have such of us: the former is contrary to Pride, the latter to Vain-Glory.

2. He that contends where he cannot but be overcome, is not unlike the Viper that bit the File, 3. Nothing is so contrary to Reason and Constancy as Fortune.

4. Nothing ought to be strange to a wise Man, but what is joined with Vice.

5. Is there any Doubt, but that Injury is contrary to Kindness? As then to do an Injury is a Thing to be avoided in itself, so Kindness is for itself to be practised.

PLEASURE, &c..

1. Piety is acceptable to God.

2. It is not the Incense, or the Offering, that is acceptable to God, but the Purity and Devotion of the Worshipper.

3. He that loves a Person, is desirous to approve himself to him, and to do whatsoever he thinks will be pleasing to him.

4. He that is full, loathes an Honey-Comb; but to the hungry, the most bitter Thing is sweet,

5. How savory is a Piece of Bread to one who is hungry; and how delicious is Water to him who is thirsty!

6. Learn to distinguish what Nature hath made necessary, and what is superfluous; what easy Laws she hath enacted; and how grateful and pleasant Life may be to those who obey them; but how severe and intricate to those, who rather trust to Opinion than to Nature.

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DISPLEASURE, &c.

1. When Men have within themselves no Resources for making Life virtuous and happy, to such Men every Age of Life is disagreeable: but to those who require from themselves all that is good, nothing can seem an Evil, which the Necessity of Nature brings with it.

2. Exile is terrible to those, who, as it were, stint themselves to one Dwelling Place; but not to those, who look upon the whole Globe as one City.

3. It is painful to a modest and generous Mind, to solicit any great Thing from one whom he thinks he has greatly obliged; lest he should seem to claim, rather than ask it, and it should be reckoned rather a Debt than a Favor.

SUBMISSION.

1. Nothing is more commendable than for young Persons to be submissive to their Parents. 2. I have long observed his Behaviour in Life, and in all his Actions I have found him submissive to you.

3. It is a Sign of Repentance in the Offender, when he is supplicant to the Person offended.

4. Humanity is a Virtue, which forbids a Man to be proud among his Companions: she sheweth herself gentle and condescending to all; judgeth not ill of any one; and her own chief Good is to promote the Good of others.

RESISTANCE.

1. Children that are refractory, and contuma cious to their Parents, shall be cut off from the Land of the Living...

2. They, who are disobedient to the Voice of the Lord, shall perish..

RELATION, or belonging to any Thing.]

1. So great is the Power of Virtue, that though we only see it in others, it moves us, and makes us friendly to the Person that seems to be possessed

of it.

2. Anger is next a-kin to Cruelty.

3. All Art will recede from natural Simplicity, so near a-kin is it to Deceit

4. To healthful Bodies the plainest Meats are generally the most wholesome. A

5. The covetous Man is unjust to his Body, for he often denies it the most necessary Refreshment. 6. Bad Manners are contagious as well as Dis➡ eases; and the Mind is at least as much, if not more liable to Infection, than the Body.

7. Recreations are sometimes necessary, both to the Body and Mind of Man, as neither of them is able to endure a constant Toil without some Refreshment between.

8. He that conceives in his Mind some arduous Task, ought first to ask of Heaven Strength equal thereto..

9. People, generally speaking, are kind to their Neighbours for their own sakes.

10. It is honorable for a Man to cease from Strife, but every Fool will be meddling.

11. Nothing but Moderation and Greatness of, Mind can make either a prosperous or adverse Fortune easy to us.

12. He that is perfectly wise is perfectly happy: nay, the very Beginning of Wisdom makes Life easy to us.

Huc referuntur Nomina ex con, &c.

TO this Rule belong also Nouns compounded of the Preposition con; as, conservus, cognatus, commilito, &c.

1. I could not endure his Insolence, as he was but my Fellow-Servant to the same Master.

2. It was his Custom to adapt Nick-Names to Things.

3. He was my Fellow-Soldier in Greece, and my Comrade in Italy.

4. He was conscious to himself of the Crime, though he denied it.

5. Nothing can make a Man happier, than a Mind conscious to itself of its own Integrity.

Quædam ex his, &c.

SOME of these Adjectives, that signify Likeness, Unlikeness, or Relation to, may have a Genitive Case after them.

1. We must take particular Care whom we imitate, and whom we wish to be like.

2. May he be happy, and not degenerate from his Ancestors. ⠀

3. He was very unlike you, though ye were bred together.

4. Great Wits are allied to Madmen.

5. You mistake the Person: he whom you fear was like this Man.

6. He that regards not the Instruction of his Father or Tutor, or other Superior, whose Love is equal to his Authority, will always be a Fool.

Communis, alienus, inmunis, &c. EACH of these three Adjectives govern several Cases,

I. Communis.

With a Genitive.

f. Every body can tell you, that Calamities are common to all Mankind.

2. Death is common to all living Creatures..

3. Even so it is with all worldly Things: their Spring comes, and they are put forth; then blows the Wind, and they go down and in their Place grow up others like unto them: so that to endure but for a while only, is common to all.

4. It is an old Proverb; All Things are common among Friends.

With a Dative...

1. Universal Experience shews, that Death is common to all Ages. As

2. We are not to condemn any Thing that is common to a Nation; for Custom defends it.