6. These harmless delusions tend to make us happy.
+Explanation+.--_Happy_ completes _make_ and relates to _us_.
7. Wounds made by words are hard to heal.
+Explanation+.--The infinitive phrase is here used adverbially to modify
the adjective _hard_. _To heal = to be healed_.
8. The representative Yankee, selling his farm, wanders away to seek new
lands, to clear new cornfields, to build another shingle palace, and
again to sell off and wander.
9. These apples are not ripe enough to eat.
+Explanation+.--The infinitive phrase is here used adverbially to modify
the adverb _enough_. _To eat = to be eaten_.
The +infinitive phrase+ may be used as +subject+ or +complement.+
10. To be good is to be great.
\To \to
\ be \good \ be \ great
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/ \ | is \ / \
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Explanation.--_To_, in each of these phrases, shows no relation--it serves
merely to introduce. The complements _good_ and _great_ are adjectives used
abstractly, having no noun to relate to.
11. To bear our fate is to conquer it.
12. To be entirely just in our estimate of others is impossible.
13. The noblest vengeance is to forgive.
14. He seemed to be innocent.
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