By this course of conduct, you certainly render yourself worthy of the protection of the magistrate; although whether you thereby constitute yourself a flat or not, is perhaps a doubtful question. Much may be said on both sides. Dishonesty, it is true, may lead to being taken up; but then honesty often leads to being taken in. Yet honesty is said to be the best policy. Policy is a branch of wisdom, and “wisdom” they say “is in the wig.” Certain wigs are retained at the head—of affairs, by a good deal of policy; perhaps the best they could adopt—a fact that throws considerable doubt on the truth of the old maxim.
Impersonal verbs which are put acquisitively, require a dative case; but those which are put transitively an accusative, as—
A ministris nobis benefit:
We enjoy blessings from Ministers.
For instance—No—We cannot think of any just at present.
Me juvat per lunam errare, et “Isabellam” cantare:
I like to wander by moonlight, and sing “Isabelle.”
The connexion between love and moonlight is as interesting as it is certain. We shrewdly suspect that the said planet has more to do with the tender passion than lovers are aware of.
But the preposition ad is peculiarly added to these verbs—attinet, it belongs, pertinet, it pertains, spectat, it concerns, as
Spectat ad omnes bene vivere: