English Particles, p. 165.  “They were let go in peace.”—­Acts, 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 Spelling-Book.  “Which soon made the young chap hasten down.”—­Ib. 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 made; 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.