3.  For the object of an affection or passion; as, “He loves to ride.”—­“I desire to hear her speak again.”—­Shale. “If we wish to avoid important error.”—­Tooke’s D. P., ii, 3.  “Who rejoice to do evil.”—­Prov., ii, 14.  “All agreeing in earnestness to see him.”—­Shak.  “Our curiosity is raised to know what lies beyond.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 335.

4.  For the cause of an affection or passion; as, “I rejoice to hear it.”—­“By which I hope to have laid a foundation,” &c.—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 34.  “For he made me mad, to see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet.”—­Beauties of Shak., p. 118.  “Thou didst eat strange flesh, which some did die to look on.”—­Ib., p. 182.  “They grieved to see their best allies at variance.”—­Rev. W. Allen’s Gram., p. 165.

5.  For the subject of a proposition, or the chief term in such subject; as, “To steal is sinful.”—­“To do justice and judgement, is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.”—­Prov., xxi, 3. “To do RIGHT, is, to do that which is ordered to be done.”—­Tooke’s D. P., ii, 7. “To go to law to plague a neighbour, has in it more of malice, than of love to justice.”—­Seattle’s Mor.  Sci., i, 177.

6.  For the predicate of a proposition, or the chief term in such predicate; as, “To enjoy is to obey.”—­Pope.  “The property of rain is to wet, and fire, to burn.”—­Beauties of Shak., p. 15.  “To die is to be banished from myself.”—­Ib., p. 82.  “The best way is, to slander Valentine.”—­Ib., p. 83.  “The highway of the upright is to depart from evil.”—­Prov., xvi, 17.

7.  For a coming event, or what will be; as, “A mutilated structure soon to fall.”—­Cowper. “He being dead, and I speedily to follow him.”—­Tooke’s D. P., ii, 111.  “She shall rejoice in time to come.”—­Prov., xxxi, 25.  “Things present, or things to come.”—­1 Cor., iii, 22.

8.  For a necessary event, or what ought to be; as, “It is to be remembered.”—­“It is never to be forgotten.”—­Tooke’s D. P., ii, 2.  “An oversight much to be deplored.”—­Ib., ii, 460.  “The sign is not to be used by itself, or to stand alone; but is to be joined to some other term.”—­Ib., ii, 372.  “The Lord’s name is to be praised.”—­Ps., cxiii, 3.

9.  For what is previously suggested by another word; as, “I have faith to believe.”—­“The glossarist did well here not to yield to his inclination.”—­Tooke’s D. P., ii, 329.  “It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord.”—­Ps., xcii, 1. “It is as sport to a fool to do mischief.”—­Prov., x, 23.  “They have the gift to know it.”—­Shak. “We have no remaining occupation but to take care of the public.”—­Art of Thinking, p. 52.