To read of Abigail Adams’ lengthy separation from her family, her difficult travels, and her constant battles with illness is to feel intensely how harsh life was even for the so-called aristocracy of Revolutionary times.
To read of
Reading about
Having read about
Once one reads of
To have read of
曼哈顿讲平行那章说,linking verbs are parallelism markers. To read is to feel
[infinitive phrase] is [infinitive phrase]
E begins with To, but have read creates a disjunction of tenses by placing the action of reading in the past while to feel is still in the present. The question is of middle difficulty
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