theirs which I have elsewhere refuted. (See Obs. 3rd on Rule 5th.) These two verbs take the infinitive after them without the preposition, only when they are intransitive; while all the rest seem to have this power, only when they are transitive. If there are any exceptions, they shall presently be considered. A more particular examination of the construction proper for the infinitive after each of these eight verbs, seems necessary for a right understanding of the rule. OBS. 6.—Of the verb BID. This verb, in any of its tenses, when it commands an action, usually governs an object and also an infinitive, which come together; as, "Thou bidst the world adore." -Thomson. "If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing."-2 Kings, v, 13. But when it means, to promise or offer, the infinitive that follows, must be introduced by the preposition to; as, "He bids fair to excel them all."-" Perhaps no person under heaven bids more unlikely to be saved."-Brown's Divinity, p. vii. "And each bade high to win him."-GRANVILLE: Joh. Dict. After the compound forbid, the preposition is also necessary; as, "Where honeysuckles forbid the san to enter."-Beauties of Shak., p. 57. In poetry, if the measure happens to require it, the word to is sometimes allowed after the simple verb bid, denoting a command; as, "Bid me to strike my dearest brother dead, To bring my aged father's hoary head."-Rowe's Lucan, B. i, 1. 677. "Like one But when we OBS. 7. Of the verb DARE. This verb, when used intransitively, and its irregular preterit durst, which is never transitive, usually take the infinitive after them without to; as, "I dare do all that may become a man: Who dares do more, is none."-Shakspeare. "If he durst steal any thing adventurously."-Id "Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms."-Milton. who durst his destiny control."-Dryden. In these examples, the former verbs have some resemblance to auxiliaries, and the insertion of the preposition to would be improper. take away this resemblance, by giving dare or dared an objective case, the preposition is requisite before the infinitive; as, "Time! I dare thee to discover Such a youth or such a lover."-Dryden. "He dares me to enter the lists."-Fisk's Gram., p. 125. So when dare itself is in the infinitive mood, or is put after an auxiliary, the preposition is not improper; as, "And let a private man dare to say that it will."-Brown's Estimate, ii, 147. "Would its compiler dare to affront the Deity?"-West's Letters, p. 151. "What power so great, to dare to disobey?"-Pope's Homer. "Some would even dare to die."-Bible. "What would dare to molest him?"-Dr. Johnson. "Do you dare to prosecute such a creature as Vaughan ?"—Junius, Let. xxxiii. Perhaps these examples might be considered good English, either with or without the to; but the last one would be still better thus: " Dare you prosecute such a creature as Vaughan ?" Dr. Priestley thinks the following sentence would have been better with the preposition inserted: Who have dared defy the worst."-HARRIS: Priestley's Gram., p. 132. T is sometimes used after the simple verb, in the present tense; as, "Those whose words no ono dares to repeat."-Opie, on Lying, p. 147. "Dare I to leave of humble prose the shore?"-Young, p. 377. "Against heaven's endless mercies pour'd, how dar'st thou to rebel ?"-Id., p. 380. “The man who dares to bo a wretch, deserves still greater pain.”—Id., p. 381. Ons. 8.-Of the verb FEEL. This verb, in any of its tenses, may govern the infinitive without the sign to; but it does this, only when it is used transitively, and that in regard to a bodily perception: as, "I feel it move."—"I felt something sting me." If we speak of feeling any mental affection, or if we use the verb intransitively, the infinitive that follows, requires the preposition ; as, "I feel it to be my duty."-"I felt ashamed to ask."-"I feel afraid to go alone."-"I felt about, to find the door." One may say of what is painful to the body, "I feel it to be severe." OBS. 9.-Of the verb HEAR. This verb is often intransitive, but it is usually followed by an objective case when it governs the infinitive; as, "To hear a bird sing."-Webster. "You have never heard me say so.' For this reason, I am inclined to think that those sentences in which it appears to govern the infinitive alone, are elliptical; as, "I have heard tell of such things.""And I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it."—Gen, xli, 15. Such examples may be the same as, "I have heard people tell,”—“I have heard men say,” &c. OBS. 10. Of the verb LET. By many grammarians, this verb has been erroneously called an auxiliary of the imperative mood; or, as Dr. Johnson terms it, "a sign of the optative mood;" though none deny, that it is sometimes also a principal verb. It is, in fact, always a principal verb; because, as we now apply it, it is always transitive. It commonly governs an objective noun or pronoun, and also an infinitive without the sign to; as, "Rise up, let us go."—Mark. "Thou shalt let it rest."-Exodus. But sometimes the infinitive coalesces with it more nearly than the objective, so that the latter is placed after both verbs; as, "The solution le's go the mercury." -Newton. "One lets slip out of his account a good part of that duration."—Locke. "Back! on your lives; let be, said he, my prey."-Dryden. The phrase, let go, is sometimes spoken for, let go your hold; and let be, for let him be, let it be, &c. In such instances, therefore, the verb let is not really intransitive. This verb, even in the passive form, may have the infinitive after it without the preposition to; as, "Nothing is let slip."-Walker's English Particles, p. 165. "They were let go in peace."-dets, xv, 33. "The stage was never empty, nor the curtain let fall."-Blair's Rhet., p. 459. "The pye's question was wisely let fall without a reply."-L'Estrange. With respect to other passives, Murray and Fisk appear to be right; and sometimes the preposition is used after this one: as, "There's a letter for you, sir, if your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is."-Shakspeare. Let, when used intransitively, required the preposition to before the following infinitive; as, "He would not let [i. e. forbear] to counsel the king."-Bacon. But this use of let is now obsolete. OBS. 11.-Of the verb MAKE. This verb, like most of the others, never immediately governs an infinitive, unless it also governs a noun or a pronoun which is the immediate subject of such infinitive; as, "You make me blush."-"This only made the youngster laugh."-Webster's SpellingBook. "Which soon made the young chap hasten down."-1b. But in very many instances it is quite proper to insert the preposition where this verb is transitive; as, "He maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.”—Mark, vii, 37. "He makes the excellency of a sentence to consist in four things."-Blair's Rhet., p. 122; Jamieson's, 124. "It is this that makes the observance of the dramatic unities to be of consequence."-Blair's Rhet., p. 464. "In making some tenses of the English verb to consist of principal and auxiliary."-Murray's Gram., p. 76. When make is intransitive, it has some qualifying word after it, besides the sign of the infinitive; as, "I think he will make out to pay his debts." Formerly, the preposition to was almost always inserted to govern the infinitive after make or male; as, "Lest I make my brother to offend."—1 Cor., viii, 13. "He made many to fall."-Jer., xlvi, 16. Yet, in the following text, it is omitted, even where the verb is meant to be passive: And it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man."-Dan., vii, 4. This construction is improper, and not free from ambiguity; because stand may be a noun, and made, an active verb governing it. There may also be uncertainty in the meaning, where the insertion of the preposition leaves none in the construction; for made may signify either created or compelled, and the infinitive after it, may denote either the purpose of creation, or the effect of any temporary compulsion: as, "We are made to be serviceable to others."-Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 167. "Man was made to mourn.”—Burns. was never made to cater for vanity."-Blair. The primitive word make seldom, if ever, produces a construction that is thus equivocal. The infinitive following it without to, always denotes the cffect of the making, and not the purpose of the maker; as, "He made his son Skjöld be received there as king."-North. Antiq, p. 81. But the same meaning may be conveyed when the to is used; as, "The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.' -Waller, p. 56. "Taste Ors. 12. Of the verb NEED. I incline to think, that the word need, whenever it is rightly followed by the infinitive without to, is, in reality an auxiliary of the potential mood; and that, like may, can, and must, it may properly be used, in both the present and the perfect tense, without personal inflection: as, "Ho need not go, Io need not have gone;" where, if need is a principal verb, and governs the infinitive without to, the expressions must be, "He needs not go, He needed not go, or, He has not needed go." But none of these three forms is agreeable; and the last two are never used. Wherefore, in stead of placing in my code of false syntax the numerous examples of the former kind, with which the style of our grammarians and critics has furnished me, I have exhibited many of them, in contrast with others, in the eighth and ninth observations on the Conjugation of Verbs; in which observations, the reader may see what reasons there are for supposing the word need to be sometimes an auxiliary and sometimes a principal verb. Because no other author has yet intentionally recognized the propriety of this distinction, I have gone no farther than to show on what grounds, and with what authority from usage, it might be acknowledged. If we adopt this distinction, perhaps it will be found that the regular or principal verb need always requires, or, at least, always admits, the preposition to before the following infinitive; as, "They need not to be specially indicated."-Adams's Rhet., i, 302. "We need only to remark.”—Ib., ii, 224. "A young man needed only to ask himself," &c.-Ib., i, 117. "Nor is it conceivable to me, that the lightning of a Demosthenes could need to be sped upon the wings of a semiquaver."—1b., ii, 226. "But these people need to be informed."-Campbell's Rhet., p. 220. "No man needed less to be informed."—Ib., p. 175. "We need only to mention the difficulty that arises."-Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 362. "Can there need to be argument to prove so plain a point?"-Graham's Lect. "Moral instruction needs to have a more prominent place."-Dr. Weeks. "Pride, ambition, and selfishness, need to be restrained.”—Id. Articles are sometimes omitted, where they need to be used."-Sanborn's Gram., p. 197. "Whose power needs not to be dreaded."-Wilson's Hebrew Gram., p. 93. "A workman that needeth not to be ashamed."—2 Tim., ii, 15. "The small boys may have needed to be managed according to the school system.”T. D. Woolsey. "The difficulty of making variety consistent, needs not to disturb him."-Rambler, No. 122. "A more cogent proof needs not to be introduced."-Wright's Gram., p. 66. "No person needs to be informed, that you is used in addressing a single person."-Wilcox's Gram., p. 19. "I hope I need not to advise you further."-Shak., All's Well. "Nor me, nor other god, thou needst to fear, For thou to all the heavenly host art dear."-Congreve. 64 OBS. 13.-If need is ever an auxiliary, the essential difference between an auxiliary and a principal verb, will very well account for the otherwise puzzling fact, that good writers sometimes inflect this verb, and sometimes do not; and that they sometimes use to after it, and sometimes do not. Nor do I see in what other way a grammarian can treat it, without condemning as bad English a great number of very common phrases which he cannot change for the better. On this principle, such examples as, He need not proceed," and "He needs not to proceed," may be perfectly right in either form; though Murray, Crombie,* Fisk, Ingersoll, Smith, C. Adams, and * Dr. Crombie, after copying the substance of Campbell's second Canon, that, "In doubtful cases analogy should be regarded," remarks: "For the same reason, it needs' and he dares,' are better than he neeo' and 'he dare.'"-On Etym, and Synt., p. 326. Dr. Campbell's language is somewhat stronger: "In the verbs to dare and to need, many say, in the third person present singular, dare and need, as, he need not go; he dare not do it.' Others say, dares and needs. As the first usage is exceedingly irregular, hardly any thing less than many others, pronounce both these forms to be wrong; and unanimously, (though contrary to what is perhaps the best usage,) prefer, "He needs not proceed.”—Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 180. OBS. 14.-On questions of grammar, the practice of authors ought to be of more weight, than the dogmatism of grammarians; but it is often difficult to decide well by either; because errors and contradictions abound in both. For example: Dr. Blair says, (in speaking of the persons represented by I and thou,) "Their sex needs not be marked."-Rhet., p. 79. Jamieson abridges the work, and says, "needs not to be marked."-Gram. of Rhet., p. 28. Dr. Lowth also says, "needs not be marked."-Gram., p. 21. Churchill enlarges the work, and says, "needs not to be marked."-New Gram., p. 72. Lindley Murray copies Lowth, and says, "needs not be marked." -Gram., 12mo, 2d Ed., p. 39; 23d Ed., p. 51; and perhaps all other editions. He afterwards enlarges his own work, and says, "needs not to be marked."-Octavo Gram., p. 51. But, according to Greenleaf they all express the idea ungrammatically; the only true form being, "Their sex need not be marked." See Gram. Simplified, p. 48. In the two places in which the etymology and the syntax of this verb are examined, I have cited from proper sources more than twenty examples in which to is used after it, and more than twenty others in which the verb is not inflected in the third person singular. In the latter, need is treated as an auxiliary; in the former, it is a principal verb, of the regular construction. If the principal verb need can also govern the infinitive without to, as all our grammarians have supposed, then there is a third form which is unobjectionable, and my pupils may take their choice of the three. But still there is a fourth form which nobody approves, though the hands of some great men have furnished us with examples of it: as, A figure of thought need not to detort the words from their literal sense.”—J. Q. Adams's Lectures, Vol. ii, p. 234. "Which a man need only to appeal to his own feelings immediately to evince."-Clarkson's Prize-Essay on Slavery, p. 106. 66 OBS. 15.-Webster and Greenleaf seem inclined to justify the use of dare, as well as of need, for the third person singular. Their doctrine is this: "In popular practice it is used in the third person, without the personal termination. Thus, instead of saying, 'He dares not do it;' WE generally say, 'He dare not do it.' In like manner, need, when an active verb, is regular in its inflections; as, 'A man needs more pradence.' But when intransitive, drops the personal terminations in the present tense, and is followed by a verb without the prefix to; as, ‘A man need not be uneasy.'"-Greenleaf's Grammar Simplified, p. 38; Webster's Philosophical Gram., p. 178; Improved Gram., 127. Each part of this explanation appears to me erroneous. In popular practice, one shall oftener hear, "He dares n't do it," or even, "You dares n't do it," than, “He dare not do it." But it is only in the trained practice of the schools, that he shall ever hear, “Ho needs n't do it," or, "He needs not do it." ~ If need is sometimes used without inflection, this peculiarity, or the disuse of to before the subsequent infinitive, is not a necessary result of its "intransitive" character. And as to their latent nominative, "whereof there is no account,” or, "whereof there needs no account;" their fact, of which "there is no evidence," or of which "there needs no evidence;" I judge it a remarkable phenomenon, that authors of so high pretensions, could find, in these transpositions, a nominative to "is," but none to "needs!" See a marginal note under Rule 14th, at p. 570. OBS. 16.—Of the verb SEE. This verb, whenever it governs the infinitive without to, governs also an objective noun or pronoun; as, "See me do it."- -“I saw him do it."—Murray. Whenever it is intransitive, the following infinitive must be governed by to; as, "I will see to have it done."-Comly's Gram., p. 98; Greenleaf's, 38. "How could he see to do them?"-Beauties of Shak., p. 43. In the following text, see is transitive, and governs the infinitive; but the two verbs are put so far apart, that it requires some skill in the reader to make their relation apparent: "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place," &c.-Matt., xxiv, 15. An other scripturist uses the participle, and says"standing where it ought not," &c.—Mark, xiii, 14. The Greek word is the same in both; it is a participle, agreeing with the noun for abomination. Sometimes the preposition to seems to be admitted on purpose to protract the expression: as, "Tranio, I saw her coral lips to move, And with her breath she did perfume the air."-Shak. OBS. 17.-A few other verbs, besides the eight which are mentioned in the foregoing rule and remarks, sometimes have the infinitive after them without to. W. Allen teaches, that, "The sign to is generally omitted," not only after these eight, but also after eight others; namely, "find, have, help, mark, observe, perceive, watch, and the old preterit gan, for began; and sometimes after behold and know."-Elements of Gram., p. 167. Perhaps he may have found some instances of the omis sion of the preposition after all these, but in my opinion his rule gives a very unwarrantable extension to this "irregularity," as Murray calls it. The usage belongs only to particular verbs, and to them not in all their applications. Other verbs of the same import do not in general uniform practice could authorize it."-Philosophy of Rhet., p. 175. Dare for dares I suppose to be wrong: but if need is an auxiliary of the potential mood, to use it without inflection, is neither “irregular," nor at all inconsistent with the foregoing canon. But the former critic notices these verbs a second time, thus: "He dare not,' 'he need not,' may be justly pronounced solecisms, for he dares,' he needs.'”—Crombie, on Etym, and Synt., p. 378. He also says, "The verbs bid, dare, need, make, see, hear. feel, let, are not followed by the sign of the infinitive."-Ib., p. 277. And yet he writes thus: "These are truths, of which, I am persuaded, the author, to whom I allude, needs not to be reminded."-Ib,, p. 123. So Dr. Bullions declares against need in the singular, by putting down the following example as bad English: "He need not be in so much haste."-Bullions's E. Gram., p. 134. Yet he himself writes thus: "A name more appropriate than the term neuter, need not be dosired."—Ib., p. 196. A school-boy may see the inconsistency of this. admit the same idiom. But, by a license for the most part peculiar to the poets, the preposition Come tripping to the room where thou didst lie."-Milton. Ethereal trumpet from on high 'gan blow.”—Id., P. L., vi, 60. "What OBS. 18.-After have, help, and find, the infinitive sometimes occurs without the preposition to, but much oftener with it; as, "When enumerating objects which we wish to have appear distinct."-Kirkham's Gram., p. 222. 'Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth."-Ld. Bacon. wilt thou have me to do?"-Acts, ix, 6. "He will have us to acknowledge him."-Scougal, p. 102. "I had to walk all the way."-Lennie's Gram., p. 85. "Would you have them let go then? No."-Walker's Particles, p. 248. According to Allen's rule, this question is ambiguous; but the learned author explains it in Latin thus: "Placet igitur eos dimitti? Minimé." That is, "Would you have them dismissed then? No." Had he meant, "Would you have them to let go then?" he would doubtless have said so. Kirkham, by adding help to Murray's list, enumerates nine verbs which he will have to exclude the sign of the infinitive; as, "Help me do it."-Gram., p. 188. But good writers sometimes use the particle to after this verb; as, "And Danby's matchless impudence helped to support the knave."-DRYDEN: Joh. Dict., w. Help. Dr. Priestley says, "It must, I suppose, be according to the Scotch idiom that Mrs. Macaulay omits it after the verb help: 'To help carry on the new measures of the court.' History, Vol. iv, p. 150."—Priestley's Gram., p. 133. "You will find the difficulty disappear in a short time."-Cobbett's English Gram., ¶ 16. "We shall always find this distinction obtain."-Blair's Rhet., p. 245. Here the preposition to might have been inserted with propriety. Without it, a plural noun will render the construction equivocal. The sentence, "You will find the difficulties disappear in a short time," will probably be understood to mean, "You will find that the difficulties disappear in a short time." "I do not find him reject his authority."-Johnson's Gram. Com., p. 167. Here too the preposition might as well have been inserted. But, as this use of the infinitivo is a sort of Latinism, some critics would choose to say, "I do not find that he rejects his authority." "Cyrus was extremely glad to find them have such sentiments of religion."-Rollin, ii, 117. Here the infinitivo may be varied either by the participle or by the indicative; as, "to find them having,” or, “to find they had." Of the three expressions, the last, I think, is rather the best. OBS. 19. When two or more infinitives are connected in the same construction, one preposition sometimes governs them both or all; a repetition of the particle not being always necessary, unless we mean to make the terms severally emphatical. This fact is one evidence that to is not a necessary part of each infinitive verb, as some will have it to be. Examples: "Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father."-Matt., viii, 21. "To shut the door, means, To throw or cast the door to."-Tooke's D. P., ii, 105. "Most authors expect the printer To spell, point, and digest their copy, that it may be intelligible to the reader.”—Printer's Grammar. "I'll not be made a soft and dull-eyed fool, To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield."—Shak. Ors. 20.-An infinitive that explains an other, may sometimes be introduced without the prep osition to; because, the former having it, the construction of the latter is made the same by this kind of apposition: as, "The most accomplished way of using books at present is, To serve them as some do lords; learn their titles, and then brag of their acquaintance."-SWIFT: Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 166. OBS. 21. After than or as, the sign of the infinitive is sometimes required, and sometimes excluded; and in some instances we can either insert it or not, as we please. The latter term of a comparison is almost always more or less elliptical; and as the nature of its cllipsis depends on the structure of the former term, so does the necessity of inserting or of omitting the sign of the infinitive. Examples: "No desire is more universal than [is the desire] to be exalted and honoured."-Kames, El. of Crit., i, 197. "The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as [is the difficully] to find a friend worth dying for."-Id., Art of Thinking, p. 42. "It is no more in one's power to love or not to love, than [it is in one's power] to be in health or out of order."Ib., p. 45. "Men are more likely to be praised into virtue, than [they are likely] to be railed out of vice."-Ib., p. 48. "It is more tolerable to be always alone, than [it is tolerable] never to be so."-Ib., p. 26. "Nothing [is] more easy than to do mischief [is easy]: nothing [is] more difficult than to suffer without complaining" [is difficult].-Ib., p. 46. Or: "than [it is easy] to do mischief:" &c., "than [it is difficult] to suffer," &c. 'It is more agreeable to the nature of most men to follow than [it is agreeable to their nature] to lead."-Ib., p. 55. In all these examples, the preposition to is very properly inserted; but what excludes it from the former term of a comparison, will exclude it from the latter, if such governing verb be understood there: as, "You no more heard me say those words, than [you heard me] talk Greek." It may be equally proper to say, "We choose rather to lead than follow," or, "We choose rather to lead than to follow."Art of Thinking, p. 37. The meaning in either case is, "We choose to lead rather than we choose to follow." In the following example, there is perhaps an ellipsis of to before cite: "I need do nothing more than simply cite the explicit declarations," &c.-Gurney's Peculiarities, p. 4. So in these: Nature did no more than furnish the power and means.”—Sheridan's Elocution, p. 147. "To beg, than work, he better understands; Or we perhaps might take him off thy hands."-Pope's Odyssey, xvii, 260. Ors. 22.-It has been stated, in Obs. 16th on Rule 17th, that good writers are apt to shun a repetition of any part common to two or more verbs in the same sentence; and among the examples there cited is this: They mean to, and will, hear patiently."-Salem Register. So onc might say, "Can a man arrive at excellence, who has no desire to ?"—" I do not wish to go, nor expect to."-"Open the door, if you are going to." Answer: "We want to, and try to, but can't." Such ellipses of the infinitive after to, are by no means uncommon, especially in conversation; nor do they appear to me to be always reprehensible, since they prevent repetition, and may contribute to brevity without obscurity. But Dr. Bullions has lately thought proper to condemn them; for such is presumed to have been the design of the following note: "To, the sign of the infinitive, should never be used for the infinitive itself. Thus, 'I have not written, and I do not intend to,' is a colloquial vulgarism for, 'I have not written, and I do not intend to write." Bullions's Analyt. and Pract. Gram., p. 179. His "Exercises to be corrected," here, are these: "Be sure to write yourself and tell him to. And live as God designed me to."-Ib., 1st Ed., p. 180. It being manifest, that to cannot "be used for"-(that is, in place of-) what is implied after it, this is certainly a very awkward way of hinting "there should never be an ellipsis of the infinitive after to." But, from the false syntax furnished, this appears to have been the meaning intended. The examples are severally faulty, but not for the reason suggested-not because "to" is used for "write" or "live"-not, indeed, for any one reason common to the three-but because, in the first, "to write" and "have not written," have nothing in common which we can omit; in the second, the mood of "tell" is doubtful, and, without a comma after "yourself," we cannot precisely know the meaning; in the third, the mood, the person, and the number of "live," are all unknown. See Note 9th to Rule 17th, above; and Note 2d to the General Rule, below." OBS. 23. Of some infinitives, it is hard to say whether they are transitive or intransitive; as, "Well, then, let us proceed; we have other forced marches to make; other enemies to subdue; more laurels to acquire; and more injuries to avenge."-BONAPARTE: Columbian Orator, p. 136. These, without ellipsis, are intransitive; but relatives may be inserted. IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION. FALSE SYNTAX UNDER RULE XIX. INFINITIVES AFTER BID, DARE, FEEL, HEAR, LET, &c. "I dare not to proceed so hastily, lest I should give offence.”—Murray's Exercises, p. 63. [FORMULE.-Not proper, because the preposition to is inserted before proceed, which follows the active verb dare. But, according to Rule 19th, "The active verbs, bid, dare, feel, hear, let, make, need, see, and their parti ciples, usually take the infinitive after them without the preposition to;" and this is an instance in which the finite verb should immediately govern the infinitive. Therefore, the to should be omitted; thus, “I dare not proceed so hastily," &c.] "Their character is formed, and made appear."-Butler's Analogy, p. 115. [FORMULE-Not proper, because the preposition to is not inserted between made and appear, the verb is made being passive. But, according to Obs. 5th and 10th on Rule 19th, those verbs which in the active form govern the infinitive without to, do not so govern it when they are made passive, except the verb let. Therefore, to should be here inserted; thus, "Their character is formed, and made to appear."] "Let there be but matter and opportunity offered, and you shall see them quickly to revive again."-Wisdom of the Ancients, p. 53. "It has been made appear, that there is no presumption against a revelation."-Butler's Analogy, p. 252. "MANIFEST, v. t. To reveal; to make to appear; to show plainly." Webster's American Dict. "Let him to reign like unto good Aurelius, or let him to bleed like unto Socrates."-Kirkham's Gram., p. 169. "To sing I could not; to complain I durst not."-S. Fothergill. "If T. M. be not so frequently heard pray by them.”Barclay's Works, iii, 132. "How many of your own church members were never heard pray?" -Ib., iii, 133. Yea, we are bidden pray one for another."-Ib., iii, 145. "He was made believe that neither the king's death, nor imprisonment would help him."-Sheffield's Works, ii, "I felt a chilling sensation to creep over me."-Inst., p. 188. "I dare to say he has not got home yet."-lb. "We sometimes see bad men to be honoured."-Ib. "I saw him to move.' -Felch's Comprehensive Gram., p. 62. For see thou, ah! see thou a hostile world to raise its terrours."-Kirkham's Gram., p. 167. "But that he make him to rehearse so."-Lily's Gram., "Let us to rise."-Fowle's True Eng. Gram., p. 41. 281. p. XV. "Scripture, you know, exhorts us to it; Bids us to seek peace, and ensue it.""-Swift's Poems, p. 336. "Who bade the mud from Dives' wheel To spurn the rags of Lazarus? Come, brother, in that dust we'll kneel, Confessing Heaven that ruled it thus."-Christmas Book. |