“Please insert points so as to make sense.”—­Davis’s Gram., p. 123.  “I have known Lords abbreviate almost the half of their words.”—­Cobbett’s English Gram., 153.  “We shall find the practice perfectly accord with the theory.”—­Knight, on the Greek Alphabet, p. 23.  “But it would tend to obscure, rather than elucidate the subject.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., p. 95.  “Please divide it for them as it should be.”—­Willett’s Arith., p. 193.  “So as neither to embarrass, nor weaken the sentence.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 116; Murray’s Gram., 322.  “Carry her to his table, to view his poor fare,[413] and hear his heavenly discourse.”—­SHERLOCK:  Blair’s Rhet., p. 157; Murray’s Gram., 347.  “That we need not be surprised to find this hold in eloquence.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 174.  “Where he has no occasion either to divide or explain.”—­Ib., p. 305.  “And they will find their pupils improve by hasty and pleasant steps.”—­Russell’s Gram., Pref., p. 4.  “The teacher however will please observe,” &c.—­Infant School Gram., p. 8.  “Please attend to a few rules in what is called syntax.”—­Ib., p. 128.  “They may dispense with the laws to favor their friends, or secure their office.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 39.  “To take back a gift, or break a contract, is a wanton abuse.”—­Ib., p. 41.  “The legislature has nothing to do, but let it bear its own price.”—­Ib., p. 315.  “He is not to form, but copy characters.”—­Rambler, No. 122.  “I have known a woman make use of a shoeing-horn.”—­Spect., No. 536.  “Finding this experiment answer, in every respect, their wishes.”—­Sandford and Merton, p. 51.  “In fine let him cause his argument conclude in the term of the question.”—­Barclay’s Works, Vol. iii, p. 443.

   “That he permitted not the winds of heaven
    Visit her face too roughly.”—­Shakspeare, Hamlet.

RULE XIX.—­INFINITIVES.  The active verbs, bid, dare, feel, hear, let, make, need, see, and their participles, usually take the Infinitive after them without the preposition to:  as, “If he bade thee depart, how darest thou stay?”—­“I dare not let my mind be idle as I walk in the streets.”—­Cotton Mather.

   “Thy Hector, wrapt in everlasting sleep,
    Shall neither hear thee sigh, nor see thee weep.”
        —­Pope’s Homer.

OBSERVATIONS ON RULE XIX.