3. It is common to all, but such as are of the vilest Disposition, to love their Country.

A Dative with an Ablative and the Preposition cum.

1. It is not agreeable to Reason, to think highly of ourselves for such Things as are common to us with Beasts and Plants.

2. I will bear manfully those Dangers, which are common to me with the rest of Mankind.

3. They conspire together, and display their Villanies in common to one another.

Note. When two Persons' or Things follow the Adjective with the Conjunctive and between them; and must not be rendered in Latin by et, but by the Preposition cum, with an Ablative Case.

1. To move and breathe, to sleep and wake, to hunger and thirst, to live and die, are Things common to Princes and Peasants.

2. A sudden Death is equally common to good and bad therefore it is horrible indeed to die ill, but not to die suddenly.

3. Perfect Reason is the proper Good of Man: other Things are common to him and brute Animals. Is he strong? So are Lions. Is he beautiful? So is the Peacock. Is he swift? So are Horses.,

II. Alienus.

With a Genitive Case.

1. A frank Nature is not fit for Secrets.

2. He told us a long Story, but it was wide of Truth

With a Dative Case.

1. We are apt to spend our Time in the Pursuit of Things, that are wholly foreign to our Business.

2. The Kindred generally of a poor Man, not only forsake him, but hate his Company, as a Disgrace and Trouble to them; and therefore no Wonder if his Companions and Familiars grow strange to him.

3. I know how averse you are to Ambition, who delight so much in Study and Retirement.

With an Ablative Case.

1. It is not consistent with the Dignity of a Judge, when he is about to pronounce Sentence, to shew any Signs of Anger in his Look, Words, or Gesture.

2. We must take care that what we say be not petulant, nor proud, nor unsuitable in Time or Place.

3. Injustice may be done two Ways; by Fraud or Force Fraud is the Property of a Fox, and Force of a Lion: both very unbecoming of a Man; but Fraud is the more detestable.

And with the Preposition à, or ab.

1. With a Man who is disaffected to me, my Letters will do no Good.

2. Have you so much Leisure from your own Business, as to take care of other Men's Affairs, and such as do not at all concern you? I am a Man, and therefore think no Office of Humanity not pertaining to me.

3. Our Manner of joking should neither be profuse nor indecent, but genteel and facetious: for as we allow Boys no other Liberty of playing, but what is consistent with genteel Behaviour so in our very Jokes, somewhat of a generous Disposition ought to be displayed.

4. It is not agreeable to that Justice, for which we seem to be born, to take any Thing from another, which is his Property.

5. It behovés Man not to be averse to Man, on this very Account, because he is a Man.

1. Let those who have offended be afraid? a Conscience free from Guilt can laugh at false Ac

cusers.

2. Happy is the City that enjoys Tranquillity, without being involved in so great a War.

With an Ablative Case.

1. So general was the Report, that no one throughout the Nation was free from Fear.

2. He so well ordered the Retreats that his whole Army met with no Misfortune.

And a Preposition.

1. He but aukwardly objects a Vice to another, from which himself is not free.

2. In the Grave there is no Distinction; but the Servant is free from the Power of his Master.

3. No one is so happy as to live always free from Misfortunes.

4. Children, when they are once grown up, are apt to think themselves free from all Obedience to their Parents: but their Duty is still the same, and in many Cases, they ought to be as much under Command now as before.

Natus, commodus, incommodus, &c.

THESE seven Adjectives, natus, commodus, incommodus, utilis, inutilis, vehemens, aptus, with several others, as promptus, proclivis, segnis, rudis, &c. govern an Accusative Case, with the Preposition ad (or in): which Accusative Case signifies the End, Purpose, or Use, to or for which any thing is made, born, fit, or unfit: as in the Example given, (Natus ad Gloriam, he was born to Glory,) Glory is the Accident, or End, to which such a one is born.

1. When we begin to look about, and consider who we are, and wherein we differ from brute Animals, we shall begin to pursue those Things for which we were born.

2. Every one is not made to govern States, to distribute Justice, to resolve great Doubts, and to. end Controversies.

3. There is implanted in us a certain Desire of Knowledge; and we are born for Society and the Communion of Mankind.

4. Man being made to do good to others; when he doeth good to any one, he doeth that for which he was born; and therefore can require no more.

5. The Mind attains not Virtue but by Instruction and continual Exercise: to this indeed we are born; and in the best of Men, without Study and Application, there is the Ground of Virtue, but not Virtue itself.

6. Money, like Dung, is good for nothing except it be spread.

7. It is enough for such a little Creature as Man, to be good for one Thing.

8. A Member unprofitable to the Commonwealth, is more worthy to be cut off than preserved.

9. He that uses himself only to Books, is fit for nothing but a Book: and he that converseth with Nobody, is fit to converse with Nobody.

10. The Wit of Man, if properly exercised, is accommodated to the best Things; but if it degenerates into Vice, it is far below the dumb Beasts.

11. Nothing is so agreeable to the Nature of Man as Friendship: nothing so fitted for a State. of Prosperity or Adversity.

12. Nothing is more conducive to true Felicity, than to love Virtue for itself, and for itself to hate Vice.

18. It is true, he did amiss, but I did not think

the Cause strong enough for Rebuke, or Chastise

ment.

14. How prone are we to Anger, and how slow to Love!