2. Every one that hath the least Generosity in him, is desirous of Fame.

3. Young Men are desirous of Honor and Victory, more than Money; as not having yet been in want.

4. He that is so greedy of Money, as not to care how he gets it, instead of raising his Family, confounds it but the Man who hateth Bribes, and all unlawful Ways of Gain, shall prosper.

5. Wisdom extols her Children, and succours those who are zealous for her.

6. By Nature Mortals are greedy of Dominion. 7. We are desirous of our Friends Company, because we know not how long we may enjoy them.

8. Many, and especially they who are ambitious after Grandeur and Glory, take from some, that they may give to others; and account themselves generous to their Friends, if they enrich them at any Rate: but this is so far from being consistent with, that nothing can be more contrary to our Duty.

2. AVERSION, or CARELESSNESS.

1. Most Men are impatient of Labour in searching after Truth, and embrace soonest the Things that are at hand.

2. All Power cannot bear an Associate.

3. The richest Man, careless of his Affairs, is soon reduced to Poverty.

4. We are apt to extol ancient Things, regard. less of modern.

5. Virtue regards not Fortune.

3. KNOWLEDge.

1. A Mind, conscious of its own Integrity, triumphs over unjust Disgrace.

2. A Man well skilled in the Law, has an Opportunity of doing as much Harm as Good.

3. Men often neglect, and proudly overlook the modest and harmless; but patronise the audacious, tho' guilty of abominable Crimes,

4. Can you presume to visit me, when you know you played such an audacious Prank?

5. "Tis both pleasant and honorable to be Master of the ancient Writers.

4. IGNORANCE.

1. If in speaking we make not use of the liberal Arts, yet it easily appears, whether we are ignorant of them, or have learned them.

2. The Ant, in no wise ignorant of what is to come, lays up Food against Winter.

3. It is useful that a Man be willingly ignorant of those Things, which are beyond his Capacity. 4. He was so stupid, that he knew nothing.

5. Having tasted Misery myself, I have learned to assist the Wretched.

5. MEMORY.

1. Reason is the sole Arbitress of Good and Evil: Sense cannot give its Opinion but of the Things present; is not provident of what is to come, nor mindful of what is past; knows no

Consequence; tho' on this depends that constant Tenour of Life that leads to Perfection.

2. Be always mindful of your Duty to God, your Neighbour, and yourself.

3. You have a Leader mindful of you, unmindful of himself: a Happiness not always to be met with. 4. A Man of Probity will be always mindful of his Friend.

5. When you have sufficiently provided for yourself, remember me.

6. FORGETFULNESS.

1. He that is thinking of what he shall still receive, generally forgets what he has received: nor has Covetousness any greater Evil in itself, than that it is ungrateful.

2. Fortuné is continually making Choice of new Evils to remind us of her Power, as if we had forgot it.

3. All Men hate those who are unmindful of Benefits.

4. I will be mindful of you, tho' I am forgetful of myself.

5. So great is his Integrity, and so just are his Actions, that the latest Posterity shall not be unmindful of these Things.

Adjectiva verbalia in ax, &c.

VERBAL Adjectives in ax (i. e. Adjectives derived from Verbs, and ending in ax) govern a Genitive Case: The Sign of, or in: as in the Example given, Audax ingenii, bold of (or in) Disposition.

1. In what consists an happy Life? In Security and uninterrupted Tranquillity; which proceeds from Greatness of Mind, and from Constancy tenacious of a right Judgment.

2. No one can maintain Justice, who is possessed of the Desire of heaping up more than is enough. 3. The Memory of a Kindness is oftentimes very short, but it is apt to retain an Injury.

4. The Heart of a Fool, like a broken Vessel, is not able to hold any Knowledge.

5. Gluttony is consumptive of an Estate, whereas Temperance preserves it.

6. Most Men are sagacious in their own Profit; but who endeavours the Good of the Public?

7. I that was ever shy of Business, and born for thoughtless Ease, now suffer Extremities.

8. Instruct a Child, as soon as he is capable of Instruction, and season his Mind with the Principles of Virtue, before he receives other Impressions; and probably they will grow up with him, so that he will not forsake them as long as he lives.

Nomina Partitiva, &c.

NOUNS Partitive, called so because they signify Part, or some one or more, as, aliquis nostrum ; also, Nouns of Number, (as one, two, three; first, second, third;) also, Adjectives of the Comparative and Superlative Degree; and some put partitively, having of, or among, after them; govern a Genitive Case, from which they borrow their Gender: that is, are of the same Gender with the Genitive Case they govern: and the Reason is plain; for some Case or other of that Word which is the Genitive, is under

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stood, as in the Examples given: Primus Regum; Primus is of the same Gender with Regum, because Rex is understood: Primus Regum, i. e. Primus Rex Regum: so Dextra Manuum, i. e. Dextra Manus Manuum.

I. NOUNS PARTITIVE and put partitively.

1. The Fortune, which is common and uncertain, and which none of us can shun, or by any Means make better, we must bear with Patience and Discretion.

2. Not any of us can be formed, or the Life and Disposition of any one be changed, on a sudden.

3. Of all the Degrees of Society, none is more excellent, none more stable, than when worthy Men, through a Similarity of Manners, are intimately connected, together.

4. There is none of us, who have had a liberal Education; who thinks not upon his Masters, Tutors, and the very Place itself, with a pleasing Remembrance.

5. Of all Things, there is not any more proper to secure Power, than to be beloved; nor any more unlikely, than to be feared.

6. Anger is a Desire of Revenge, joined with Grief, because a Man's Self, or some of his, either are, or seem, to be neglected.

7. Of all these Things my Father knew nothing at all.

8 Of all Men living, there is none I had rather meet than you, my Friend!

9. We often spoil a good Office, not only after we have conferred a Benefit, but in conferring it: