.

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9. As human Concerns are frail and fading, we ought. to be curious in our Search of an Object whom we may love, and by whom we may be loved: for take from Life Endearment and Kindness, you take from it all that renders it desirable.

10. Laws were made on two accounts: as well that it may be lawful for no one to do an unjust Thing, as, that they who have transgressed, being punished, others may become better.

11. I could wish the whole of Philosophy was presented to our View, in like Manner as is the Face of the Universe; for it would engage all Men in the Admiration of it; those Things being

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neglected, which we now think great, through Ignorance of what is truly so.

12. True Friendship has this Advantage over Kindred-that Affection may be separated from Kindred, but it cannot from Friendship: for take away Affection, you take away the Name of Friendship, but not of Kindred.

13. Without Friendship there can be no Pleasure in Life.

14. Friendship is nothing else but the highest Agreement of all Things, both divine and human; than which I know not whether (Wisdom excepted). any Thing better is given by the immortal Gods to Man.

15. They who are Friends for the sake of Advantage only, quit their Friendship when the Hope of Profit is removed.

16. Tears are very excusable, if they run not down immoderately, and we endeavour to suppress them our Eyes ought not to be dry upon the Loss of a Friend, nor yet to stream: we may weep, but we must not bewail.

17. Virtue is an Affection of the Mind, constant, uniform, rendering the Possessors of it commendable, and is in itself, exclusive of all accidental Utility, praise-worthy; from whence proceed just Thoughts, honest Intentions, and every right Action.

18. When Pleasure reigns, the greatest Virtues are disregarded.

19. As that which is disgraceful cannot be rendered honest, so whatever is not virtuous can never be rendered profitable in Contradiction and Opposition to Nature.

20. Arts and Precepts avail nothing without the Assistance of Nature.

21. Wisdom alone can drive Sorrow from our Minds, and free us from all Fear: by whose Instruction we may live in Tranquillity, every ardent Desire being suppressed.

22. The Death of a young Man resembles the Force of Fire overpowered by a Quantity of Water; whereas old Men, without the Application of any Force, depart as naturally as Heat, when the Fire is consumed to Ashes.

23. They are not wretched, to whom undeservedly, and their Innocence still safe, some Misfortune happens; but they are to be deplored, who of their own Accord depart from what is right, though no Misfortune should follow.

Verbis quibusdam additur, &c.

TO some Words is added an Ablative Case of the Part, (i. e. when the Word expresseth Part, or Parts of a Thing,) as ægrotat animo: and sometimes an Accusative (by the Figure Synecdoche) as candet dentes. The Sign is in, or as to.

1. With an Ablative.

1. It is better once to resolve, than always to be in Suspense in our Minds, and vexed and tormented in our Thoughts.

2. With an Accusative.

1. He is a wise Mau, who in all Things follows Reason for his Guide.