4. Nothing in Life ought to be dearer to us than our Country.

5. How happy is Life, while I converse only with myself and my Books! O sweet and innocent Amusement, almost preferable to every kind of Amusement.

6. No Pleasure can be greater than the Pleasure of the Mind.

7. Nothing is more desirable, or more worthy a Man, than Wisdom: They, therefore, who court her, are termed Philosophers; for Philosophy implies nothing but the Love of Wisdom.

8. Nothing is more endearing than the Returns of Affection, and the Intercourse of Kindness and good Offices.

9. What can be more unjust than a Blockhead, who thinks nothing right, but what he does himself?

10. Nothing is more unjust than a tardy Friend. 11. Nothing is more detestable than Disgrace. 12. Nothing is more vile than Slavery. Born to Liberty and Honor, even Death is better than Slavery.

13. In a free State, nothing is more scandalous than a Desire to reign.

14. Nothing is more vile than Vanity.

15. Nothing is more inconsistent with the Gravity of a wise Man, than Error, Levity, and Rashness. 16. Money is generally held of more Value than Duty by those who are poor.

17. They are so rich, that if you make them a Present, the Favor is lighter than a Feather.

18. As in extreme Pain, Minutes seem longer than Days; so, in extreme Pleasure, Days seem swifter than Minutes.

19. He that, under the Pretence of Kindness, betrays his Neighbour, is worse than a Man who openly professes his Malice.

20. What am I better than the poorest Man who begs Alms, unless I be wiser than him, and more virtuous ?

21. A Man's good Name is a Thing he holds most precious, oftentimes dearer than his Life. 22. What Obligations can be greater than those that Children receive from their Parents?

23. What can be more excellent than the young Man, who can say to himself, (for it is not right to say it to others,) I have excelled my Father in Obligations? And what more happy than the old Man, who proclaims it every where, that he is so excelled?

24. None are more miserable than those, who are come to such a pass, as to make even Superfluities necessary. They do not enjoy Pleasures, who are Slaves to them; and there is no Hope of a Cure, where Vice is become a Habit.

25. No Pleasure is sweeter to ingenuous Minds than Liberty.

26. The Liberty of a State is dearer than Life; nor does he fall ingloriously, who dies fighting for his Country.

27. Glory obtained by excellent Actions is stronger than all Envy.

28. Facts are more stubborn Things than Words. 29. To get so much Wisdom, as to know the Difference between Good and Evil, and to understand how to behave a Man's self upon all Occasions, is more desirable than Treasures of Gold and Silver.

30. There is nothing more vile than a lazy Fétlow, that lives by cheating; who seldom, if he catches, is able to keep his Prey: but he is a valuable Man, who by honest Diligence getteth Wealth, which shall durably remain with him.

31. The meanest Fare, with the Love of him that invites, and with Agreement among the Guests, is much better than the most sumptuous Entertainment of him that hates us; or among those that quarrel and contend even then, when all Differences should be forgotten.

32. Of all gainful Professions, nothing is better, nothing more delightful, nothing more worthy a Man, even a Gentleman, than Agriculture.

33. Than a well improved Field, nothing can be more profitable for Use, or more beautiful in Shew; and old Age is so far from debarring us from, that it invites us to rural Enjoyments.

34. The Duties of Justice are to be preferred to the Studies and Duties of Knowledge; because they belong to the Welfare and Love of the human Race, than which nothing ought to be dearer to Mankind.

35. Of all the Things, which Wisdom has provided for a happy Life, none is more powerful, none more profitable, and none more delectable, than Friendship.

36. Nature, or rather God, hath given us a Soul, than which nothing is more excellent, nothing more divine.

Tanto, quanto, &c.

THESE Ablatives, tanto, quanto, hoe, eo, and quo, with some others, which signify the De

gree of Excess; also the Ablatives, ætate and natu, are joined with Adjectives of the Comparative and Superlative Degree.

Note. The Comparative may have any Ablative Case after it; but the Superlative admits only these three, tanto, quanto, multo: the Sign by, which is sometimes expressed in English, but oftener understood.

1. By how much the more and greater Things a Man hath done beyond his State and Condition, so much the more admirable is he esteemed among all Men.

2. They direct us well, who advise, that the greater we are, to behave ourselves the more submissively.

3. It is a great Atchievement to gain a Kingdom; but a much greater to keep it.

4. It is much easier to contend with any Thing, than with Hunger.

5. The more we struggle with our Necessities, we draw the Knot the harder, and the worse it is with us: and the more the Bird flaps and flutters in the Snare, the surer she is caught so that the best way is to submit.

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6. The Benefit is never the greater for the making a Bustle and Noise about it; but the Benefactor is much the less for the Ostentation of his good Deeds.

7. Men will think, that he is no better Physician than the rest, who has no better Success in his Cures.

8. The more difficult any Thing is, the more ho

norable.

9. The longer my Friend is absent, so much the more I desire to see bim.

10. It is vile to speak one Thing and think another; but how much the viler is it, to write one Thing and think another !

11. He that will dare to tell a Lye, and deceive his Father, by so much the more will he deceive others.

12. When we have no Opinion of a Man's Probity, the more cunning and crafty he seems, the more he is hated and suspected.

13. Praise is nothing but a little Air, a Blast, the Breath of Man: it brings nothing of real Advantage; for I am made never the wiser, nor the better, for a Man's saying I am wise and good.

14. It is not for a prudent Man to grow proud upon any Success of Fortune, since he is never the greater for it.

15. The Mind is ever in Motion, and by how much the more vehement, by so much the more lively and active: Happy is the Man, that applies this Impulse to good Things.

16. As a State cannot be happy amidst civil Broils, nor a House amidst the Dissentions of the Masters; far less can the Mind, if at Variance with itself, taste the least Particle of pure and unconfined Pleasure,

17. If the Pleasure of Life be interrupted by the afflicting Pains of the Body, how much more, shall it be interrupted by the Diseases of the Mind!

18. If Pleasure, which has so many Advocates, is not however to be ranked among good Things; and if the greater it is, the more it discomposes and disorders the Mind; surely to live well and happily, is nothing more than to lead a virtuous and sober Life.