7. To be willing to restore Peace, is expedient for the Conqueror, and necessary for the conquered. 8. It is not lawful for any one to sin.

9. It is not plain to Panatius, what to others was clearer than the Light of the Sun.'

10. I have no Mind to write more concerning the Government.

11. Tradesmen are not at leisure to attend Horseraces.

12. No one regards how well he lives, but how long whereas every one has it in his power to live well, but no one to live long.

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13. It hurts no one to obey their Superiors in Things that are just and reasonable.

14. It well suits an Officer to use but few Words.

15. It neither becomes, nor is convenient for us to be discouraged by Dangers of any kind in the Discharge of our Duty.

16. He that has got a Competency, need wish for nothing more.

17. It fares but ill with Step-Children from a Mother-in-Law.

18. It much imports your Character, to set such an Example by your Diligence, that others may follow it.

19. It is agreeable to my Wish that you perform your Task.

20. It remains for the conquered to submit 10 what Law the Conqueror pleaseth to impose upon

him.

2. With an Accusative Case.

1. It delights some diligently to apply themselves to Labor, how much soever it may please others to follow their Pleasures.

2. It greatly delights me to see you in so merry a Humour.

3. It becomes all Men to do their utmost Endeavour, not to pass their Lives, as Beasts, in Obscurity and Silence.

4. It becomes every one to live according to their own Endowment: for that which is peculiarly a Man's own, always becomes him best.

5. It is commendable for you to do what it becomes you to do, rather than what you may do if you please.

6. It becomes a good Boy to do nothing that is doubtful without consulting his Tutor.

7. It is fit you should take what is your own.

8. It becomes not a wise Man to weep profusely at the Death of a Friend or Relation, and soon after to forget him, and bury the Memory of him in his Grave: thus Birds and Beasts love their Young almost outrageously for a Time; but having lost them, all Affection is extinguished: this, I say, becomes not a wise Man: let him persevere in the Remembrance of a Friend, but cease to

mourn.

His verò, attinet, pertinet, &c.

THESE three Impersonals, attinet, pertinet, spectat, require an Accusative Case after them, with the Preposition ad.

1. It is your Business to speak to that point, not mine.

2. They had no Business to interfere in this Affair.

3. It is my Duty to clear myself of that Suspicion.

4. It belongs to every Disquisition concerning Duty, to keep in our Eye the Excellence of Man's Nature above that of Brutes and all other Creatures.

5. Every Thing is to be done, that we may be most grateful: for this is our own Good; and it belongs not to others, like an Act of Justice for the greatest part of a Benefit returns upon itself: no one does good to others, but at the same Time he does good to himself.

His impersonalibus subjicitur, &c.

THESE six Impersonals, pœnitet, tædet, piget, pudet, miseret, miserescit, govern an Accusative Case of the Person, and a Genitive of the Thing, unless when both are Persons; as, Nos nostri pœnitet: and therefore in construing verbatim, the Accusative is the first of the two Cases; and in making Latin, the English must be changed, that the Nominative Case in English may almost always be the Accusative in Latin.

1. This is the Humour of almost all Men ;-we dislike our own.

2. Use Diligence, honor your Parents, and fear God: these three Things you never shall repent of.

3. I plainly see, that by the prudent Exertion of your Power and Influence, your Enemies will repent of their violent Proceedings.

4. Was you not ashamed of the Villainy, which the young Gentleman committed under your Direction, but you must tell Tales of him to his -Father?

5. He is truly good, who repents not of his Goodness and Sobriety.

6. As Folly, when it has got what it coveted, never thinks it has got enough; so Wisdom is always contented with what is present, and repents not of itself.

7. I left them and came abroad, so tired was I of their Conversation.

8. How wretched are they, who are neither sorry for, nor ashamed of their Infamy!

9. In Boys Nature is beheld as in a Mirror: How eager are they in their Disputes! How great their Contests! How are they delighted with Conquest! How ashamed to be conquered! How ynwilling to accuse themselves! How desirous to be praised! What Labors do they not undertake to. be Leaders among their Companions! How grateful to those who deserve well of them! What a Desire to express their Gratitude!-And these Qualities most eminently appear in Children of the best natural Endowments.

10. Who pitieth the Poor, and relieves his Necessities, does not impoverish, but enrich himself: for Divine Blessings are annexed to Charity.

11. We rather pity those who ask not our Compassion, than those who demand it.

12. What I told a certain Person, I will now

tell you :-that, as you have Compassion on others, others will have Compassion on you.

Verbum Impersonale, &c.

A Verb Impersonal of the Passive Voice, may be taken for every Person of both Numbers indifferently, by virtue of an oblique Case joined to it: as, Statur à me, à te, ab illo, ab illis; for sto, stas, stat, stant.

1. Where they live well, they live long.

2. Wars are to be undertaken, that we may live. in Peace without Injuries.

3. As we live not with Men completely wise and perfect, no Man, I think, is to be disregarded, in whom we can discern the least sign of Virtue.

4. We must take care that our Speech does not betray some Defect in our Manners, which generally happens when we speak of those who are absent for the sake of Detraction, or by the way of Ridicule, Severity, or Contumely.

5. As often as we speak or harangue, so often are we judged of by others.

6. We easily pardon those, who endeavour not to persevere, but to recall themselves from Error.

7. They who, while Children or Boys, were of too mean and obscure a Rank to be noticed by the Public, when they come to be young Men, ought to raise their Views to higher Objects, and pursue them by the most direct means: because that Age is not only not checked, but generally favored.