The expressions should be,
"This house to _be_ let;" "Horses and carriages to _be_ let;" "much
business to _be performed_."
9. AMBIGUITY.--"Nothing is more to be desired than wisdom." Not
_literally_ correct, for _wisdom_ is certainly more to be desired than
_nothing_; but, as a figurative expression, it is well established and
unexceptionable.
"A crow is a large black bird:"--a large, _black--bird_.
"I saw a horse--fly through the window:"--I saw a _horsefly_.
"I saw a ship gliding under full sail through a spy glass." I saw,
through a spy glass, a ship gliding under full sail.
"One may see how the world goes with half an eye." One may see with half
an eye, how the world goes.
"A great stone, that I happened to find, after a long search, by the sea
shore, served me for an anchor." This arrangement of the members and
circumstances of this sentence, confines the speaker's _search to the
sea shore;_ whereas, he meant, "A _large stone, which,_ after a long
search, I happened _to find by the sea shore,_ served me for an anchor."
"I shall only notice those called personal pronouns." I shall notice
_only_ those called personal pronouns.
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