32. With Intention of; As

"And by that justice haft remov'd the Caufe
"Of thofe rude tempefts, which, FOR rapine fent,
"Too oft alas involv'd the innocent."

[i. e. Rapine the Cause of their being sent.]

66 33. Becoming, Belonging to; As

"It were not FOR your quiet, nor your good,
"Nor FOR my manhood, honesty and wisdom,
"To let you know my thoughts."

[i. e. Your quiet is a Caufe, your good is a Cause, my manhood, my honesty, my wisdom, each is a Cause, why it is not fit or proper to let you know my thoughts.]

34. Notwithstanding; As-Probability fuppofes that a "thing may, or may not be fo, FOR any thing that yet is "certainly determined on either fide." [i. e. Any thing yet determined being the Cause of concluding.]

66 35. FOR ALL.

Notwithstanding; As-FOR ALL his "exact plot, down was he cast from all bis greatness." [i. e. His exact plot being, all of it, a Caufe to expect otherwife; yet he was caft down.]

"36. To the Ufe of, to be used in; As—

"The Oak FÒR nothing ill;

"The Ofier good FOR twigs; the Poplar FOR the Mill."

[i. c. Not any thing the Cause why the oak fhould be pronounced bad; Twigs the Cause why the ofier should be called good; the Mill the Cause why the poplar should be esteemed useful.]

66 37. In confequence of; AS-FOR love they force "through thickets of the wood." [i. e. Love the Cause ]

"38. In recompense of; As—

"Now FOR fo many glorious actions done

"FOR peace at home, and FOR the public wealth,
"I mean to crown a bowl to Cafar's health:

"Befides in gratitude FOR fuch high matters,

"Know I have vow'd two hundred Gladiators."

[i. e. I mean to crown a bowl to Cæfar's health, the Cause —so many glorious actions; the Cause-peace at home; -fo the Cause the public weal. Besides, I have in gratitude vowed two hundred gladiators, fuch high matters being the Cause of my gratitude.]

39. In proportion to; As-He is not very tall, yet FOR his years he's tall." [i. e. His years the Caufe why he may be esteemed tall.]

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"40. By means of; by interpofition of; As-Moral confiderations can no way move the fenfible appetite, were “it not FOR the will." [i. e. Were not the will the Cause.]

"41. In regard of; in prefervation of; As-I cannot ແ FOR my life." [i. e. My life being the Caufe; or, To fave my life being the Caufe why I fhould do it: i. e. though my life were at stake.]

42. For to: As-I come FOR to see you." [i. e. Ta see you being the Cause of my coming.]

"A large pofterity

Up to your happy palaces may mount,

"Of blessed faints FOR to increase the count:"

[i. e. To increase the number being the Caufe of their mounting.]

FOR. Conjunction *; As

Heav'n

* So the French correfpondent Conjunction CAR (by old French authors written Qubar) is no other than Qua re, or, Que (i. e. Ka) ed re.

"Qu and c, (fays Laurenbergius) communionem habuere apud antiquos,. μ ut Arquus, oquulus, pro arcus, oculus. Prifc. Viciffim anticus, eculus,; pro antiquus, equulus, antiqui libri. Cum & quum, cui & qui, Terentius "Andriâ :

"Heav'n doth with us as we with torches deal,

"Not light them FOR themselves: FOR if our virtues
"Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike

"As if we had them not."

[i. e. Themselves not being the Cause of lighting them. If our virtues did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike as if we had them not: That is the Cause why heaven doth deal with us, as we deal with torches.]

"Andriâ: Qui mihi expurgandus eft, pro cui: annotat Donatus. Querquera febris, Lucilius: Quercera, Gellius lib. 20. Cotidie, non Quotidie, fcri❝ bunt Quintil. & Victorinus. Stercilinium, pro fterquilinio, habent libri "veteres Catonis de R. R. & Terentius Phormione: Infece & Infeque. « Ennius, Livius, Cato: ut difputat Gellius lib. 18. cap. 19. Hujufce, & bujufque, promifcue olim fcribebant. Hinc Fortuna bujufce diei, apud "Plinium, lib. 34. &, Fortuna bujufque diei, apud Ciceronem, lib. 2. de legibus. Et Victor de regionibus urbis: VICUS. HUJUSQUE. DIEI. FORT. AD. Lex vetus ædificii: DIES OPERIS K. NOVEMB. PRIMEIS DIES PEQVVN. <c PARS DIMIDIA DABITUR VBI PRÆDIA SATIS SUBSIGNATA ERUNT. ALTERA PARS DIMIDIA SOLVETUR OPERE PERFECTO PROBATO QUE.”

Of which innumerable other inftances might also be given. And the Latins in cutting off the E at the end of Que, only followed the example of the Greeks, who did the fame by Ka (as fhould have been mentioned before in the note to page 92). Thus in Sappho's ode to Venus,

"2. Because; on this account that; As-I doubt not "but great troops would be ready to run; yet FOR that the "worst men are most ready to move,

I would wish them

[i. e.

[i. e. The worst That is the Cause why

I would wish them (not the worst men, but the troops) chofen by difcretion of wife men.

66 3. For as much. In regard that; in confideration of; "As-FoR as much as the thirst is intolerable, the patient "may be indulged the free ufe of Spaw water." [i. e. As much as the thirst is intolerable, is the Cause why the patient may be indulged.]

4. FOR WHY. Because; For this reason that; As, "Solyman had three hundred field pieces, that a Camel

might well carry one of them, being taken from the car"riage: FOR WHY, Solyman purpofing to draw the emperor "unto battle, had brought no greater pieces of battery with "bim." [i. e. the Cause, that.]

B.

FOR, is not yet your own, however hard you have fruggled for it: for, befides Greenwood and S. Johnfon, you have still three others to contend with. Wilkins

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