Could he be better conducted in his Way to Wealth, which is the great Article of Life, than in a Treatise dated from Change-Alley by an able Proficient there?

Your pupil is, you see, an apt proficient. (ironically)

Before he was twenty Years of Age, having finished his Studies and Exercises with great Applause, he was removed from the University to the Inns of Court, where there are very few that make themselves considerable Proficients in the Studies of the Place, who know they shall arrive at great Estates without them.

The elder Proficients employ themselves in inspecting mores hominum multorum, in getting acquainted with all the Signs and Windows in the Town.

Yet he was greatly cautious over his heart, lest it should be too fondly attached to them; and as he was one of the most eminent proficients I ever knew in the blessed science of resignation to the divine will, so there was no effect of that resignation which appeared to me more admirable than what related to the life of his children.

One of the volumes of Swift's Miscellanies consists almost entirely of Letters between the Dean and the Dr. FOOTNOTES: Not a first rate genius, or extraordinary proficient, in either.

He is a great painter, but a suspicious narrator; a grand proficient in the picturesque, but a very poor professor of the historic.

You are grown a notable Proficient in LoveAnd you are resolv'd (if he please) to marry him? Cel.