Aliquando Relativum concordat, &c.

Sometimes a Relative, also a Noun Adjective, or Participle, agrees with the Primitive understood in the Possessive; as meas Fortunas,-qui-where qui agrees with the Primitive Pronoun mei understood in the Possessive meas.

1. By some Mistake perhaps in Battle, I may wound my Fellow-Soldier, and spare the Enemy: but this is an Accident, hot my Fault, who intended to strike an Enemy.

2. Let a Man be ever so ungrateful, or inhuman, he shall never destroy my Satisfaction, who have done a good Office.

3. I envy thy Happiness who, having a great deal, thinkest thou hast enough.

4. Nobody regards my Words, calling for Help : I am poor!

5. Trust your Secrets to no one, unless it be as much to the Advantage of the Person that hears them, to conceal them, as to yours, that tell them.

6. I hate to see thy Face who hast slandered me behind my Back.

7. I wonder at your Folly, to think to wash a Blackamoor white!

Si Nominativus Relativo et Verbo, &c.

IF a Nominative Case is put between a Relative and a Verb, the Relative is governed by the Verb, For by some other Word in the same Sentence with the · Verb: because a Relative, when it is not the Nominative Case to the Verb, is used as a Substantive in the same Variety of Cases: And if you turn the Re

lative, as is necessary in parsing, or making Latin, into the Pronoun is, ea, id, &c. you will plainly perceive what it is governed of; as in the Example before you, Cujus Numen adoro, whose Deity I adore: i. e. his Deity, or, the Deity of him, ejus Numen.

The Relative governed of the Verb; as,

1. Fortune takes away nothing but what she gave: But she gives not Virtue; therefore Virtue is a Good, which she cannot take away.

2. It is much more tolerable, not to acquire, than to lose; and therefore you see those Men more cheerful, whom Fortune never took any Notice of, than those whom she hath deserted.

3. Happy is the Man, who loves God, and whom God loveth.

4. A good Man does good to those whom it is in his Power to serve, and injures no one.

5. That Virtue, which Fortune governs not, is extraordinary.

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6. Courtship and Flattery have sometimes effected those Things, which Threats and Blows never could.

7. That Man, we may be sure, is a Person of true Worth, whom we find, those that envy him most, are yet forced to commend.

8. Fear many Times makes us run into those Dangers, which our Prudence might have prevented.

9. Labour to overcome such Things, as it is a Shame for the Mind to be a Slave to; as. Gain, Anger, Pleasure, Grief, &c.

10. Wicked Men oftentimes draw upon them

selves that which they fear, by those very Means whereby they study to avoid it.

11. The greatest Art that a truly wise Man studies, is to understand what he ought to do, and what to avoid, upon all Occasions.

12. The more any Man knows, the less he is apt to talk for his Wisdom makes him coolly deliberate what, and when it is fit to speak.

13. I have paid the Money to the Man I owed it.

Or of some other Word in the Sentence; as,

1. What Happiness, what an honorable old Age awaits him, who hath given himself up to the Patronage and Direction of wise Men! He will have those with whom he may deliberate concerning the least and the greatest Affairs; whom he may consult daily concerning himself; from whom he may hear the Truth without Contumely, and be praised without Flattery; and to whose Likeness he may form himself.

2. We must first inspect ourselves, and examine our own Strength; then the Business we are going upon; then those for whose sake, or with whom, it is to be transacted; and undertake that only, the End of which we can accomplish, or at least hope to do so.

3. Nothing so much delights the Mind, as sweet and faithful Friendship: how great a Good is it, to find a Breast in which you may safely lodge every Secret; whose Conversation may ease your Anxiety; whose Judgment may give you Counsel; and whose Cheerfulness may dissipate all Sorrow!

4. As there is nothing more necessary than a Friend, so a principal Point of Wisdom consists in the Choice of him: concerning which, observe this Rule among others: Enter not into Familiarity with a Man prone to Anger.

5. Every one loves, or pretends to love him, whose Liberality is so well known every where, that it hath procured him the Name of a bountiful Giver.

6. Beauty is a Good, than which nothing is more frail.

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7. Next unto Virtue, let Children be bred up to Industry; without which indeed they cannot be virtuous for both Poverty and Fraud are commonly the Fruit of Negligence and Sloth; when an active Diligence is wont to enrich Men, without the Help of Deceit.

Construction of SUBSTANTIVES.

Quum duo Substantiva, &c.

WHEN two Substantives of different Signification meet together, with the Particle of between them, (or implied,) the latter shall be put in the Genitive Case.

1. What profits it to point out things already inanifest? A great deal: For sometimes, though we know a Thing, yet we regard it not. Admonition perhaps does not instruct, but it makes the Mind intent; it excites Diligence, and strengthens

the Memory. The Mind also sometimes pretends not to comprehend Things that are evident. It is necessary therefore to inculcate the Knowledge even of such Things as are most known.

2. The Joy of the wise Man is firm and lasting; it has no Connection with Chance or Accidents; it is always calm and easy; for it depends not upon any Thing foreign, nor wants the Applause of Men.

3. The Mind of the wise Man is never free from Joy: but this Joy cometh not but from the Consciousness of Virtue: No one can truly rejoice, but the brave, the just, the temperate.

4. If you would be happy, pray that none of those Things, which Men generally pray for, may be your Portion. There is but one Good, the Cause and Foundation of an happy Life; and that is, a sure Confidence in Virtue.

5. The Knowledge of a Crime is the first Step of Reformation: for he that knows not that he hath. sinned, will not desire to be reformed.

6. Wickedness will never get to such an Height, will never so conspire against Virtue, as not to. leave the Name of Philosophy venerable and sacred.

7. Without a Companion, the Possession of no Good can be agreeable.

8. Calamity is the Occasion of Virtue: We justly call them miserable, who grow listless with too much Happiness, whom a sluggish Tranquillity detains, as it were, in a calm Sea.

9. Let neither Love of Friends, nor Hatred of Enemies, neither Hope of Pleasure or Gain, nor Fear of Pain or Damage, neither prosperous nor cross Events, ever move thee to turn aside from the Rule of Virtue.