Wits, just like fools, at war about a name,
Have full as oft no meaning, or the same.
Self-love and Reason to one end aspire,
Pain their aversion, Pleasure their desire :
But greedy That, its object would devour,
This taste the honey, and not wound the flow'r :
Pleasure, or wrong, or rightly understood,
Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more; The rich is happy in the plenty giv❜n,

The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n.
See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing,
The sot a hero, lunatic a king;

The starving chymist in his golden views
Supremely blest, the poet in his muse.

See some strange comfort ev'ry state attend,
And pride bestow'd on all, a common friend;
See some fit passion ev'ry age supply,
Hope travels thro', nor quits us when we die.
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law,
Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw;
Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,
A little loude but as empty quite:
Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage,
And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of
age:
Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before;
Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays
Those painted clouds that beautify our days;
Each want of happiness by hope supply'd,
And each vacuity of sense by pride:
These build as fast as knowledge can destroy;
In folly's cup still laughs the bubble joy ;
One prospect lost, another still we gain;
And not a vanity is giv'n in vain ;

Ev'n mean self-love becomes, by force divine, The scale to measure others' wants by thine. See! and confess, one comfort still must rise: "Tis this, "Tho' man's a fool, yet GOD IS WISE.

Whether with Reason or with Instinct blest; Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best; To bliss alike by that direction tend,

And find the means proportioned to their end.
Say, where full Instinct is th' unerring guide,
What Pope or council can they need beside?
Reason, however able, cool at best,

Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays till we call, and then not often near;
But honest Instinct comes a volunteer.
Sure never to o'ershoot, but just to hit;
While still too wide or short is human wit;
Sure by quick Nature, happiness to gain,
Which heavier Reason labours at in vain.
This too, serves always, Reason never long:
One must go right, the other may go wrong.
See then the acting and comparing pow'rs
One in their nature, which are two in ours!
And Reason raise o'er Instinct as you can,
In this, 'tis God directs, in that 'tis Man.
Who taught the nations of the field and wood
To shun their poison, and to choose their food?
Prescient, the tides or tempests to withstand,
Build on the wave, or arch beneath the sand?
Who made the Spider parallels design,
Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line?
Who bid the Stork, Columbus like, explore
Heav'n's not his own, and worlds unknown before?
Who calls the council, states the certain day,
Whe forms the phalanx, and who points the way?

ADDITIONAL REMARKS.

OF SYNTAX.

SECTION I.

The third part of Grammar is called SYNTAX, which treats of the agreement and construction of words in a sentence.

A sentence is an assemblage of words, forming a complete

sense.

Sentences are of two kinds, simple and compound.

A simple sentence has in it but one subject, and one finite verb: as, "Life is short."

A compound sentence consists of two or more simple senfences, connected together: as, "Life is short, and art is long." "Idleness produces want, vice, and misery."

As sentences themselves are divided into simple and compound, so the members of sentences may be divided likewise into simple and compound members: for whole sentences, whether simple or compounded, may become members of other sentences, by means of some additional connexion; as in the following example: "The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel doth not know, my people do not consider." This sentence consists of two compounded members, each of which is subdivided into two simple members, which are properly called clauses.

There are three sorts of simple sentences; the explicative, or explaining; the interrogative, or asking; the imperative, or commanding.

An explicative sentence is, when a thing is said to be or not to be, to do or not to do, to suffer or not to suffer, in a direct manner: as, "I am; thou writest; Thomas is loved." If the sentence be negative, the adverb not is placed after the auxiliary, or after the verb itself when it has no auxiliary: as, "I did not touch him;" or, " I touched him not."

In an interrogative sentence, or when a question is asked, the nominative case follows the principal verb, or the aux

iliary as, "Was it he?" "Did Alexander conquer the Persians ?"

In an imperative sentence, when a thing is commanded to be, to do, to suffer, or not, the nominative case likewise follows the verb or the auxiliary: as, "Go, thou traitor!" "Do thou go: "Haste ye away:" unless the verb let be used; as, Let us be gone."

A phrase is two or more words rightly put together, making sometimes part of a sentence, and sometimes a whole sen

tence.

The principal parts of a simple sentence are, the subject, the attribute, and the object.

The subject is the thing chiefly spoken of; the attribute is the thing or action affirmed or denied of it; and the object is the thing affected by such action.

The nominative denotes the subject, and usually goes before the verb or attribute; and the word or phrase, denoting the object, follows the verb: as, "A wise man governs his pasHere, a wise man is the subject; governs, the attribute, or thing affirmed; and his passions, the object. Syntax principally consists of two parts, Concord and Go

sions."

vernment.

Concord is the agreement which one word has with another, in gender, number, case, or person.

Government is that power which one part of speech has over another, in directing its mood, tense, or case.

I shall now proceed to recapitulate all the rules, and give some illustrations, and notes under each, and then add exercises in false syntax, for you to correct and parse.

If you attend well to the illustrations, and the notes, you will be able to make the proper corrections, in all similar constructions.

RULE I.

Averb must agree with its nominative case in number and person.

The following are a few instances of the violation of this rule. "What signifies good opinions, when our practice is bad ?" "what signify." "There's two or three of us, who have seen the work :" "there are." "We may suppose there was more impostors than one ;" "there were more." "I have considered what have been said on both sides in this contro

versy:" "what has been said.” "If thou would be healthy, live temperately:" "if thou wouldst." "Thou sees how little has been done:" "thou seest." "Though thou cannot do much for the cause, thou may and should do something :" P

"canst not, mayst, and shouldst." "Full many a flower are born to blush unseen;"" is born." "A conformity of inclinations and qualities prepare us for friendship :" "prepares us." "A variety of blessings have been conferred upon us ;" "has been." "In piety and virtue consist the happiness of man;""consists.” "To these precepts are subjoined a copious selection of rules and maxims :" " is subjoined."

1. Every verb, except in the infinitive mood, or the parti ciple, ought to have a nominative case, either expressed or implied: as, "Awake; arise;" that is," Awake ye; arise ye."

I shall here add some examples of inaccuracy, in the use of the verb without its nominative case. "As it hath pleased him of his goodness to give you safe deliverance, and hath preserved you in the great danger," &c. The verb "hath preserved," has here no nominative case; for it cannot be properly supplied by the preceding word, " him," which is in the objective case. It ought to be," and as he hath preserved you;" or rather, " and to preserve you." "If the calm in which he was born, and lasted so long, had continued ;” “and which lasted," &c. "These we have extracted from an historian of undoubted credit, and are the same that were practised," &c.: " and they are the same." "A man whose inclinations led him to be corrupt, and had great abilities to manage the business ;"" and who had," &c. "A cloud gathering in the north; which we have helped to raise, and may quickly break in a storm upon our heads ;"" and which may quickly."

2. Every nominative case, except the case absolute, and when an address is made to a person, should belong to some verb, either expressed or implied: as, "Who wrote this book?" "James;" that is, "James wrote it." "To whom thus Adam," that is, "spoke." "Who invented the telescope?" "Galileo;" that is, "Galileo invented the telescope."

One or two instances of the improper use of the nominative case, without any verb, expressed or implied, to answer it, may be sufficient to illustrate the usefulness of the preceding observation.

"Which rule, if it had been observed, a neighbouring prince would have wanted a great deal of that incense, which hath been offered up to him." The pronoun it is here the nominative case to the verb "observed;" and which rule, is left by itself, a nominative case without any verb following it. 'This form of expression, though improper, is very common. It ought to be," If this rule had been observed," &c. "Man, though he has a great variety of thoughts, and such from which