The familiarity of our transatlantic friends with the nature of the electric fluid, is no doubt owing to the discoveries of their countryman Franklin. Q. Was the lightning which that philosopher drew down from the clouds, of the kind mentioned in the example?
Communis, common; alienus, strange; immunis, free, are joined to a genitive, dative, and also to an ablative case, with a preposition, as
Aures longæ communes asinorum sunt:
Long ears are common to asses.
Though musical ears are not. We even doubt whether they would have the slightest admiration for Bray-ham.
Non sunt communes caudæ hominibus:
Tails are not common to men.
Except coat-tails, shirt-tails, pig-tails, and rats’-tails—to which en-tails may perhaps also be added, though these last are often cut off.
Non alienus a poculo cerevisiæ:
Not averse to a pot of beer.