RESISTANCE.

1. Children that are refractory, and contumacious to their Parents, fhall be cut off from the Land of the Living.

2. They who are difobedient to the Voice of the Lord fhall perish.

RELATION, or belonging to any Thing.

1. So great is the Power of Virtue, that though we only fee it in others, it moves us, and makes us friendly to the Perfon that feems to be poffeffed of it.

2. Anger is next Kind to Cruelty.

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

4. To healthful Bodies the plaineft Meats are generally the most wholesome.

5. The covetous Man is unjust to his Body, for he often denies it the moft neceffary Refreshment.

6. Bad Manners are contagious as well as Difeafes; and the Mind is at least as much, if not more, liable to Infection than the Body.

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

8. He that conceives in his Mind some arduous Tafk, ought firft to afk of Heaven Strength equal thereto.

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

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10. It is honourable 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 profperous or adverfe Fortune eafy to us.

12. He that is perfectly wife is perfectly happy; nay, the very Beginning of Wifdom makes Life eafy to us.

Huc referuntur Nomina ex con, &c.

O this Rule belong alfo Nouns compounded of the Prepofition con; as, confervus, cognatus, commilito, &c.

1. I could not endure his Infolence, as he was but my Fellow-Servant to the fame Mafter.

2. It was his Cuftom to adapt Nicknames to Things.

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

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

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

Quædam ex his, &c.

SOME of thefe Adjectives, that fignify Likenefs, Unlikeness, or Relation to, may have a Genitive Cafe 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 Perfon; he whom you fear was like this Man..

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

Communis, alienus, immunis, &c.. FACH of these three Adjectives govern several Gafes..

I Communis..

With a Genitive.

r. Every Body can tell you, that Calamities are common to all Mankind.

2. Death is common to all living Creatures.

3. Even fo 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 thenr: 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 Datives

1. Univerfal Experience fhews, that Death is common to all Ages..

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

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It is common to all, but fuch as are of the vileft Difpofition, to love their Country.

A Dative, with an Ablative and the Prepofition cum.

1. It is not agreeable to Reafon, to think highly of ourselves for fuch Things as are common to us with Beafts and Plants.

2. I will bear manfully thofe Dangers which are common to me with the refi of Mankind.

3. They confpire together, and difplay their Villainies in common to one another.

Note, When two Perfons or Things follow the Adjective, with the Conjunction and between them; and must not be rendered in Latin by et, but by the Prepofition cum, with an Ablative Cafe.

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

2. A fudden Death is equally common to Good and Bad. Therefore it is horrible indeed to die ill, but not to die fuddenly.

3. Perfect Reafon is the proper Good of Man; other Things are common to him and brute Animals; Is he ftrong? So are Lions; Is he beautiful? So is the Peacock; Is he fwift? So are Horfes.

II. Alienus.

With a Genitive Cafe.

1. A frank Nature is not fit for fecrets.

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

With a Dative.

1. We are apt to spend our Time in the Purfuit of Things that are wholly foreign to our Business.2. The Kindred generally of a poor Man, not only forfake him; but hate his Company, as a Difgrace 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 fo much in Study and Retirement.

With an Ablative Cafe.

r. It is not confiftent with the Dignity of a Judge, when he is about to pronounce Sentence, to fhew any Signs of Anger in his Looks, Words, or Gef

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2. We must take Care that what we fay be not petulant, nor proud, nor unfuitable in Time or

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3. Injuftice 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 deteftable.

And with the Prepofition A, or Ab.

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

2. Have