9. In our early Youth, while we are incapable of reasoning, every one chooses to himself that Station of Life, which he has been most used to fancy; and therefore is often engaged in some fixed course of living, before he is capable to judge what is most proper for himself.

10. I know not how it is, but Friendship has insinuated itself through all Stations of Life, nor does it suffer any Plan of living to be without its Company; and all Mankind think the same of it.

2. With a Dative.

1. They are not fit to bear rule, who know not how to obey the Laws and Magistrates.

2. He that saith, a Day (and not rather an Hour, a Moment) sufficeth for the Overthrow of Empires, assigneth too long a Time to the more speedy Progress of human Calamities.

3. With an Ablative.

1. Each of the Virtues has its proper Function: thus Fortitude discovers itself in Toils and Dangers; Temperance, in neglecting Pleasures; Prudence, in the Choice of Good and Evil; and Justice, in giving every Man his own.

2. We are incited by Nature to be willing to do good to as many as we can; and especially by teaching and forming them to the Purposes of Wisdom..

3. Too late and altogether blameable are the Lamentations of those, whom we see employed in bewailing those Things, which have happened by their own Fault and Carelessness.

4. Nothing is more becoming, than, in all our Actions, and in all our Deliberations, to proceed with Constancy.

5. In the Conduct of Life, Facts are of more consequence than Words.

6. Delight not in telling incredible Things: nothing is to be got by it but the Reputation of an impertinent Liar.

7. That Excellence and Greatness of Soul, which exerts itself in acquiring Interests and Advantages both to ourselves and our Friends, becomes much more conspicuous in our properly disregarding those very Things.

8. It is superfluous to spend your Time in praicing him, whom all Men praise with one Mouth.

9. The Motions of the Mind are of two Kinds ; some arise from Thought, and some from Appetite: Thought chiefly applies itself in the Search of Truth; Appetite prompts us to Action. We are therefore to take care to employ our Thoughts upon the best Subjects, and subdue our Appetite to Reason..

10. So sweet is Liberty, that Death is not to be shunned in the Recovery of it.

4. With an Accusative Case.

1. All Duty that operates for the good of Society, is preferable to that Duty which is bounded by barren Speculation and Knowledge.

2. Philosophy is the Culture of the Mind, which plucks up Vice by the Roots, and prepares the Mind for receiving the good Seed.

3. Of the two Virtues, Honesty and Wisdom, the former is the most powerful in winning the

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Confidence of Mankind: for Honesty without Wisdom is an Inducement sufficient of itself; but Wisdom without Honesty is of no Effect for this Purpose.

4. In choosing those Things that are doubtful, we ought to apply to Men of Learning and Experience, and learn their Sense of every kind of Duty.

5. Do the liberal Sciences confer nothing on us? Yes, a great deal in other respects, but with regard to Virtue, nothing. Why then are Children instructed in them? Not because they can give Virtue, but because they enlarge and prepare the Mind for the Reception of Virtue.

II. SUPINES.

Supinum in um, &c.

THE Supine in um (or the first Supine) has an Active Signification; and is set before a Verb or Participle signifying Motion to a Place: i. e. when the English of the Infinitive Mood Active follows a Verb, Participle, (or Gerund) that signifies Motion to a Place, as coming, going; then instead of the Infinitive Mood, you must use the Supine in

um.

1. He went to play when he was sent to fetch his Brother.

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2. Such is the Good-nature of Parasites, they are used to deny no one who invites them to sup with him.

3. If a rich Man goes to ask a Favor of a poor Man, the poor Man is afraid to meet him; and when he has lost this Opportunity of serving himself, he too late wishes for it.

Supinum in u, &c.

THE Supine in u (or the latter Supine) has a Passive Signification, and is set after a Noun Adjective; i. e. when the English of the Infinitive Mood Passive (to be) comes after a Noun Adjective, it may be made by the Supine in u.

1. Since you command what is just, reasonable, and easy to be done, it would be a great Crime in me not to obey.

2. Many Things happen that are dreadful and hard to be borne; but the same God who permits them hath armed our Minds with Virtue and Patience.

3. Tho' it be painful to hear these Things, yet it is much more tolerable to hear than to see them. 4. It is hard to say what Power, Affability and Politeness in Conversation have, to win the Affections of Mankind.

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5. The Man who looks upon the Face of a real Friend, sees, as it were, the Transcript of himself: from hence, though absent or present, the needy have Plenty, the sickly are healthful; and, what is more extraordinary, the Dead live: so great is the Honor, Respect, and Affection, which we bear for a departed Friend.

6. It is strange, Men will eat such Herbs as Beasts will not eat; Herbs, which are not only horrible to eat, but in sound.

7. He that does what he has learned is best to be done, is said to be obedient.

8. We admire the Man who is not moved by Money, and justly think him worthy our Regard;

forasmuch as he despises those Things to which the Minds of Men are hurried and inflamed with Greediness.

Construction of Nouns of Time and Place. I. Of TIME.

Quæ significant partem Temporis, &c.

NOUNS signifying part of Time, (as Night, Day, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter,) answering to the Question, when? are frequently used in the Ablative Case: A, ab, or other Preposition, being understood.

1. You say, such-a-one lived fourscore Years: say rather, he was fourscore Years old; unless you mean to say, he lived only as Trees are said to live.

2. Happy is the Man, who, from the Support of a well-spent Life, is cheerful and resigned at the Day of Death.

3. Whatever happens in the World, is as usual and ordinary as a Rose in Spring, and Fruit in Summer.

4. Innumerable Things happen every Hour, which require the Counsel of Wisdom and Philosophy; which will exhort us to obey God, and more obstinately resist the Power of Fortune: it will teach us to trust in Providence, and bear patiently all the Casualties of Life.