2. What Labor is vain and frivolous? That which is laid out in Trifles."

3. To what may we compare the Life of Man ? To a Game at Chess.

4. What makes us relish Health? Sickness. What enhanceth the Value of Plenty? The Experience of Want.

5. What is a Benefit? A voluntary and kind Action, that gives Delight, and in giving it, receives the same itself: It consists therefore not in the Thing given, but in the Intention of the Giver.

6. It is a great Part of Goodness to desire to be good: Do you know whom I call good? One that is perfect, absolute; whom no Force, no Necessity can induce to do a bad Thing.

2. Of the same Tense.

1. What will you do, if you are called upon to serve your Country? Behave myself manfully.

2. Hearing your Father reviled, what will you do? Vindicate my Father's Honor.

3. How does my Friend do, having lost his Son? He is in great Grief, but comforts himself in some measure with this Reflection,-that he died honorably.

EXCEPTIONS.

I. From the Question being asked by cujus, cuja, cujum, whose; when the Answer is put in the Genitive Case.

1. Did he say, she was his own Daughter? No. Whose then? His Brother's.

2. Whose Son was that you brought hither to play with you? My Master's.

II. From the Verb requiring another Case.

1. Was he accused of Bribery, or of Conspiracy? Of neither. (Abl.)

2. Did you sell your Horse for Twenty Pounds? For more, or perhaps less: I am not obliged to tell

you.

III. From the Question being answered by a Pronoun Possessive, meus, tuus, &c. when the Answer agrees with the Interrogative.

1. Whose Company do you love above any? Thine.

2. Whose Servant was he, you parted from just now? My own.

Construction of Adjectives governing a Dative Case.

Adjectiva, quibus commodum, &c.

Adjectives signifying Advantage, Fitness, Suitableness; and the Contraries, Disadvantage, Unfitness, Unsuitableness; L keness, or Unlikeness; Pleasure, or Displeasure; Submission, or Resistance; or that have any Manner of Relation to a Thing, require a Dative Case. The Sign to, or for.

ADVANTAGE, &c.

1. He that has a Heart to be kind and bountiful to his Neighbour, will not deny what is fit and convenient to himself: whereas the covetous Man pinches his own Flesh.

2. It is much more for the Child's Good, that his Parents should choose for him, than he be left to the silly Choice, he would make for himself.

3. When a Father sees a Child disobedient and stubborn, what can be more agreeable to fatherly Affection, than to chasten and correct him, if by this means he may amend him?

4. Men may be happy in all Places, if their Mind be but suited to their Condition.

5. The Morning is the Time convenient for Study.

6. God best knows what is good for us, and

what not.

7. It is a Pleasure to lead a Life equal and agreeable to one's Words; and so to live, that every Speech may agree with one's Morals.

8. The Life of the retired indeed is more easy and more safe; but the Life of those that apply themselves to the Affairs of Government, is more beneficial to Mankind, and more conducive to Glory and Renown.

DISADVANTAGE.

1. You judge wrong of yourself, if you seem of no Use but to the Afflicted: a Man may shew himself of service to his Friend under all Circumstances of Life.

2. Meekness restrains that mad Passion of Anger, which is not only uneasy to ourselves, but oftentimes very detrimental to our Neighbour."

3. The same Labor is not equally grievous to a General and a'common Soldier; for in the Case of a General, Honour makes the Toil easy.

4. I shall be glad to see you at my House tomorrow, if it be not inconvenient for you.

5. An ungrateful Man is his own Enemy.

6. As Nature or Providence hath given to Man nothing more valuable than his own Soul; nothing is so destructive as Pleasure to that divine inestimable Gift.

7. Pleasure embarrasseth Deliberation, is an Enemy to Reason, and hoodwinks the Mind: it keeps her from having any Communication with Virtue.

8. Old Age, in great Poverty, cannot indeed be light even to a wise Man; nor in the greatest Plenty not burthensome to a Fool.

9. Cruelty is very disagreeable to the Nature of Man.

10. An envious Man is as useless to a State, as Cockle among the Wheat, or a Coward in War.

LIKENESS, &C.

1. How like Friendship is Flattery! It not only imitates, but it outdoes it: it is received with open Ears, and is then most grateful, when most hurtful.

2. The Life of Man is like a Game at Tables: the Chance is not in our Power, but to play it well is.

3. Forsake not. an old Friend; for a new one

is not like him: A Friend is like Wine, the better and more pleasant for being old.

4. The Life of Man is like Iron: if you use it, it wears away; if you use it not, the Rust consumes it.

5. Fame is like a River, that beareth up Things light and swolen, and drowns Things weighty and solid.

6. When a Quarrel is once broken out, 'tis like a violent Flame, which cannot so soon be quenched, as it might have been, whilst it was only a smothering Fire.

7. Nature hath ordered Man, not to think any thing more beautiful than Man: for so great is the Force of Nature, that Man desires to be like Man, as an Ant to an Aut.

8. He that speaks the Truth, being always conformable to himself, can never be disproved; but a Liar is soon confuted? for he is apt to contradict himself.

9. Nothing is more like a Madman, than one who is drunk.

10. He was a great deal more like his Mother, than his Father.

11. The Sickness of the Mind is most like sick Bodies.

12. I compare not the Man, that does these Things, with the best of Men; but I think him most like God.

UNLIKENESS.

1. There are two Sorts of Humility: one consists in the having a mean Opinion of ourselves; and another in being content that others should