I expected to have found
him."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 126. "There are several smaller faults,
which I at first intended to have enumerated."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 246.
"Antithesis, therefore, may, on many occasions, be employed to advantage,
in order to strengthen the impression which we intend that any object
should make."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 168. "The girl said, if her master would
but have let her had money, she might have been well long ago."--See
_Priestley's Gram._, p. 127. "Nor is there the least ground to fear, that
we should be cramped here within too narrow limits."--_Campbell's Rhet._,
p. 163; _Murray's Gram._, i, 360. "The Romans, flushed with success,
expected to have retaken it."--_Hooke's Hist._, p. 37. "I would not have
let fallen an unseasonable pleasantry in the venerable presence of Misery,
to be entitled to all the wit that ever Rabelais scattered."--STERNE:
_Enfield's Speaker_, p. 54. "We expected that he would have arrived last
night."--_Inst._ p. 192. "Our friends intended to have met us."--_Ib._ "We
hoped to have seen you."--_Ib._ "He would not have been allowed to have
entered."--_Ib._

UNDER NOTE XV.--PERMANENT PROPOSITIONS.

"Cicero maintained that whatsoever was useful was good."--"I observed that
love constituted the whole moral character of God."--_Dwight_. "Thinking
that one gained nothing by being a good man."--_Voltaire_. "I have already
told you that I was a gentleman."--_Fontaine_. "If I should ask, whether
ice and water were two distinct species of things."--_Locke_. "A stranger
to the poem would not easily discover that this was verse."--_Murray's
Gram._, 12mo, p. 260. "The doctor affirmed, that fever always produced
thirst."--_Inst._, p. 192. "The ancients asserted, that virtue was its own
reward."--_Ib._ "They should not have repeated the error, of insisting that
the infinitive was a mere noun."--_Diversions of Purley_, Vol. i, p. 288.
"It was observed in Chap. III. that the distinctive _or_ had a double
use."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 154. "Two young gentlemen, who have made a
discovery that there was no God."--_Swift_.

RULE XVIII.--INFINITIVES.

The Infinitive Mood is governed in general by the preposition TO, which
commonly connects it to a finite verb: as, "I desire TO _learn_."--_Dr.
Adam_. "Of me the Roman people have many pledges, which I must strive, with
my utmost endeavours, TO _preserve_, TO _defend_, TO _confirm_, and TO
_redeem_."--_Duncan's Cicero_, p. 41