2. Tell me wherein I have done amiss, and for the future I will be more careful.

3. I fear I shall be sent to the Mill, with my Sides bound about with hard Iron.

Quædam usurpantur, &c.

SOME Verbs are also used with a Genitive Case.

1. The Misbehaviour of my Son torments me to the very Soul.

2. Why do you so torment him, who never deserved ill of you?

3. I will go in and comfort him, that he may not so rack his Soul.

4. You act very absurdly, thus to torment yourself.. 5. I am in great doubt what this Business can be: I am resolved to know, that I may be delivered from this Fear.

The Construction of VERBS Passive. Passivis additur Ablativus, &c.

TO Verbs Passive is joined an Ablative Case of the Person, Agent, or Doer, with the Preposition à, or ab And sometimes a Dative Case.

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Note. The same Ablative, or Dative, will be the Nominative Case to the Verb, if it be made by the Active Voice; as in the Examples given-Laudatur ab his, culpatur ab illis: i. e. hi laudant, illi culpant.

1. With an Ablative Case.

1. It seldom happens, that he is loved by many, who, not deservedly, but by Arrogance, endeavours at Preference.

2. It is equal Praise, to be praised by one who is praised himself, and to be scandalized by the scandalous.

3. He must fear many, who by many is feared. 4. If all Things have been found out by the Ancients, yet the Use, the Knowledge, and right ordering of their Discoveries, will ever be new and if by them are found out the Remedies of the Mind, it is our part to seek how and when to apply them.

5. Men are apt to be led by Report and the Opinion of People, and to think that is honorable, which is by most commended.

6. The only way to Honor and Dignity, is to be praised and beloved by good and wise Men.

7. Where is the Man, who, on condition of neither loving, nor being beloved by any one, would chuse to wallow in Wealth and superfluous Plenty? Believe me, this is the Life of Tyrants; a Life filled with Suspicion and Anxiety: it has no room for Friendship.

8. Virtue is honorable without being ennobled, and is commendable in itself, tho' it were received by none.

2. With a Dative Case.

1. The same Man, who in his Prosperity was surrounded with a Troop of Attendants, is taken Notice of by no one in Adversity.

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2. Why would you take that away, which I would have given you? But even now you will not take it away, for nothing is taken but from him who would retain it.

3. A Man that applies himself to Business, is insensible when Years creep upon him: thus we slowly, softly, silently steal to the Grave, and the Flame of Life is not hastily extinguished, but burns

out.

Cæteri casus manent, &c.

ALL other Cases (except the transitive) are the same after a Verb Passive, as the Active requires. -Or, in other Words, the Case which a Verb Active governs, as Active, never continues in the Passive; the rest do: for though you may say, accusat servum, you cannot say, accusatur servum.

1. When they came before a Magistrate, the Servant only was accused of Theft.

2. How much is Virtue to be esteemed! It is neither lost by Water, nor by Fire; nor is changed by the Rage of Seasons, or the Convulsions of Government and with which, they that are endued, are the only rich Men.

3. He was first asked his Opinion; and it was not only approved of by the Senate, but the greatest Thanks were given to him.

4. Corn was bought yesterday at a great Price, but it will soon be cheaper.

Vapulo, veneo, liceo, &c.

THE Neuter-Passive Verbs, vapulo, veneo, li ceo, exulo, fio, have a Passive Construction: i. e. have an Ablative, or a Dative Case of the Agent or Doer after them, like Verbs Passive.

1. If he dares to touch me in his Passion, in Passion he shall be beaten by me.

2. He produced Witnesses, who saw it, to prove that he was beaten by him with the palms of his Hands, and with Scourges.

3. A pound of the Purple was sold for an hundred Pence.

4. Some Things are worth more than they were sold for to you, and therefore you owe something extraordinary for them, tho' they were bought.

5. The Book, tho' well executed, was prized at a low Value.

6. Perfidy, Bribery, and Covetousness, were banished by him out of the City.

7. The greatest and most unworthy Slaughter of the Citizens was made by him at that Time.

Construction of Verbs of the Infinitive Mood. Verbis quibusdam, &c.

THE Infinitive Mood is set after some Verbs, Participles, and Adjectives; and poetically after Substantives.

Note. When two Verbs come together without a Nominative Case between them, the latter Verb (whether it has the sign of the Active Voice to, or of the Passive to be, or not) shall be the Infinitive Mood.

1. VERBS.

1. He that knows not how to be silent, knows not how to speak.

2. As a Field, however good the Soil, cannot be fruitful without Culture, so neither can the Mind. without Learning.

3. All Resentment ought to end in Death, but not Friendship.

4. The loss of Money may easily be repaired, but Reputation once lost can scarce ever be recovered.

5. What Time, which generally wears out the deepest Impressions of Sorrow, would do of itself, that we ought to anticipate by Prudence, and not wait for a Remedy from Time, which we may sooner receive from Reason.

6. Far be it from us to despise the Poor for Poverty itself is a sufficient Burthen on those, who study to live by honest Labor and Industry, and who had rather buy than beg.

7. If the Mind lets go its Intention, and pursues not its Studies diligently, it must necessarily, go backwards: no one finds it where he left it: we must resolve therefore to go on and do our Endeavour: more remains than we have yet encountered: the being willing however to proceed, is great part of the Way.

8. When we begin to think and to perceive who we are, and in what Properties we differ from